Despite losing the title on the last hole, the golfer received a check for US$870,000, after finishing third in the second major of the year. A succulent revival which softens the bitter outcome of the national tournament. In addition, he will be in the Top 50 of the ranking, which allows him to qualify for the US Open and The Open, the other greats of the year.
Guillermo Pereira couldn’t celebrate in the United States. Mito was one step closer to being crowned champion at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma after playing on the final day of the PGA Championship, the second Major of the season, as exclusive leader.
However, on the final hole, he squandered the opportunity to celebrate, having sent the ball into the water and failed to get, at least, the bogey that put him in the tiebreaker. In the end, he finished with -4 and was ranked T3, one stroke behind Will Zalatoris and Justin Thomas, who played in the playoffs that made multi-champion Thomas the winner.
His remarkable performance on the course, against the world’s best in the field, was not enough to win him the precious and historic Rodman Wanamaker Trophy, in honor of the promoter of this Association of Professional Golfers born in 1916. Although, in any case received a gentle encouragement.
Although the prizes are not officially announced, as is the case in tennis, the specialized press in the United States revealed that the 2022 PGA Championship distributed $15 million, of which $2.7 million went to the winner of the tournament. A figure $600,000 higher than that received by Californian Phil Mickelson, after winning first place in the 2021 edition.
Mickelson was one of the main absentees from this competition, having withdrawn from the tournament and continued his break, having supported the idea of creating a new non-PGA Tour. However, despite losing the defending champion, players like number one Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Cameron Smith and Thomas the Monarch made this tournament just as competitive.
Mito, for his part, will receive a sum of 870,000 dollars to be third, or approximately 780 million pesos. Same number as Cameron Young, who finished in the same position, will receive both T3s. In addition, he will be in the top 50 in the world rankings, which allows him to qualify directly for the remaining major tournaments of the season, the US Open and the Open Championship.
This was Mito’s second participation in a Major of the PGA, even though it’s the first time he’s done it as a professional. The last time he did was at the US Open in 2019, when he was not yet part of the tour and entered the list of competitors thanks to a special invitation for these players of projection and two years later he showed that they weren’t wrong. doing it .
“I had never played in a final group in a Major and with so many people, so I’m very happy with what I did,” the national, who was making his PGA Tour debut this season, said on Saturday. In the end, Pereira added to the mythos by overcoming the pressure to compete against the best in the world, showing that he can easily compete with them.
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