The Colombian golfer confirms the arrival of Mito Pereira at LIV Golf

Guillermo Pereira’s future in golf is looking increasingly clear. After the Telegraph took for granted Mito’s arrival at LIV Golf on Thursday The Colombian Juan Sebastián Muñoz has confirmed the arrival of the Chilean who will accompany Joaquín Niemann in the competition which has the support of the Saudi capital .

He did so amid explanations to justify his change from the PGA Tour. “This topic started in August, and in the beginning there was a lot of internal debate: what am I looking for in golf, what am I looking for in life? . A lot of players started leaving for the LIV, there were fewer and fewer Latinos left on the PGA Tour and there were fewer and fewer members of my team left, so I made the decision to keep what I love in golf, this community that I stayed in golf with,” explained to the newspaper El Tiempo .

“The weather also had an influence: now that I’m going to be a dad soon, it will guarantee me to be more at home. It will also allow me to stop putting pressure on myself, playing for so long sometimes without meaning. You want to win every week, although there isn’t much difference between a big event and a small event. It will re-energize me for all the events that I will play. I am happy. Relax, more than anything, for what’s to come, and ready to start in Mexico “, he completed.

Then he revealed that the influence of Joaquín Niemann had been decisive in making this decision. “The first contact occurred, above all, through Joaquín Niemann. I wouldn’t have been interested in LIV if it hadn’t been for the possibility of forming a team with my golfing friends, something I never imagined possible. It didn’t exist a year ago “, he exposed.

He also indicated that “Joaquín is playing well and they offer him to be captain of the team and offer him a large sum of money. I left the matter in his hands: if he stayed on the PGA Tour , well, I wouldn’t leave, and if he did, as he did, well, there was a good chance that I would leave. When he decides to leave, he starts looking for a way for me to be part of this team. ”.

And in the midst of it all, he confirmed Pereira’s arrival at LIV Golf. “Then Mito (Pereira) He got engaged, Joaco was already gone, Carlos (Ortiz) was already gone, Abraham (Ancer) was already gone, so I was left alone and started wondering what I was going to do ”.

He also admitted that he misses his friends while playing the President’s Cup: “I had set myself the goal of playing this tournament with Joaco, with Cam Smith, with Abraham, but many of them had already been to LIV . With those who were there we shared a very special moment and we did everything to fight. I think we got it. Then came a comment from Mito, “Imagine doing this for people you really care about.” The concept is very fun. It had an influence. But in the heat, when I beat number one, I thought my mission was to stay on the PGA Tour and see how high I could dream, but then I realized I wasn’t as motivated. from within to achieve individual glories. ”.

For the moment, and in the absence of formalization, everything indicates that the group of friends will be able to meet in Mayakoba, Playa del Carmen (Mexico), between February 24 and 26.