After a week of rest, the national golfer is preparing to participate in the event which brings together important personalities and distributes an invitation to the major next week for whoever wins the title and has not yet managed to qualify.
After his 27th place at the Valspar Championship , Mito Pereira resumes filming after a week off. Starting this Thursday, the national golfer will play the Valero Texas Open, a tournament that brings together important personalities from the PGA, such as Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, current champion Jordan Spieth and Mexican Abraham Ancer , among others. The competition celebrates its 100th anniversary in this edition.
From 2:47 p.m. Chilean time, the world number 97 will make the jump to TPC San Antonio. He will do it from the 10th hole and will be accompanied by American Kevin Streelman and Briton Aaron Rai . While on Friday, the start with the same players will be from flag number one, at 7:52 a.m.
In its first full season, the Pirque native just surpassed his first million dollars in earnings and is currently ranked 39th in the FedEx Cup, which is the ranking that measures the performance of the season.
The San Antonio tournament also offers the final invitation to the Augusta Masters to the winner who doesn’t have enough rankings to register, a situation that could benefit Mito. Besides, previous bets put the pupil of Eduardo Miquel among the 20 candidates to win the tournament.
With a field of 144 players, the contest awards 500 points to FedEx and distributes US$7.9 million in prizes. Of these, US$1,386,000 will go to the winner.
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