Mito Pereira can’t face the morning chill and stays out of the cup at The Players

This edition of Players will be remembered for several years, as the development of the so-called “major fifth” was traumatic at best. Haunted by a hostile climate, the tournament had to continuously suspend actions and this Sunday morning, the players have just completed the second round. Mito Pereira left around seven in the morning (local time) and had to face difficult terrain and intense cold . The result wasn’t the best, as he scored a +5 card and was kicked out of the cup.

The first hole postcards were amazing. The players regrouped in vain, with woolen jackets, collars, hats and gloves . The cold attacked them all and the six degrees that were above the TPC Sawgrass complicated the powerful shots and the Putting precise. The hands did not react well and despite the fact that the rain and the wind were no longer present, nature did not allow everything to work normally.

And Mito fell victim to the Florida climate. Yesterday he only managed to play two holes in front of the lack of light forced him to stop, so that day the journey began at hole three. The problem was that the problems started quickly, signature bogies in four, seven and nine . Three penalties that left him already very complicated in the general table, since the par reached in the first round had not given him much cushion.

A bad run that continued in the eleventh and fourteenth, completely burying the aspirations of the native of Pirque. Despite this blow facing the famous island of 17 with attitude, and was awarded .

A huge tee shot, which left him just twelve feet from the flag and a healthy round of applause. deserved in a round where more than 50 balls ended up submerged in this hole .

So the putt was fine and Pereira got his only birds of the day, the one who left him a card of five moves above par, far from the cut which is projected at +1. Myth lost over thirty positions that day , a victim of the cold and no doubt the constant breaks that the tournament has suffered. This Players is not only a golf challenge, it also has a lot of survival, physical and mental.

Joaquín Niemann, for his part, has fixed his classification in the third round of the Players. Obvious after his excellent first lap, but he still had to confirm. And to do that, he had to go through a day full of movements.

In the first five holes he had two birds And two bogies showing that the weather conditions made a normal visit to the pitch very difficult. Another punishment came at flag eight and fifteen but nothing so terrible, as Joaco had managed to counter.

The problem was the closure, where Niemann signed bogies 17 and 18 , ultimately remaining with a four-under-par card and in the top fifteen of the tournament. During the afternoon, he will play the third round of the tournament. Joaco is excited about attacking the summit.