Niemann and Pereira celebrate at Valderrama: Torque GC win in Andalucia and add third title of the year to LIV Golf

The Chileans lived a round day at LIV Golf. This Sunday was the third and final date of the prestigious Real Club Valderrama de Andalucía competition. Joaquin Niemann And Guillermo Pereira left behind Saturday shocks and they achieved an important victory in Spanish territory, because together with Torque GC they won the team tournament.

In the first competition held after the Arab League signed peace with the PGA Tour, the Chilean team, which also includes Colombian Juan Sebastián Muñoz and Spaniard David Puig, secured their third title of the season.

Torque started the date two strokes behind leaders RangeGoats and Crushers, who eventually finished second and third respectively. However, the good performances of its members allowed them to climb to the top, adding a total of -16 in the poll.

SO, they earned their second straight win and third of the year at LIV Golf (Orlando and Washington, the latter the day before). The cast of Chileans walks in second place of the general table of the year and they are exceeded only by 4As.

Both started the day in twenty-first position, after a poor performance in the second round. Joaco, who is his team’s captain, excelled with birdies, subtracting points from his ballot on holes 4, 8, 11 and 18. However, he suffered a bogey on the seventh. In this way, the man from Talagant managed to position himself as the tenth best golfer in the contest. After 211 hits, he scored -2 ​​on his board and solidified in the top ten .

As, the native of Pirque positioned himself in fifteenth place in the individual competition, equaling the pair on the pitch, with 213 clubs. Mito started the day following the line of what was done in the previous one. He struggled early on with a bogey in the third. Thereafter, he seemed to find his way with a birdie on the fifth, but struggled on the next two holes. First with a double bogey, then with a new bogey.

The panorama was complex, but it was restored thanks to a series of birdies. The Chilean placed tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth, managing to climb positions and finish in the top 15.

Finally, the podium was completed by three Americans. The champion was Talor Gooch (-12), who won his third title of the year on the Arab circuit . Brynson DeChambeau, who started the day in the lead, was one stick behind his compatriot (-11). Meanwhile, the third was Brooks Koepka (-9). The next day of LIV Golf will take place the following week at Centurion Golf, a venue located in London, England.