Mito Pereira performs well at LIV Golf in Jeddah

Mito Pereira continues to show that he is at a good level and closes LIV Golf in Jeddah in the top 10 of the ranking. The Pircano had three even days and although he was unable to compete for the title, his numbers continue to help Torque GC in the team rankings. Individually, he finished in seventh place in the competition organized in Saudi Arabia.

On Sunday, the Chilean recorded a score of -11. I had five birds and one bogey. In any case, he was not very far from the champion, who this time was Brooks Koepka, who was -14.

Joaquín Niemann’s performance was similar, but he finished a few places lower. Talagante is closed with -10. Until Saturday, he was tied with Pereira in the standings. However, on the third day of the tournament, he lost a few places. Even if he had six birds A bogey and one double bogey They liquidated their aspirations to stay higher. He nevertheless managed to stay in tenth place.

This 2023 has been an irregular year for Niemann. The athlete admitted that LIV Golf was complex in the current course. “There is strong competition. If there was no competition, I would have already won every tournament in LIV. There are very good players and you have to play golf well to win,” he noted a few months ago in a conversation with Sporty .

The exhibition of the two Chileans allowed their team to continue in the advanced positions. Indeed, in Jeddah, the Torque GC finished in fourth place. -28 marked the total score for the Spanish-speaking team. On this occasion what was shown by the Colombian Sebastián Muñoz and the Spaniard David Puig was not the best. Regardless, they remain in third place annually, with a chance to challenge for the title in the final competition of the year, which will take place in the United States.

In the annual individual rankings, the highest placed team member is Mito Pereira, who is in eighth place. A few places further is Muñoz, eleventh. With their performances, both carried the weight of the group’s campaign which involves national athletes. Niemann, of course, also has a fundamental role, since he is the captain. The one born in Talagente is twenty-first years old.

At the moment, Torque is only surpassed by Crushers and 4Aces. In 2023, Santiago’s team was champion in Orlando, Washington, Andalusia and Greenbrier. The last meeting of the year will take place at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami. On this day, golfers will not play individually, but will always enrich their franchises.

After this stay in North America, Pereira and Niemann They will board a flight to Santiago to participate in the Pan American Games where they are the big favorites to win the most important medals of the competition. The Chilean team is closely studying the possibility of obtaining medals with them. In fact, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the man from Pirque almost made it to the podium in a breathtaking definition, in which China’s Pan Cheng-Tsung ultimately won.