The golfer from Talagan completed his course with a card of the day of -4 which allowed him to climb in the rankings. In any case, he was far from the leaders of the competition.
Joaquín Niemann can leave the Open Championship feeling good after his performance. The Chilean battled the challenges of the St. Andrews terrain, like wind and hills, to record his best run this Sunday with a -4 card.
With that, he managed to leave the downsides of Saturday behind him, during which he even recorded a double bogey that took away much of what he had managed to cut.
This Sunday, participation was calm for the Chilean, registering pairs in the first four holes. Then came the birds. The first flag he managed to leave under par was number 5, completing the required 597 yards in just four strokes. In the next, he took his partial card to -2 after putting the ball in three clubs in the demanding par 4 from 400 yards .
His first complication appeared on hole 9. There, the Chilean present in the last Major of the season had to battle the green and ended up completing the required 351 yards with one shot too many, recording the first bogey of the day.
but Niemann’s spirits did not waver. Now with nothing left to lose, the man from Talagan took risks to try to move up the rankings and ended up collecting birds on flags 10, 12 and 14, managing to put his card with a result of -4, thus surpassing the -3 he had totaled on Thursday.
Of course, in the end, he had to suffer again. Like yesterday, the 17th hole, par 4 of 499 yards, again complicated the national representative who ended up scoring a new bogey.
But in the end, Niemann was able to leave the lawn of St. Andrews with joy, because on the last hole he scored a new birds with which he ended his participation in The Open with an accumulated card in the four days of -4 which allowed him to climb to the T53 position among the 83 competitors who made the cut on Friday .
At the end of the tournament, the Australian Cameron Smith ended up imposing himself in the definition for the title of the Old Course of St. Andrews. The oceanic finished the test with a card of -20, one stroke less than those achieved by the American Cameron Young. For his part, the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy was relegated to third place.
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