Both national golfers had a tough day and dropped to eighth place. However, they are a few strokes from the top, after a lap in which the wind has been the protagonist for several passages.
Thursday’s session was historic for national golf. Joaquin Niemann (2nd) and Guillermo Pereira (3rd) they achieved something that had never happened on the PGA: that two Chileans were in the top 3 of a maximum circuit tournament after one round. Therefore, the expectation of what the two might do on the second day of the RBC Legacy She was tall. And although they didn’t repeat what happened on the first day, his chances remain intact, having overcome a difficult day in Hilton Heads, where the wind was the protagonist with gusts over 30 km/h. The two finished Friday with -5 in the aggregate and tied for eighth place, three strokes behind the leader, the American Patrick Canlay.
Joaco was the first to jump on the course at Harbor Town Golf Links. He did it from the 10th hole and had a quiet first half round, but not as spectacular as day one. started a birds on the par 4 of 13, but on the next one he made a bogey. From that point on, there was not much movement until flag number two. There, the man from Talagan managed to discount a blow on the ground after an extraordinary previous blow, which he almost took from the trees.
In the last holes, Joaco was not well. Of them bogies consecutive in the six and seven complicated it. In the first, he failed with the puttwhile in the second he started with a shot that hit the bunker. Of the remaining two flags, Niemann could not discount, so He closed the second round with 72 hits (+1), racking up 137 hits (-5) on the general draw. An irregular performance, but which leaves him with many opportunities for the weekend.
At the same time as the current world number 15 came to an end, Mito Pereira has started his participation. The native of Pirque showed from the outset that what happened on Thursday was no coincidence. A birds on the second hole he continued. Of course, the ascent was slowed down a bit in the fifth, where he made one more shot in a par five, and in the tenth, with another bogey.
Despite difficulties, the national golfer reduced again at flag 13 and managed to save the pair incredibly at 15 after sending the ball into the water in one of his shots. While in 17 and 18 there was nothing to achieve two separate the birds, ending with 71 hits. But, beyond not having finalized them, the important thing is that he is also delighted to get his first PGA.
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