Different day for the two Delaware national golfers. While the Pirque man closed the first round with +3, the Talagante native launched into the fight for the tournament thanks to a birdie from 17 yards.
The penultimate stage of the PGA season has arrived. The BMW Championship started with a very busy first day and counted the two Chileans among the golfers in search of the trophy in Delaware. At first, Mito hit a round of three over par and Niemann closed with two strokes below the requirements of the course .
Thus, the national delegation is in different situations facing the second day of the tournament and the end of the playoffs in general. While the talagantino is positioned in the upper part of the BMW and has already has virtually ensured its presence in the TOUR championship the native of Pirque was very low in the table, complicating his eventual entry into the group of the 30 best of the year which allows him to play the last tournament of the season.
Niemann’s good position is due to an excellent first lap. started in the afternoon and at the first flag of the day he already got a birdie . A success that was reduced by a bogey that came in the next hole.
From then on, he went through a section where there were not many emotions, in addition to a birdie at flag five and a bogey at hole 10. But on hole 11, the magic of the 23-year-old Chilean reappeared.
It was one of the postcards from the first day of the BMW Championship. The winner of two PGA tournaments separated 17 meters from the hole . Logic suggested the situation was painted for an approach shot and a sure par, but Niemann did his thing. He hit with precision and the ball went in perfectly . Explosive applause and a card that was one under par.
From there, he came back to stagnate on par with the pair, unable to generate changes in his card. Something that yes, changed in the last breath of the day. He punished the court again at 18 minutes and got a -2 card, which puts him among the best players in the event, five strokes behind the leader, North American Keegan Bradley.
The myth is complicated in the painting
A complicated Thursday for Mito, since he had a day where he could not show his best image and where the complexity of a course like the Wilmington Country Club weighed on him. From the start, he lost ground with three bogeys in the first ten holes and had to row from behind on the home stretch.
Birdies in the eleventh and fourteenth gave him respite, but another penalty in the fifteenth struck again . He couldn’t get out that way on the last hole and suffered a bogey again. It was a complicated goodbye, because it was not in his plans for the day to end like this. I knew I needed some good first runs to have a chance of qualifying for the TOUR championship.
But there is still room. The myth has the chance (and the privilege) to argue the only PGA event that has no qualifying limit after the first 36 holes , so you still have three turns to improve your version and settle in the high places. If he manages to climb into the top 25 of the tournament, he will have a chance to play in the last tournament of the season.
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