Thursday’s session had been 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 tournament of the maximum circuit after one round. Therefore, the expectation about what both could do on the second day of the RBC Heritage She was tall. And although they did not repeat what happened on the first day, his chances remain intact, after overcoming a difficult day in Hilton Heads, where the wind was the protagonist with gusts of over 30 kilometers per hour. Both finished Friday with -5 in the accumulated and tied for eighth place, three strokes behind the leader, the American Patrick Cantlay.
The first to jump onto the Harbor Town Golf Links course was Joaco. He did it from the 10th hole and had a quiet round in the first half, although not as spectacular as on the first day. started a birdie on the par 4 of 13, but on the next he made a bogey. From then on, there wasn’t much movement until flag number two. There the man from Talagan managed to discount a blow to the field after an extraordinary previous shot, which he took almost from the trees.
In the last holes, Joaco was not fine. Of the bogeys 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. On the remaining two flags, Niemann was unable to discount, so He closed the second round with 72 hits (+1), accumulating 137 hits (-5) in the general table. An irregular performance, but that leaves him with many chances for the weekend.
At the same time that the current number 15 in the world was ending, Mito Pereira began his participation. The native of Pirque showed from the outset that what happened on Thursday had not been a coincidence. And birdie on the second hole he kept it up. 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 the difficulties, the national golfer discounted again at the flag 13 and managed to save the pair incredibly at 15 after having sent the ball into the water in one of his shots. While in 17 and 18 he was nothing to achieve two separate birdies, ending with 71 hits. But, beyond not having finalized them, the important thing is that he is also excited about getting his first PGA.
