Former Texas Tech Pink Raider golfer Mito Pereira double-bogeyed the general hollow of the PGA Championship to fall out of rivalry at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Tiger Woods withdrew from the PGA Championship after capturing a 79 on Saturday
Mito Pereira
Mito Pereira
Periera tee’d off on the 18th with a one-shot lead over Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris and hit his pressure into the water. After the penalty drop, he hit his 3rd shot within the tough nonetheless 80-feet from the pin.
Pereira then flew his chip over the golf green into the green. He hit his manner shot to 4-feet from the pin and one putted for the double-bogey.
Pereira led many of the means after 3 rounds within the 60s, however the pageant was once by no means a long way in the back of. He led by means of 3 strokes getting into the general spherical on Sunday.
Mito Pereira
Mito Pereira
Mito Pereira
Pereira, 27, just got his tour card last year by virtue of winning three times on the Korn Ferry Tour, was once in uncharted territory, and looking to stay as calm as conceivable, as he mentioned after the thrid spherical:
“It is by means of a long way the largest event that I have performed, the largest spherical of golfing and day after today goes to be even larger,” Pereira mentioned after the 3rd spherical. “I will simply attempt to stay it easy, attempt to do the similar issues that I have been doing and check out not to even have a look at the folk round.”
Pereira had problems with bogeys all weekend, with 4 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday, now not together with the double-bogey on 18.
Zalatoris and Thomas endured in a playoff whilst Pereira watched.
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