The minute proved way too huge for Mito Pereira and turned ugly on final gap.
The 27-year-old from Chile took a one-stroke lead to No. 18 at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but did not depart its winner on Sunday. Pereira, seeking to gain his initially significant, progress to shoot a double bogey that not only expense him the direct, but the championship all collectively. His 5-more than par in the last spherical remaining him a stroke out of the playoff involving Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris. Thomas was 7 strokes off the guide to get started the day, and sooner or later captured his second major by the end of Sunday.
“It’s hard to finish like that,” Pereira claimed through his submit event job interview on CBS. “I didn’t enjoy genuinely very well now, just will need a few much more birdies and strike it a minimal bit greater to acquire. I’m just satisfied with how the 7 days turned out. On Monday, I just wished to make the slice. On Sunday, I wished to earn.”
Pereira hit his tee shot into the h2o on 18, took a drop and strike his 3rd shot into the tough and properly short of the eco-friendly. It still left him desired to chip in for bogey to attain the playoff, but he was not able to make it materialize.
“I was not pondering about the drinking water,” he said. “I strike it in the water. It is strange that it went in. But I guess you have so considerably force in your entire body that you do not know what you’re undertaking.”
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