Neither Joaquín Niemann, nor Guillermo Pereira left Tokyo with the feeling of the objective accomplished. “That would have been taking me the medal,” admits ‘Mito’, who fought until the second playoff hole and received an Olympic diploma to fourth place in the competition.
“I don’t know where I will put this performance, because I came for a medal and I couldn’t,” laments Joaco, who finished tenth, and with a brilliant final round he was also one shot away from making the playoffs.
Edo Miquel trains both of them since they were little. knows them better than anyone, and believes that one trait that distinguishes them is that winning mentality. “They never settle. They always want to go for more, and in Tokyo they confirmed that they are on the right track to win medals.”
Both golfers also relived in Tokyo an emotion they had not felt in a long time: playing for Chile. “We are used to competing for silver in professionalism and it is rich to go back to how it was before. It made me realize that what I do is for the love of sports and not money. “
Myth was also surprised by the illusion they generated in Chile. They had the feeling that it is in their hands to take golf out of the elite and transform it into a more popular sport. “We would like to provoke with golf the same thing that González and Massú did with tennis. For people to get up at five in the morning to see us, to receive all that affection, it was very nice. “
“Golf has that elite image, and it is very difficult to practice, but in recent times that has been reversed a bit. Make it grow. It’s what I enjoy, it’s just another sport, and I like being here. I feel like a small child since I started playing “, Joaco complements.
