To applaud: Juan Sebastián Muñoz won an Olympic diploma in Olympic golf

“I am very happy for what I did in Tokyo, I feel that I gave everything, I was very close, I go with my head held high, because this is not easy, there are 60 of the best golfers in the world and there are only 3 medals,” he said. the best Colombian golfer of today.

Muñoz began his participation with a seventh position, to then have a second regular day and fall to the eleventh box and come back on the third day with a fifth place. During the closing of the golf, seven athletes tied in the fight for the bronze, since the gold went to the American Xander Schauffeleon with 266 strokes (-18) and the silver for the Slovak Rory Sabbatini with 267 (-17), who established a new Olympic record with 61 strokes.

On the last day Muñoz scored birdies on holes three, four, thirteen, fourteen and seventeen, a painful bogey on the 9th and par on the remaining twelve.

With 267 strokes (-15) at the end of the fourth day, the Chilean Mito Pereira, the Colombian Sebastian Muñoz, the Irish Rory McIlroy, the American Collin Morikawa, the Japanese Hideki Matsuyama, CT Pan, from China Taipei and the British Paul Casey They went to sudden death with three holes to play: 18, 10 and 11.

Regarding the dispute for the bronze, Muñoz stated: “Normally nobody fights for third place, everyone fights for first place, the honor of the country and personal honor are always present. I loved representing my country, it was a very nice experience ”.

In the first hole of the playoff, the Colombian hit the best start and was the one who left the ball closest to the hole, but could not finish his birdie with which he would have stayed with the last place on the golf podium, but this hole He left Matsuyama and Casey out of the fray, who bogeyed.

During the development of the test on hole 11, the Colombian did not have his best performance, he missed the green and put himself in a very difficult position to continue in the race. When he did not achieve the birdie, he said goodbye to the competition for the last medal that golf delivered.

In this way, Muñoz concluded in the fourth position of the test, achieving the Olympic diploma for Colombia and achieving a brilliant performance.