After the conclusion of the BMW Championship, the international team of the Presidents Cup confirmed the first eight players who will be part of the traditional squad event. A list where Joaquín Niemann and Mito Pereira are. Chileans are the only Latinos.
A confirmation that is achieved exclusively by sports results. Both managed to harvest a great year in the PGA and were among the eight players (that meet the requirements) with the best points of the season. While the one from Talagante is fourth on the list, the one from Pirque came in just right, in eighth place.
In this way, the international team is made up, in addition to the Chileans, of the Australians Cameron Smith (winner of the Open Championship this year) and Adam Scott (former number one in the world), South Koreans Sunjae Im (11th in the race for the FedEx Cup) and Joohyung Kim (19th in the world), the Japanese Hideki Matsuyama (2021 Masters winner) and Canadian Corey Conners (2019 Valero Texas Open winner).
This is the second time that Niemann is part of the tournamentwhile for Mito it will be his debut in the competition that will face the rest of the world against the United States at the end of September.
But not only from the international side did news come this day, since the 50-state team announced six of its golfers, highlighting the presence of the current number one in the world, Scottie Scheffler.
The winner of Augusta 2022 will be accompanied Sam Burns (4th in the race for the FedEx Cup), Patrick Cantlay (today he won the BMW Championship), Tony Finau (two wins this season), Xander Schauffele (gold in Tokyo 2021) and Justin Thomas (winner of the PGA Championship).
