The LIV of Mexico launched its second season parallel to the PGA Tour circuit, the most recognized worldwide in golf. This way, Joaquin Niemann and his team Torque GC made its official debut in the 2023 season, although it did not turn out in the best way and they must prepare for the second day that will be in the United States.
JoaKing He started badly on Friday with a +3 due to four bogeys and a double-bogey that nullified his three birdies achieved on holes 2, 11 and 15. From that moment on, he knew that he was going to have two difficult days and that he had to improve his performance if he wanted to fight for first place. Although the following days were better (-4 and -3), Joaquin Niemann he had to settle for an eleventh place, 11 strokes behind the winner Charles Howell.
In this way, he lost the check for four million dollars that was finally left for the American. That check was even bigger, though, because in splitting the money they earned as teams, Howell took another $750,000 home from him. Rounding off figures, there were 4.75 million who lost the chilean golfer while in the same way he congratulated the Colombian Sebastián Muñoz who was the best of his team with a seventh place and a -4 card.
Joaquin Niemann He was not the only Chilean, since Mito Pereira is also on his team. Despite the fact that the latter had had a better start, he got worse as the days went by and finished in fifteenth place with -3. The last member of the group is the Spanish David Puig who had a tournament to forget from the beginning to the end and was 38th of 48 participants with five strokes over par.
They seek to improve their level
Although they will have two weekends off, the entire group will be preparing for what will happen on March 17, 18 and 19 when the second date of the season begins at the Gallery Golf Club in the city of Tucson in the US state. from Arizona.
It will be the only tournament that takes place in March and then they will have to wait until April where there will be a long tour that will start the first days in Orlando, Florida. Then it will go through Oceania and Asia, since they will visit Australia on April 21, 22 and 23 and on April 28, 29 and 30 they will be in Singapore.