The Masters Tournament 2023 is coming, where figures of the stature of Scottie Scheffler, the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy and the Spanish Jon Rahm, will share the field with the Chileans Joaquin Niemann and Mito Pereira.
This is the first Major of this year and it comes at a time when the dispute between the PGA Tour and the Liv Golf League was about to explode. For this tournament, there are 18 players from the Saudi league. Among them is Mito Pereira and his partner 24 year old Chilean, Joaquin Niemann.
The first departures were known
The expectation was set in the exits of the first days of the tournament. The curiosity was in case the organization decided to mix PGA Tour players with some others from LIV. However, they opted for caution and this did not happen.
The first Chilean to debut in this tournament will be Mito Pereira together with the German Bernhard Langer and the American fan Ben Carr. For his part, Joaquin Niemann He will do it together with the Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and the American Brian Harmann.
In this way, Mito will be making his debut at Augusta Nacional, while Joaquin Niemann He will play this tournament for the fourth time, since he did it in 2018, 2021 and 2022. The native of Talagante He is remembered for controversial statements.
“It’s going to be fun knowing that they hate us”declared Joaquin Niemann and these words echoed, since he is a renowned player in the LIV Golf League, a Saudi golf league not endorsed by the PGA.
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