Mito Pereira earns historic third victory, advertising to PGA TOUR at BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Company

GREER, S.C. – Mito Pereira manufactured record on Sunday as he grew to become the 12th player in the Korn Ferry Tour’s 32-12 months background to get paid the 3-Victory Marketing to the PGA TOUR. Pereira carded a closing-spherical 64 to appear from a few strokes again and gain his third victory of the period at the BMW Charity Professional-Am introduced by SYNNEX Company, including two in the previous two weeks.

“This is outrageous, male,” smiled Pereira after the win. “Like I explained, I did not at any time think I could get three times on this Tour and now I have just won three occasions in 1 12 months and going to the PGA TOUR. This is by far the most effective factor that I have completed in my everyday living. I just can’t wait around to get there and just to participate in the finest I can.”

In addition to starting to be the 12th player to gain the advertising to the TOUR – and initial due to the fact Wesley Bryan in 2016 – Pereira also gets the 12th player to gain back-to-back again functions on the Korn Ferry Tour right after his victory at very last week’s REX Hospital Open up. The 11th (Cameron Younger) and 12th players to gain again-to-again on Tour transpired more than the previous four weeks, though the feat experienced formerly not been attained considering that 2013 (Michael Putnam).

“Probably given that I was 4, 5, so it is really been a long ride,” claimed Pereira of his PGA TOUR desires. “There’s been difficult times, fantastic moments, but it is really all value it…I hope it will help every person in Chile to develop this activity and to get much more easy entrance to the recreation. I’m so pleased. I desired to thank them, far too. Chile has been wonderful. All the people supporting me, many thanks for everyone.”

Pereira joins his superior mate Joaquin Niemann in symbolizing the place of Chile on TOUR, a person who he has stayed with at factors more than the past yr and a half as the COVID-19 pandemic shut off worldwide travel.

“Joaquin’s been fantastic not just for me, for Chile, far too,” said Pereira. “He’s developed the recreation, everybody’s fascinated. I am actively playing very good now and you will find extra men and women intrigued in golf. He’s been executing wonderful. And I continue to be at his home every time I can, so I just want to thank him, much too. I am going to see him in two weeks.”

Soon after opening the day three strokes back, Pereira birdied his initial two holes to shut the hole on 54-gap leader Justin Decrease. After a bogey at the fourth, Pereira birdied four out of five holes from Nos. 7-11 (excluding 10) to acquire the direct. He adopted it up with three consecutive birdies on Nos. 14-16 to distance himself and just take total regulate down the stretch.

With the gain, Pereira earns PGA TOUR membership for the remainder of the season and the full 2021-22 period.

“Oh, I am heading to celebrate, man,” laughed Pereira, a 26-12 months-old from Santiago. “This is 3 celebrations.”

Soon after a 71 on Sunday, Reduce earns the 3rd runner-up end of his profession. Whilst his initial victory alluded him, the finish did advance him from 37th to 23rd in the Korn Ferry Tour factors standings. In the meantime Max McGreevy, who carded a ultimate-round 65, moved up to 3rd following beginning the final round T8.

Final-Spherical Notes

Sunday’s climate: Partly cloudy with a superior of 88 levels and wind N/NE at 4-10 mph
The BMW Charity Professional-Am introduced by SYNNEX Corporation was the 13th event of 2021 and the 36th (of 43) of the 2020-21 combined time Pereira claimed victories at the 2020 Country Club de Bogota Championship, the 2021 REX Healthcare facility Open (past week) and this week’s tournament
Pereira has now had 10 consecutive rounds of 68 or greater, relationship back a few tournaments (68-67-62-67-67-67-65-63-66-64)
With his complete, Lee Hodges (-14, T26) surpassed the Korn Ferry Tour’s 1,700-issue threshold to formally protected his place in The 25 and gain his PGA TOUR card this fall Hodges is the ninth player to pass the Tour’s fail-secure range of 1,700 to receive his card
Generating his Korn Ferry Tour debut, Austin Eckroat (-18, 7th) finished in the leading-10 Eckroat was 1 of 3 players from the PGA TOUR University’s inaugural course competing in the tournament (Kevin Yu – T20, Garett Reband – MC)
This week’s purse was $700,000 with $126,000 likely to the winner, Mito Pereira Pereira also receives 500 Korn Ferry Tour points
The put together 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour program will conclude with 25 PGA TOUR playing cards awarded in August at the 2021 Pinnacle Lender Championship offered by Aetna, with an supplemental 25 playing cards awarded at the summary of the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Finals