Mito Pereira

The latest scores, news, and highlights from Saturday's third round at the 2022 PGA Championship.

The low round on the course belongs to Webb Simpson, who is two under through four holes and two over for the championship. Meanwhile, his partner, Norris, who hit his drive into a literal ditch, somehow muscled it on to the back edge of the green and then holed a BOMB for birdie. At one under through three holes, Canter sits in a tie for 30th at one over for the tournament. Back at the first, Koepka hits the green in regulation from the rough and has a decent look at birdie. Mito Pereira grabbed the lead with a birdie at the second, and he's kept it with a par at No. 3. He was fortunate to get free relief from an embedded ball, and he just put his third on the front of the green. He's six over on the three par-3s today—and six over for the round after opening on Thursday with a 65. After making a par on eight, Woods found a fairway bunker at the ninth and then hit his second directly into the face of the bunker. He missed a 12-foot par putt at No. 8 to bogey, and now he's got some bother at the ninth, working on a free drop back out of the spectator crossing zone. Two-putt par keeps him at five under, where he's now joined by parnter Justin Thomas, who failed to get up and down for par after sailing his approach over the first green. 5:30 p.m.: A third straight bogey, at 10, for Mito, who came up achingly short on his approach in the bunker. The four-time major champ makes a bomb on No. 16 to move back into red numbers for the week.

Pereira is a Ping staff player and uses a full bag of clubs from the brand. He starts with a Ping G425 Max driver which has 10.5 degrees of loft and is fitted ...

He is a graduate of Swansea University where he studied History and American Studies, and he has been a part of the Golf Monthly team since February 2018. He quickly became a golf equipment expert and has always been the one family and friends come to for buying advice, and spends a lot of his time putting golf gear, apparel and shoes to the test. The cover itself is also made from a new softer, urethane elastomer for more greenside spin and control. The most convincing of this traction comes from the new 3D moulded heel cup construction, which effectively creates a vacuum around the heel, locking it in for incredible levels of stability. Pereira is a Ping staff player and uses a full bag of clubs from the brand. it is a blade design which we obviously haven't tested, but we have used the new Ping PLD Anser line which are very similar. This is great for lining up the ball consistently in the centre of the face. They look exceptional as well - especially in the more traditional teardrop shape that is available in three of the four sole options. With its biennial upgrade, the design got several significant changes made to it, such as the new reformulated 2.0 ZG Process Core which was implemented with more distance in mind. Next up he uses a set of Ping iBlade irons and they go from four-iron down to nine-iron. He then uses four Ping Glide 4.0 wedges with 46, 52, 56 and 60 degrees of loft. He also uses a Ping G425 Max three-wood and seven-wood with 15.5 and 20.5 degrees of loft.

TULSA, Okla. — Mito Pereira is a surprise contender at the 2022 PGA Championship. For those friendly sports wagerers among us, he's looking like a great ...

He finished tied for 17th in the AT&T Byron Nelson a week ago tuning up for Southern Hills. Mito Pereira walks to the seventh green during the second round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports) Mito Pereira reacts to his putt on the seventh green during the second round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images) But golf fans have been hearing his name for a while. Mito Pereira of Chile plays a second shot on the fourth hole during the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. (Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) His highest career finish is a solo third at the Fortinet Championship in September of 2021.

Long before Mito Pereira was the man out in front at the 104th PGA Championship, he was honing his craft at Texas Tech University.

You go play a schedule like we play and you’re getting to see the best courses in the country and see the best competition, there are so many small things that you pick up and help you believe in your game. And I watched some of the shots he hit around there, and at that point I knew he had a skill to just get the ball in the hole. And then on some of the ball-striking things, he’s always had skills that I would say have been in the category that have been elite. Yes in the sense that we haven’t had a Red Raider reach this level yet — being in contention at a major. But really it was one of those things where I think he was intrigued by some of the great tournaments that college golf has to offer. He had a serious girlfriend back home, and he was very close to his family.

As of early Saturday evening, Santiago, Chile, native Mito Pereira leads the field at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 6-under par, one stroke ...

As things currently stand, Pereira is ranked as the No. 100 golfer in the world. He didn’t make the cut then, and he also missed the cut at The Players Championship earlier this year. Competing individually at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, he captured a bronze medal — so far the only medal he’s earned in international competition. He also finished as the runner-up at the 2010 Junior Open Championship. He was a runner-up at the 2006 Optimist International Junior Golf Championsip and won it in 2008. Pereira is 27 years old, in his first season as a member of the PGA Tour and was a largely unknown player before this weekend’s tournament.

Southern Hills' weather went from summer to lousy in a day and a number of players came out of the cold, led by Mito Pereira. But who will claim the major ...

You’ve got to go out and get it, everybody’s got to go out and earn it.” “It was a tough place to be at the moment. Zalatoris is in the mix to the finish. What are the odds of Chile producing two world-class players … and possibly a PGA champion? Exhibit III: Will Zalatoris, a former Masters runner-up who seems to make a run only at major championships, is at it again despite a five-bogey day that dropped him out of the lead but left him two back. Chile has about 50 golf courses and a few thousand recreational players, yet has two players in the top 25 in this PGA. Niemann is 23rd. He and Pereira are the only players to shoot under par in all three rounds. Stewart Cink celebrated his 49th birthday and charged with a 1-over-par 71 — that’s right, a 71 was charging in this misshaped third round — into a tie for seventh … Two-time Masters champ Bubba Watson straggled home with four back-nine bogeys when bunkers kept jumping in front of his ball … Cameron Young, a former Wake Forest University star who also is relatively unknown, powered his way into the mix by driving the green at the par-4 17th hole and draining a long eagle putt to slide into fourth. He shot 69 after opening with 68-64 and is three shots up on Fitzpatrick. Exhibit 2: A former U.S. Amateur champion from England you probably don’t remember and who’s never won on the PGA Tour — Matt Fitzpatrick — finished birdie-birdie to materialize out of seemingly nowhere and vault into second place. This guy loves to mash it off the tee and play aggressively. He could have folded Saturday but after four mid-round bogeys, he birdied three of the last six and made a clutch save at the 16th.

Leaderboard1 Mito Pereira -8 (69)T2 Matt Fitzpatrick -6 (67)T2 Will Zalatoris -6 (73)4 Cameron Young -5 (67)5 Abraham Ancer -4 (70)T76 Tiger Woods +12 ...

Mito Pereira has bogeyed No. 8, his first misstep today in what has otherwise been a terrific round of golf. It's an even-par 35 on the front nine for him. Webb is one of 15 players in red numbers right now and you could make the argument that all of them have a chance. That's not saying too terribly much — the previous best was a T40 at the Open Championship last year, with seven missed cuts in 10 total starts. He's now -5, two-under for the day, and tied with Cameron Young in third place, three shots behind leader Mito Pereira. We have not seen Fitzpatrick this high on a leaderboard in a major since ... well, it's been a long time. Great height, good speed and rolled down to a very makeable putt for Zalatoris, who is now T2 with Matt Fitzpatrick at 6-under. Pereira, as you may know, has not won on the PGA Tour yet, much less won a major championship. They're six shots behind the lead. Pereira started hot, cooled off in the middle of his round and watched his lead dwindle to one stroke, but played the final six holes in 3-under to card a 69. He declined to commit to playing the fourth round after the round. After making the cut with a round of 69 in Friday's second round, Woods struggled throughout Saturday with a 79.

He made three birdies over his last six holes, the final hole from just outside 25 feet that he called a bonus, giving him a 1-under 69 and a three-shot lead ...

Only 16 players remained under par at Southern Hills, a list that included Webb Simpson. On Friday, he had to save par from a bunker on his final hole to make the cut on the number. Zalatoris briefly caught him with a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-5 13th. He wound up with a 67 and was four shots behind. The birdie on 18 was a bonus. Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson looked shaky as ever on the greens, making three bogeys over his last four holes for a 73. The pain was more noticeable than it was on the weekend at the Masters, and he was 21 shots behind. He was helped by Pereira running into trouble, too — it seemed everyone did — by making four bogeys in a five-hole stretch around the turn. And when a third round as fickle as the wind finally ended, the 27-year-old from Chile stood on the cusp of fame. It was a tough place to be at that moment,” he said. No tour rookie has won a major since Keegan Bradley in the 2011 PGA Championship. “I was playing really good and suddenly I made four bogeys in five holes. If he lacks experience — this is his first PGA and only second major — so do the players closest to him.

TULSA, Okla. — Players showed up on Saturday to a Southern Hills Golf Club seemingly turned upside down, and Sunday's final round will begin with a ...

“If they are going to be $18, I don’t think I’ll go near them anyway. “I hit 8-iron into No. 6 yesterday, for example, and today I’m trying to hit a 3-iron,” said Seamus Power, who shot a three-under 67. Matthew Fitzpatrick will join Pereira in the final group. “It’s by far the biggest tournament I played, the biggest round of golf and tomorrow is going to be even bigger,” Pereira said after his round. Article content Article content

Unheralded Mito Pereira became the first Chilean to lead a major, surging three shots clear at the top of the PGA Championship third-round leaderboard on ...

U.S. Open champion and world number two Jon Rahm had a 76 and British Open winner and world number three Collin Morikawa signed for a 74. But he was not alone. Woods withdrew after having the third worst round of his career at a major, carding a nine-over 79 to leave him at the bottom of the leaderboard.

Playing in just his second career major, Mito Pereira enters the final round at the PGA Championship with a three-shot lead on Will Zalatoris.

He finished tied for 17th in the AT&T Byron Nelson a week ago tuning up for Southern Hills. His highest career finish is a solo third at the Fortinet Championship in September of 2021. Pereira missed the cut in the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. The 2022 PGA Championship marks his second start in a major championship. But golf fans have been hearing his name for a while. Pereira has played in 27 PGA Tour events and made 17 cuts. Pereira represented his home country of Chile in the men’s golf competition at the Summer Olympics in Japan in 2021.

He made three birdies over his last six holes, the final hole from just outside 25 feet that he called a bonus, giving him a 1-under 69 and a three-shot lead ...

Only 16 players remained under par at Southern Hills, a list that included Webb Simpson. On Friday, he had to save par from a bunker on his final hole to make the cut on the number. Zalatoris briefly caught him with a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-5 13th. He wound up with a 67 and was four shots behind. The birdie on 18 was a bonus. Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson looked shaky as ever on the greens, making three bogeys over his last four holes for a 73. The pain was more noticeable than it was on the weekend at the Masters, and he was 21 shots behind. He was helped by Pereira running into trouble, too _ it seemed everyone did _ by making four bogeys in a five-hole stretch around the turn. And when a third round as fickle as the wind finally ended, the 27-year-old from Chile stood on the cusp of fame. It was a tough place to be at that moment,'' he said. Former PGA champion Justin Thomas went 12 holes without a birdie, and then he gave it back with a bogey on the closing hole for a 74. No tour rookie has won a major since Keegan Bradley in the 2011 PGA Championship. If he lacks experience -- this is his first PGA and only second major -- so do the players closest to him.

The Chilean managed to drop his ball from the first cut of rough into the fairway due to a local rule.

The World No.100 recovered well with three birdies coming home to shoot 69 and reach nine-under-par for a three stroke lead. Perhaps his shot would have released more and stayed on the putting surface had he kept his original lie. It meant he was allowed a free drop within a club length, eventually dropping his ball in the fairway.