After an exciting tiebreaker round, Mexican Abraham Ancer was proclaimed champion this Sunday in Hong Kong, an event that is part of the LIV Golf circuit and? He gave the Aztec a bag corresponding to nothing more and nothing less than $4,000,000 dollars..
Abraham Ancer, 33 years old, had a difficult time on the last day of the tournament, which he arrived with a comfortable advantage of five strokes over his closest pursuers. On Sunday he finished with a 72 stroke, 2 over par, with three bogeys and a birdie, according to the EFE news agency.
This drop in the Mexican’s rhythm was taken advantage of by the Englishman Paul Casey with 66 strokes (-4) and the Australian Cameron Smith with 67 (-3) to force a tie and in the decisive round Ancer ended up winning, who is the first Mexican to win a LIV circuit tournament, organized by Saudi Arabia and which is parallel to the PGA Tour and the European DP World Tour.
“I complicated myself. My blows were not good, but mentally I felt strong, as if with the conviction that I was not going to give up.”commented the Mexican golfer who completed the tiebreaker with a performance of one under par while the other two finished it with two more shots.
“That round could have been a disaster very quickly, but I was able to hit good shots from the bunker and other good putts that I needed to stay in the competition and I ended up with the right shot at the right time in the playoff”added Abraham Ancer.
The Mexican golfer took the victory in Hong Kong, which was the second of three tournaments that the LIV Golf circuit will play as part of its Asian tour. The next one will be the first days of May in Singapore, but before that they will play again in Miami between April 5 and 7.
For his part, Carlos Ortiz, also a Mexican, finished in fifth place in the tournament after completing a card of 66 strokes (-4) thanks to five birdies and a bogey and with a cumulative score of 198 (-12), just behind the Chilean Joaquín Niemann who finished with seven under par and a total of 198 strokes (-12).
Another Latin American to stand out in Hong Kong was the Colombian Sebastián Muñoz who finished in 21st position with a total of 203 hits (-7).
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