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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The cheers were set to reverberate across the Andes.

They were quieted by the sprinkle of a little white ball into a shadowy rivulet around 50% of a world away.

Mito Pereira's wayward tee shot on the last opening of guideline in Sunday's PGA Championship at Southern Hills sent the visit tenderfoot tumbling to a twofold intruder 6 that deleted his one-stroke lead and took him out of a season finisher.

Whenever Pereira's intruder putt slid past the opening, Chile's most memorable significant title got away. So did a lifelong huge homerun for South America. Justin Thomas beat Will Zalatoris in a three-opening season finisher to guarantee the Wanamaker Trophy.

"Today I was very apprehensive. I attempted to deal with it somewhat however it's truly intense," Pereira said. "I thought I planned to win on 18, yet what will be will be. We'll have another."

The tension had been building. Pereira held a three-stroke lead when the last round started. After his fourth intruder of the day, he was tied for the lead with six openings to play. Be that as it may, he birdied the standard 5 thirteenth opening yet driven by one stroke when he arranged a 13-foot birdie putt on No. 17.

The putt was following toward the opening however halted on the edge of the cup.

Pereira tapped in for standard and made a beeline for the last tee box to confront his nerves and the monstrous exhibition coating the fairway the entire way to the green.

"I thought I was anxious the principal day. Then I thought I was apprehensive the subsequent day. Then I thought I was anxious on the third day," he said. "Yet, the fourth day was awful."

The 490-yard, standard 4 eighteenth played as probably the hardest opening at Southern Hills throughout the week. Pereira might have avoided any and all risks with a long iron or fairway wood off the tee. He rather picked driver and an off-kilter swing and completely finish sent his ball cruising right and toward the stream.

He probably knew the outcome from the moan of the exhibition.

"Miserable to hit it in the water," Pereira said. "At the end of the day, I want to rehash it."

Phil Mickelson at Winged Foot in 2006 was the last player to lose a significant with a twofold intruder on the end opening — and, as Pereira, Lefty hit a pointless driver on No. 18.

Latin American players have a rich history in golf, however few have battled in significant titles. Just two, both from Argentina, have won: Roberto De Vicenzo by two shots over Jack Nicklaus in the 1967 British Open at Hoylake, and Angel Cabrera, who won the U.S. Open in 2007 and the Masters two years after the fact.

Pereira drove a list of six South Americans at the current year's PGA Championship who could yet turn into a reliable power in the game's greatest competitions.

His profession had been gradually working before he tracked down the spotlight at the PGA.

He was a lesser star in Chile when he left the country for the IMG Academy in Florida, then, at that point, quit the game for a considerable length of time to recharge his advantage. Subsequent to hauling his clubs out of the carport, he played one year at Texas Tech prior to turning genius at age 20 of every 2015.

Pereira was the Korn Ferry Tour player of the year in 2021. His greatest stage before this week was the Tokyo Olympics, where he lost a season finisher for a bronze decoration.