Nicholas Echavarria is set to debut in the 2022-23 season of the pga tours, which will begin with the Fortinet Championship, a tournament that is played at the Silverado Resort, located in Napa (California).
Echavarría, who started on the PGA Tour Latin America and from there jumped to the Korn Ferry, knows that the conditions are different, but that the demanding circuit gives him the necessary tools to face the best in the world.
This is how Echavarría sees his debut on the PGA Tour
“My first PGA Tour tournament, it’s an amazing place to debut because it’s a course where you can really understand how tournaments are played on this tour. The weather forecast for the week doesn’t show much rain, so it will be a field that plays very similar to last year,” Echavarria said.
“The goal is to feel comfortable with what you’re doing, but you have to believe it, I’m here for something and it’s because I had a very good year on the Korn Ferry Tour, so you have to believe in the process I’m going through,” he added. .
The Fortinet Championship takes place between Thursday, September 15 and Sunday, September 18, and among the field of players are the last three champions of the competition: the Americans Max Homa (2021), Stewart Cink (2020) and Cameron Champ (2019) , as well as prominent PGA golfers such as former world number one Jason Day and Japanese former Augusta Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama.
The other Colombian with a card in the circuit, Juan Sebastian Munoz will not play the first tournament of the season. The Colombian married last Saturday with Daniela Granados.
The purse of the first tournament of the PGA Tour season
This tournament, which will be the first of the 43 events that the PGA Tour has organized for the 2022/2023 season, distributes a prize pool of 8 million dollars, of which the winner takes 1.4 million and the last one that exceeds the court obtains a sum close to 20 thousand dollars.
Nicolás Echavarría will play alongside Tyson Alexander and Matti Schmid from 10:50 am, Colombian time, on Thursday, while on Friday he will have action from 4:00 pm, with the same group.
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