PGA Tour pro in shock DQ for 'not being in place to play' at Bermuda Championship
Mexican Raul Pereda
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PGA Tour pro Raul Pereda was disqualified from the Butterfield Bermuda Championship after he was 'not in place to play at the resumption of the delayed second round on Saturday morning'.
The PGA Tour Communications Team made the update at 7.19am local time on X / Twitter.
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Golf Monthly then later confirmed the exact reason for Pereda's DQ from the tournament.
The second round of the Bermuda Championship was suspended on Friday afternoon due to darkness.
Play then re-commenced for 11 players to finish off their second rounds bright and early on Saturday morning.
But there was no sign of Pereda at his official re-starting time.
He had just two holes left to complete his second round, the par-3 8th and par-4 9th.
Pereda, 28, was 1-under par for his round at the time but 2-over par for the tournament.
As he had already missed out on the chance of an ace on the 8th, he would not have been able to make the halfway cut since it fell at 2-under par.
So Pereda seemingly decided to instead head home early in preparation for next week rather than hang around to finish off his round.
"He was disqualified when he was not in place to play at the resumption of the delayed second round on Saturday morning," a PGA Tour official later confirmed to Golf Monthly.
The DQ was a further blow to Pereda's chances of earning his PGA Tour card for 2025.
Pereda is currently well outside the top 125 to maintain membership on the circuit.
He's in a projected 218th position ahead of next week's final event of the season, the RSM Classic.
Pereda will likely need to win the RSM Classic in order to maintain his PGA Tour card.
The Mexican is ranked 1,066th in the world.
That is six spots ahead of Tiger Woods.
The DQ comes a week after PGA Tour pro Emilio Gonzalez was sent packing from the World Wide Technology Championship.
Gonzalez breached Rule 18.3 (Provisional Ball).
Read more on that DQ here.
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