Joaquín Niemann grows and makes history before his 21st birthday

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Joaquin Niemann, celebrating a birdie. (Credit: Rob Carr / Getty Images)

(CNN Spanish) - Chilean Joaquin Niemann won the 'A Military Tribute' at the Greenbrier ”in Virginia, with six strokes ahead of American Tom Hodge. This is the first victory for a Chilean on the PGA tour, and his first win as a professional.

With this, Niemann is among the top 50 players in the world ranking, and is left with excellent chances of being called to form the lines of the Presidents Cup international team to be held in Melbourne, Australia and led by veteran Ernie Els.

The Chilean golfer joins Seve Ballesteros and Rory McIlroy as the only ones to achieve the feat before he turns 21. For Niemann this comes to almost an exact year of the culmination of his PGA debut season and with only 44 tournaments played as a professional.

A good time to remember what he told CNN before the Mayakoba tournament, in the Riviera Maya, in Mexico. It was a special tournament, and today even more relevant since it was his first game after leaving adolescence. Something that the organizers of the event celebrated the traditional Mexican 'las mañanitas'.

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