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2008 Tour De Las Américas
The 2008 Tour de las Américas was the eighth season of the Tour de las Américas, the main professional golf tour in Latin America since it was established in 2000. The Tour de las Américas continued its close association with the European Tour, with three events being co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour, Europe's official development tour. It also began an association with the Canadian Tour PGA Tour Canada, commonly referred to as the Canadian Tour, is a men's professional golf tour headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The United States based PGA Tour took over operation of the tour on November 1, 2012, at which time it was renamed PG ..., co-sanctioning three events. Schedule The following table lists official events during the 2008 season. Order of Merit The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars. Notes References External linksOfficial site {{DEFAULTSORT:2008 Tour de las Americas Tour de las Américas Tour de l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Gómez (golfer)
Rafael Faustino Gómez (born 27 December 1967) is an Argentine professional golfer. Career Gómez was born in Buenos Aires. He turned professional in 1990. He played on the European Challenge Tour in 2003 and from 2005 to 2007 and the European Tour from 2005 to 2007. He played on the U.S.-based Nationwide Tour in 2004 and a few events on the PGA Tour. His best finish on the PGA Tour was 38th place in The International in 2002. His best finish on the European Tour was 22nd place in the KLM Open in 2006. Gómez won the TPG Tour Order of Merit in 2007 and the Tour de las Americas Order of Merit in 2001/02 and 2004. He was second in Los Encinos Open in 2002, Mexican Open in 2006 and the Colombian Open in 2008. Gómez and Ángel Cabrera have the most tournament wins on the Tour de las Americas with eight victories. Gómez won the 2018 European Senior Tour qualifying school and currently plays on that tour. He finished runner-up in the 2018 Senior Italian Open, losing in a playoff t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Ahokas
Antti Juhani Ahokas (born 24 January 1985) is a Finnish professional golfer. Ahokas was born in Lappeenranta. After winning the Finnish Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 2005, he moved to the United States to attend the University of Minnesota, but left after just 3 months to return to Europe and further his ambitions as a professional. In 2006, Ahokas won the Irish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship beating future world number 1 and major winner Rory McIlroy in a playoff. Having turned professional in 2006, Ahokas just failed to come through the European Tour final qualifying school and joined the second tier Challenge Tour for the 2007 season. In 2008, he won for the first time at the Abierto VISA de la Republica, becoming the first left-hander to take that title. Later in the season, he won again at the ECCO Tour Championship, and gained promotion the elite European Tour by ending the season ranked 19th on the money list. Amateur wins *2004 Finnish Amateur Match Play C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clodomiro Carranza
Clodomiro Carranza (born 26 April 1982) is an Argentinian professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica, having previously played on the European Tour, Web.com Tour and Tour de las Américas. Professional career Carranza turned professional in 2002 and played much of his early career on the Argentine national professional golf tour. His first professional win came at the 2005 Acantilados Grand Prix on the PGA of Argentina Tour. In 2005 Carranza became a member of the Tour de las Américas and achieved his first win on the tour at the 2008 Carlos Franco Invitational. From 2005 to 2008 Carranza also played a limited number of events on the Challenge Tour before gaining playing rights for the European Tour for the 2010 and 2011 seasons. However Carranza failed to find success on the European Tour achieving just one top ten finish in 41 career events, eventually losing his tour card following the 2011 season. In 2012 Carranza joined PGA Tour Latinoamérica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Franco Invitational
The Carlos Franco Invitational is a professional golf tournament held at the Carlos Franco Country & Golf Club, in Arroyos y Esteros, Paraguay. First held in 2004, the tournament was included in the TPG Tour schedule in 2007, which is the official professional golf tour in Argentina. The following year, it was also included on the Tour de las Americas calendar, the highest level tour in Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f .... Winners PO – won following playoff External linksTour de las Americas– official siteTPG Tour– official site Golf tournaments in Paraguay Tour de las Américas events {{golf-tournament-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wagner (golfer)
Alan Wagner (born 8 August 1989) is an Argentine professional golfer. As an amateur he won the Argentine Amateur Championship in 2005. Amateur wins *2005 Argentine Amateur Championship Professional wins (5) Challenge Tour wins (1) 1Co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Américas PGA Tour Latinoamérica wins (2) Tour de las Américas wins (2) 1Co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour Ángel Cabrera Tour wins (1) Team appearances Amateur * Eisenhower Trophy (representing Argentina): 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ... * Copa de las Americas (representing Argentina): 2007 (individual winner) External links * * * Argentine male golfers PGA Tour Latinoamérica golfers European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Argentine people of German descent 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taurus Abierto De Peru
The Peru Open, or Abierto de Perú, is the national open golf tournament of Peru. It was first played in 1982, although previous tournaments had previously been held using the same name. It was an event on the South American Tour from 1995 to 2000, and revived as a stop on the Tour de las Américas in 2004, when it was co-sanctioned by the European Challenge Tour, and 2008. It is currently an event on PGA Tour Latinoamérica. Winners Source: Notes References External linksCoverage on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica's official site {{PGA Tour Latinoamérica PGA Tour Latinoamérica events Former Challenge Tour events Former Tour de las Américas events Golf in Peru Recurring sporting events established in 1953 1953 establishments in Peru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Romero (golfer)
Ángel Romero may refer to: * Angel Romero (guitarist) (born 1956), Spanish guitarist * Ángel Romero (cyclist) (1932–2007), Mexican cyclist and politician * Ángel Romero (footballer) Ángel Rodrigo Romero Villamayor (born 4 July 1992), more commonly known as Ángel Romero, is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Corinthians and the Paraguay national team. He is the twin brother of Óscar Romero. ... (born 1992), Paraguayan footballer * Ángel Romero Díaz (born 1979), Spanish writer and politician {{Hndis, Romero, Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal I Abierto De Venezuela
The Venezuela Open or Abierto de Venezuela is a men's professional golf tournament. It has only been staged intermittently since 1957, 2019 being the 35th edition of the event. Al Geiberger, Art Wall Jr., David Graham, Roberto De Vicenzo and Tony Jacklin are past champions. Since 2014, the Venezuela Open has been a fixture on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica Developmental Series. From 1979 to 2009 it made frequent appearances on the South American Tour, later known as the Tour de las Américas. Between 1961 and 1973 the tournament was a regular stop on the PGA-sponsored Caribbean Tour, when it was called the Caracas Open or Caracas Open Invitational. The second event in 1957 was co-sponsored by the PGA. The event has generally been played at three venues in Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisa Players Championship
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announced that they had proposed a merger between Televisa's media and entertainment assets with Univision, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on January 31, 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (founded in 1950), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Saavedra (golfer)
Sebastián Saavedra (born 2 June 1990) is a Colombian racing driver from Bogotá. In 2014, he drove for KVSH Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series before being replaced by former GP2 Series driver Stefano Coletti. Racing career Early career After a childhood in karting, Saavedra drove in Formula BMW USA for Gelles Racing, finishing 11th in points. He also drove in two races in Formula BMW ADAC and competed in the Formula BMW World Final, finishing 32nd. He was involved in an incident with Sergio Pérez where Saavedra's car ended up on top of Pérez's in round 6 of 2006 Formula BMW ADAC. Both drivers were black flagged and Saavedra was dropped by his team, Eifelland Racing. In 2007 he switched teams in Formula BMW USA to Eurointernational and captured one win and finished 12th in points despite only competing in 8 of 14 races. He also competed in 6 Formula BMW Asia races capturing 3 wins, two races in Formula BMW ADAC, and finished 4th in the Formula BMW World Final. In 2008 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa 3 Diamantes Mitsubishi
Copa or COPA may refer to: COPA COPA may refer to: * Computer Operator Programming Assistant. trade of ITI * Child Online Protection Act, a former U.S. law to protect minors from certain material on the internet * Canadian Owners and Pilots Association * Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association * Parliamentary Conference of the Americas * COPA (gene), a human gene that encodes the coatomer subunit alpha protein * Controlling Profitability Analysis, Profitability Analysis (SAP) *COPA-COGECA, a union of European farmers Copa Copa may refer to: * Copa Heizung GmbH, COPA branded hydronic steel panel and bathroom radiator supplier based in Germany * Copa Airlines, an international airline based in Panama * Copa America, the main association football competition of the South American men's national football teams * ''Copa'' (spider), a genus of spiders in the family Corinnidae * Copacabana (nightclub), a nightclub in New York City * Copa Room, now-defunct Las Vegas nightclub at The Sands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Aguilar
Felipe Andrés Aguilar Schuller (born November 7, 1974) is a Chilean professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. Career In 2006 he became the second Chilean, after Roy Mackenzie to earn full membership to the European Tour but failed to retain full playing rights at the end of the season. In 2007 he won two events on the Challenge Tour in a 4-week span. Due to his success on the Challenge Tour he rejoined the European Tour in 2008. In February 2008, Aguilar won his first European Tour event at the Astro Indonesia Open. He birdied the final hole while the erstwhile leader Jeev Milkha Singh bogeyed for a two shot swing that saw the Chilean win by one stroke. In April 2013, Aguilar was part of the joint longest sudden-death playoff, lasting nine extra holes, in European Tour history at the Open de España. He was eliminated at the third extra hole when he made par. He ended 50th in the Race to Dubai with eight top 10s in 27 tournaments. In May 2014, Aguilar won his secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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