Salvador Balbuena
Salvador Balbuena Bruna (c. 1949-1950 – 9 May 1979) was a Spanish professional golfer who won the 1976 Portuguese Open on the European Tour. He died of a heart attack on the eve of the 1979 Open de France, French Open in which he was due to play. Professional career Balbuena joined the European Tour before the 1976 season. He won the first event of the year, the Portuguese Open. In addition to winning his first tournament as a European Tour member, it was also the first golf tournament he had ever played outside his home country. Balbuena led by 5 strokes at the half-way stage and won by 4 shots from Sam Torrance. The following week he was joint leader after three rounds of the Open de España, Spanish Open before fading after a final round 78. Two weeks later, at the French Open (golf), French Open, he again led after three rounds and finished runner-up to South Africa's Vincent Tshabalala after a final round 72. The following week he made his British tour debut in the Piccadi ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ...
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