Carlos Daniel Franco (born 24 May 1965) is a

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who currently plays on the

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. He is the brother of golfer

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. Franco was born in

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, Paraguay. He comes from a poor background and grew up in a one-room, dirt-floor home. His father was a greenkeeper and

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, and he has five brothers, all of whom became golf professionals. Carlos turned professional in 1986 and has played in many parts of the world. He has won more than twenty tournaments in Latin America, and from 1994 to 1999 he won five times on the

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. He also won the 1994 Philippine Open title on the

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and claimed the Order of Merit title that season. He first played on the U.S.-based

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in 1999 and was fully exempt until 2006. He was the first rookie to surpass $1 million in earnings in a season and won the

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title. He won four times on the PGA Tour. He has featured in the top 20 of the

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, going as high as 16th in 2000. He is also one of the few non-Americans to win a

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as a member of the 1998 team. After struggling to stay on the PGA Tour, Franco also played on the

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and

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. Franco joined the Champions Tour after turning 50. At the 2019 Pan American Games, Franco teamed with

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, and

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, to win the silver medal in the mixed team event.

Professional wins (25)

PGA Tour wins (4)

PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

Japan Golf Tour wins (5)

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

Other wins (13)

*1985 Chile Open *1986

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(Argentina) *1987 Asunción Open (Paraguay) *1990

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(Argentina) *1991 Daytron Cup (Paraguay) *1992 Paraguay Open *1993 Los Leones Open (Chile), Uruguay Open, Asunción Open (Paraguay) *2000 Paraguay Open *2001

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*2003

*2004

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(Argentina)

PGA Tour Champions wins (2)

Results in major championships

WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (1998 Open Championship – 1999 U.S. Open) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Results in World Golf Championships

¹Cancelled due to

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QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament

Results in senior major championships

''Results are not in chronological order before 2022.'' CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to

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Team appearances

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(representing Paraguay):

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

, 1993,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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(representing Paraguay):

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

(International Team): 1998 (winners),

References

External links

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The Carlos Franco Country And Golf Club's official site
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