Diego Borrego (born 29 January 1972) is a Spanish

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er. He started playing golf at the age of seven and turned professional in 1991. He was a rookie on the European Tour in 1994, and two years later, he had his best season, winning the Turespana Masters and finishing thirtieth on the European Tour Order of Merit. He won his second European Tour title at the 2002

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, but he has sometimes struggled to hold on to his card, and in 2006 dropped down to the second tier

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Amateur wins

*1989 Sherry Cup *1990 Spanish Amateur Open Championship *1991 Italian Amateur Open Championship, Spanish Amateur Closed Championship

Professional wins (7)

European Tour wins (2)

¹Dual-ranking event with the

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Challenge Tour wins (3)

¹Dual-ranking event with the

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Other wins (3)

*1998 Azores Open (Portugal) *1999 Campeonato de Catalunya, Oki Telepizza - Salamanca (both Spain)

Team appearances

Amateur *

Jacques Léglise Trophy The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an annual amateur boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe. It was first played in 1977, as a one-day match before the Boys Amateur Championship, but since 1996 it has b ...

(representing the Continent of Europe): 1988, 1989 *

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958, it is named after Dwight D. Eisen ...

(representing Spain):

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

European Boys' Team Championship The European Boys' Team Championship (Jean-Louis Dupont Trophy) is a European amateur team golf championship for men up to 18 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1980 and it has been played annually since. S ...

(representing Spain): 1990 (winners) *

European Amateur Team Championship The European Amateur Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association which was introduced in 1959. The championship was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been ...

(representing Spain):

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 ...

Professional *

Dunhill Cup The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championshi ...

(representing Spain):

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

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(representing Spain):

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Borrego, Diego Spanish male golfers European Tour golfers Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from Málaga 1972 births Living people 20th-century Spanish people 21st-century Spanish people