Jesús Armando Amaya Contreras (born 24 August 1969) is a Colombian

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. Amaya was born in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

, and worked as a

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at the Club Popular de Golf La Florida before turning professional in 1991. In addition to his many victories on the Colombian Golf Federation circuit, including three

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titles, Amaya has won six times on the Tour de las Americas, finishing second on the Order of Merit in 2000–01, and fourth in 2001–02. In 2015, he won his 100th tournament. Amaya has represented Colombia on five occasions at the

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Professional wins (46)

Tour de las Américas wins (7)

* 2000 Coast Open (Argentina),

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* 2002 Medellín Open (Colombia), Microsoft Serrezuela Masters (Colombia),

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* 2007

* 2010 Abierto Internacional de Golf Copa Sura (Colombia)

Colombian Tour wins (1)

Other Colombian wins (36)

''This list is incomplete'' * 1993

, Campeonato Nacional de Profesionales, CC Medellín Open * 1994 Caribbean Open (Barranquilla) * 2003 Los Andes GC Open, Pereira Open * 2004 Barranquilla Open,

, Petrolero Open, CC Cali Open, CC Guaymaral Tournament (with Gustavo Mendoza) * 2005 Serrezuela Open, Pueblo Viejo CC Open, Farallones Open, CC Medellín Open,

, Caribbean Open (Barranquilla), GC Peñalisa Open, Carmel Club Open * 2006 CC Armenia Open, Manizales Open, Serrezuela Open, Colombian National Championship, GC Peñalisa Open * 2007 CC Cali Open * 2008 CC La Sabana Open, CC El Rancho Open, Carmel Club Open * 2010 Medellín Open * 2012 Caribbean Open * 2013 CC Medellín Open * 2014 CC Cali Open * 2015 Carmel Club Open, Barranquilla Open * 2016 CC Neiva Open, CC El Rancho Open

Other wins (2)

*2010 Dominican Republic Open *2015 Chiapas Golf Challenge (Mexico)

Team appearances

(representing Colombia):

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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 ...

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 ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

References

External links

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Profile on the Colombian Golf Federation's official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amaya, Jesus Colombian male golfers Sportspeople from Bogotá 1969 births Living people 20th-century Colombian people