Raúl Fretes (born 13 September 1965) is a

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

an professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er. Fretes was born in

Asunción Asunción (, , , Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of ...

and turned pro in 1990. He won the

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Order of Merit in 1994 and 1998. He won the 2005 World Golf Teachers Cup. Fretes played on the

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and his best finish was second in the

TLA Players Championship The TLA Players Championship was a men's golf tournament on the Tour de las Américas, the highest level professional golf tours, professional golf tour in Latin America, held from 2002 to 2012. It was held at several different courses in the seasi ...

in 2003 and the

Center Open The Center Open, or Abierto del Centro, is one of the major regional open golf tournaments in Argentina. Founded in 1927, it has always been held at the Córdoba Golf Club in Córdoba. In 2001, Ángel Cabrera set the course record of 60 in the fi ...

in 2007.

Professional wins (19)

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

*1995 China Open

Argentine wins (3)

*1991 Mendoza Open *1999 Misiones Open *2000 Misiones Open

South American Tour wins (8)

*1992

Los Inkas Peru Open 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, ...

*1993 Paraguay Open *1994 Los Leones Open (Chile), Uruguay Open *1995

*1998 Argentine Masters,

Argentine Open The Argentine Open or Abierto de la República or Abierto de Argentina is one of the oldest national golf open championships. First played in 1905, when it was called the Open Championship of the River Plate, it has featured numerous notable winn ...

*2001 Mexico Masters

Other wins (7)

*1994 Chile Open *1995 Callaway Cup (Paraguay) *2001 Paraguay Open, Srixon Championship (USA, Montgomery Tour) *2002 Rio Grande Open (Brazil) *2005

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 p ...

*2008 Golf Tour 5 Tournament (Brazil)

Team appearances

Amateur * Eisenhower Trophy (representing Paraguay):

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*Los Andes Cup (South American Cup): 1989 Professional *

Alfred 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 Paraguay):

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

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 ...

* World Cup (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 ...

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 ...

References

External links

* Paraguayan male golfers Sportspeople from Asunción 1965 births Living people 20th-century Paraguayan people {{Paraguay-golf-bio-stub