The 2018 PGA Tour Latinoamérica was the seventh season of
PGA Tour Latinoamérica
PGA Tour Latinoamérica is a third level professional golf tour formed in 2012 and operated by the PGA Tour. It was formed in concert with the now defunct Tour de las Américas. Executives from the Tour de las Américas became employees of the ne ...
. PGA Tour Latinoamérica was operated and run by the
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
. The season began in March at the
Stella Artois Open
The Stella Artois Open was a men's professional golf tournament on PGA Tour Latinoamérica played on the Fuego Maya Golf Course at La Reunion Golf Resort in Antigua, Guatemala. The tournament was first played in 2014 as one of the new events intr ...
in
Antigua, Guatemala
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and concluded in December at the
Shell Championship
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Architecture and design
* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
** Thin-shell structure
Science Biology
* Seashell, a hard ...
at
Trump National Doral Miami
Trump National Doral Miami is a golf resort in Doral in South Florida in the United States. It was founded by real estate pioneer Alfred Kaskel in 1962, with the name "Doral" coming from an amalgamation of the first names of Kaskel and his wife, ...
, marking the return of a PGA Tour-sanctioned event to the Miami resort that hosted events from 1962 to 2016.
Schedule
The table below shows the 2018 schedule. "Date" is the ending date of each event. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on tour up to and including that event. OWGR is the number of
Official World Golf Ranking
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986.
The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
points awarded for that tournament. All tournaments had a purse of US$175,000, except the
Bupa Match Play
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Bupa's origins and global headquarters are in the United Kingdom. Its main countrie ...
which has a purse of $125,000.
Order of Merit
As in previous seasons, the top five players on the tour, known as 'Los Cinco', earned status to play on the
2019 Web.com Tour
The 2019 Korn Ferry Tour was the 30th season of the top developmental tour for the PGA Tour in men's golf. The season began under the Web.com Tour name but changed in June to the Korn Ferry Tour. The season ran from January 13 to September 2 and c ...
. This was based on the leaders on the Order of Merit after the conclusion of the season.
References
{{PGA Tour Latinoamérica seasons
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