BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The Masters Event, The R&A and the USGA introduced on Thursday that the tenth Latin America Beginner Championship will probably be contested at Pilar Golf in Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 16-19, 2025.
The Latin America Beginner will return to Pilar Golf 10 years after the inaugural Championship was held on the course in 2015.
Based by the Masters Event, The R&A and the USGA in 2014, the Latin America Beginner Championship was established to additional develop beginner golf in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
The occasion yearly strikes to high programs all through Latin America and showcases the game’s rising expertise within the area, and the champion receives an invite to compete within the Masters Event and exemptions into The Open and the U.S. Open.
“We wished to have a good time the tenth anniversary of the inception of the Latin America Beginner Championship by returning to Pilar Golf the place all of it started,” mentioned Martin Slumbers, CEO of The R&A.
“In that point we have now seen future stars and the easiest males’s beginner golfers in Latin America compete on the highest degree on this Championship.
“It would proceed to go from power to power within the years to return and we are able to sit up for one other incredible {golfing} showcase subsequent 12 months in Argentina.”
Notable previous rivals embrace Colombia’s Nico Echavarria and Sebastian Muñoz, Argentina’s Alejandro Tosti and Chile’s Mito Pereira and Joaquin Niemann, the latter of whom received the 2018 Championship. Chile’s Matías Domínguez held off Tosti by one stroke to win the primary Latin America Beginner at Pilar Golf in 2015, a area that additionally included Echavarria, Muñoz, Niemann and Pereira.
“It’s an honour for Pilar Golf to host the Latin America Beginner Championship for the second time,” mentioned Mauro Misuraca, President and Proprietor of Pilar Golf. “Pilar Golf will present a real take a look at for the highest gamers throughout Latin America.”
Opened in 1992 and designed by the Ronald Fream Group, Pilar Golf is dwelling to 27 holes roughly 60 kilometers north of Buenos Aires. The course has hosted a various assortment of occasions, together with Argentina Opens, Argentina PGA Championships, the inaugural Latin America Beginner Championship and a number of editions of the Girls’s Beginner Latin America Championship. It’s also dwelling of the Argentina Golf Affiliation.
“Golf in our area continues to develop, and we’re ready to showcase the perfect of Argentine golf subsequent 12 months at Pilar Golf,” mentioned Andrés Schönbaum, President of the Argentina Golf Affiliation.
“This Championship has develop into crucial occasion for Latin American males’s amateurs and we’re excited to welcome the subsequent era of potential future stars again in 2025.”
For extra info on the Latin America Beginner Championship, please go to LAACgolf.com.
