The Colombian will be one of the big attractions at the tournament to be held next week at the Prince of Wales Country Club in the capital.
Great news has been received by golf fans across the country, after The participation of Colombian Camilo Villegas in the Astara Chile Classic will be confirmed a tournament that will begin with its first round next Thursday, March 30 at Prince of Wales Country Club of La Reina .
Cafe Athlete will be one of the big attractions of the event belonging to the Korn Ferry PGA Tour given its status as leader in all-time earnings rankings among Latin American golfers, with over $21 million in prize money .
In addition, in his track record he has the titles of BMW Championship and the 2008 Circuit Championship he Honda Classic 2010 and the 2014 Wyndham Championship .
Villegas, who participated in the Chilean tournament as a former member of the PGA Tour without exception for at least five consecutive seasons, played two events in the current Korn Ferry Tour season, making the cut in one of them .
His last championship on this circuit was the Astara Bogota Golf Championship while on the PGA Tour, he was present at the Puerto Rico Open contest in which he finished in 48th place.
Regarding the confirmation of the coffee grower, Alejandro Perico -national tournament director- told the competition’s official website that “We are proud that a player of the career and category of Camilo Villegas has chosen to play the Astara Chile Classic” .
In this sense, he added that “Camilo joins the list of great golfers who have played our tournament and this confirms the confidence they have in our trajectory” concluded on this.
It should be mentioned that the competition who returns to the country after eight years and distributes a million dollars in prizes counted in previous editions with athletes of the level of Justin Thomas, Tony Finau, Kevin Kisner, Adam Hadwin, Daniel Berger, Russel Knox, Patrick Rodgers and Chilean Mito Pereira among others.
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