Wager wire12/31/2023 ![]() Nicolás Echavarría (Colombia), 2018 Sao Paulo Golf Club Championship Jared Wolfe (U.S.), 2017 BMW Jamaica Classicīrian Richey (U.S.), 2017 Roberto De Vicenzo Punta del Este Open Tee-k Kelly (U.S.), 2017 Puerto Plata DR Open The following are the previous five players to hold the outright lead (no ties) to win from start to finish: The Argentines have the most wins among Latin American countries that have had winners on Tour.Īlan Wagner became the sixth player to win a PGA TOUR Latinoamérica tournament in wire-to-wire fashion. I’m going to do my best effort in order for that to happen,” concluded the Olavarría, Buenos Aires, native.Īlan Wagner’s win was the 34th win recorded by Argentine players on PGA TOUR Latinoamérica. “All of a sudden I’m dreaming of making it to the Korn Ferry Tour. With the victory, Wagner collected 500 Totalplay Cup point to move into second on the Totalplay Cup Points List, only 145 points behind Fernández Valdés, who won last week’s season-opening VISA Open de Argentina in Buenos Aires. I had 185 yards to the pin, and I hit a 5-iron within 15 feet and two-putted for the win,” added Wagner of a hole where Fernández Valdés made par to finish at 14-under and Benítez parred, leaving him at 13-under. “In one of the tightest fairways we play on Tour, I hit an arrow right in the middle. Playing one group ahead and finishing birdie-par-birdie-eagle-par, Blanchet carded a 69 to secure the clubhouse lead, at 14-under.Īt the last, a narrow 524-yard par-5 playing uphill, Wagner hit a great drive off the tee. The three-way tie remained until the par-5 17th, where both Wagner and Fernández Valdés made birdie to get to 14-under. After his only bogey of the day on hole 5, he saw Benítez and Fernández Valdés move past him, but he stayed within one shot until both of them bogeyed 14 to make it a three-way tie for the lead, at 13-under. Wagner entered the day one shot ahead of Mexico’s Isidro Benítez and two strokes clear of Fernández Valdés, his playing partners on the final day. To have everything working together this well makes me very proud of the work I have done with the team that surrounds me.” “I have been working extremely hard for the past five years, from a psychological and technical standpoint. “All the pieces suddenly came together,” Wagner said. It’s so satisfying to be in this position once again,” said Wagner after a victory that resurrects his career at the start of the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica’s 10th-anniversary season. Almost 10 years went by since my last win on this Tour, with a lot of things happening in between. “It’s a huge joy, a pleasure, an indescribable satisfaction. The champion finished the week at 15-under 273, returning to the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica’s winners’ circle 3,344 days (9 years, 1 month, 28 days) after his victory at the 2012 Roberto De Vicenzo Invitational during the Tour’s inaugural season. Wagner birdied the final two holes Sunday for a one-shot win over his countryman Jorge Fernández Valdés and American Chandler Blanchet.īack-to-back rounds of 1-under 71 proved enough the final two days for Wagner to prevail on a tight, firm Club de Golf Sport Francés. Holding the outright lead after an opening, 10-under 62, the 32-year-old Argentine managed to defend the top spot for an impressive wire-to-wire victory at the Scotia Wealth Management presented by Volvo. SANTIAGO, CHILE-What a week for Alan Wagner.
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