2026 Results

Mateo Pulcini Wins 2026 Latin America Amateur Championship

Date	15-18 January 2026
Venue	Lima Golf Club, Peru
Par	35-35-70
Length	6,804 yards
Opened	1924

Mateo Pulcini of Argentina lifts the LAAC trophy

Argentina’s Mateo Pulcini clinched a dramatic playoff victory over Virgilio Paz Valdes of Venezuela to win the 2026 Latin America Amateur Championship at Lima Golf Club on Sunday.

The 25-year-old achieved top-10 finishes in his two previous LAAC appearances and before breaking through this week to claim the Latin America Amateur trophy and secure places in the Masters Tournament, the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills and The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale.

Pulcini secured his win on the second playoff hole – the par-4 18th – when Paz Valdes overshot the green with his approach to land in the trees. Paz Valdes, a University of Missouri senior, chipped back out on to the green but failed to save par from 25 feet, leaving Pulcini to seal the win with a comfortable two-putt from the front edge.

The No. 174 amateur in the world becomes the oldest champion in the 11-year history of the Latin America Amateur and the third from Argentina after 2020 winner Abel Gallegos and 2023 winner Mateo Fernández de Oliveira.

2026 Results

Pos	Player	Country	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Mateo Pulcini	Argentina	-5	69	68	70	68	275
2	Virgilio Paz Valdes	Venezuela	-5	70	73	64	68	275
T3	Tomas Restrepo	Colombia	-3	70	68	70	69	277
T3	Erich Fortlage	Paraguay	-3	71	66	70	70	277
5	Segundo Oliva Pinto	Argentina	-2	72	69	64	73	278
6	Herik Machado	Brazil	-1	74	72	68	65	279
T7	Eduardo Derbez	Mexico	E	68	73	66	73	280
T7	Andy Schonbaum	Argentina	E	66	68	72	74	280
T9	Leandro Mihaich	Argentina	1	69	69	76	67	281
T9	Renato Naula	Ecuador	1	72	71	69	69	281
T11	Santiago Rivas Llano	Colombia	2	73	68	71	70	282
T11	Eduardo Matarazzo	Brazil	2	74	66	66	76	282
T13	Felipe Garces Garzon	Ecuador	3	71	68	73	71	283
T13	Flavio Sameja	Bolivia	3	73	71	66	73	283
T13	Andrés Martínez Benedetti	Venezuela	3	66	70	73	74	283
T16	Patrick Sparks	Peru	4	70	69	77	68	284
T16	Andrey Xavier	Brazil	4	70	72	72	70	284
T18	Jose Antonio Safa	Mexico	5	69	73	74	69	285
T18	Guilherme Grinberg	Brazil	5	72	72	71	70	285
T18	Carlos Astiazaran	Mexico	5	70	72	70	73	285
T18	Aaron Jarvis	Cayman Islands	5	71	74	66	74	285
T22	Mauricio Tello	Peru	6	70	74	73	69	286
T22	Benjamin Fernández	Paraguay	6	73	69	71	73	286
T24	Kelvin Hernandez	Puerto Rico	7	71	76	71	69	287
T24	Juan Martín Loureiro	Argentina	7	78	69	71	69	287
T26	Matheus Balestrin	Brazil	8	75	70	72	71	288
T26	Franco Fernández	Paraguay	8	73	74	67	74	288
T26	Jeronimo Esteve	Puerto Rico	8	76	71	71	70	288
T26	Rafael Claux	Peru	8	75	72	72	69	288
T26	Gerardo Gómez	Mexico	8	71	71	70	76	288
T31	Daniel Faccini	Colombia	9	73	73	71	72	289
T31	Carlos Ardila	Colombia	9	69	76	71	73	289
T31	Miguel Ordoñez	Panama	9	73	69	75	72	289
T31	Lucca Gonzalez	Panama	9	77	71	70	71	289
T31	Rafael Abad	Venezuela	9	70	71	72	76	289
T31	Juan Pablo Motta	Panama	9	73	75	70	71	289
T31	Gabriel Palacios	Guatemala	9	68	72	72	77	289
T38	Emilio Velez	Colombia	10	75	72	69	74	290
T38	Cristian Terceros	Bolivia	10	72	73	73	72	290
T38	Vicente Quiroga	Bolivia	10	72	76	70	72	290
T38	Martín Cancino	Chile	10	73	71	69	77	290
42	Max Alverio	Puerto Rico	11	72	74	71	74	291
T43	Christian Muñoz	Peru	12	76	66	78	72	292
T43	Jaime Yzaga	Peru	12	77	70	73	72	292
T43	Héctor González Cramer	Mexico	12	71	77	72	72	292
T46	Rhadames Peña	Dominican Republic	13	77	71	70	75	293
T46	Omar Tejeira Jaén	Panama	13	75	72	73	73	293
T48	Erick Morales	Puerto Rico	16	78	67	73	78	296
T48	Clemente Silva	Chile	16	71	74	76	75	296
50	Edison Wu	Costa Rica	17	71	76	75	75	297
T51	Evan Peña	Puerto Rico	19	74	74	79	72	299
T51	Marcelo Ruiz	Paraguay	19	76	72	78	73	299
T53	Christopher Richards	Trinidad and Tobago	20	74	73	74	79	300
T53	Hugo Mayorga Mata	Guatemala	20	77	69	79	75	300
55	Matias Calderón	Guatemala	22	76	71	73	82	302
56	Richard Gibson Jr.	Bahamas	25	72	75	79	79	305
CUT	Sam Duran	Panama	9	75	74			149
CUT	Raul Carbonell	Panama	9	73	76			149
CUT	Carlos Treviño Derbez	Mexico	9	68	81			149
CUT	Luka Peterman	Costa Rica	9	76	73			149
CUT	Pablo Lacayo	Nicaragua	10	78	72			150
CUT	Enrique Valverde	Dominican Republic	10	75	75			150
CUT	Tiago Ledgard	Peru	11	79	72			151
CUT	Alexander Rubin	Guatemala	11	75	76			151
CUT	Andrew Jarvis	Cayman Islands	11	76	75			151
CUT	Kurt Rivers	Turks and Caicos Islands	11	75	76			151
CUT	Yadhu Urs	Saint Lucia	11	79	72			151
CUT	Simón Roessler	Chile	11	78	73			151
CUT	Sebastian Barnoya	Guatemala	11	73	78			151
CUT	Eduardo Marin	Nicaragua	11	77	74			151
CUT	Matías Monasterio	Bolivia	12	78	74			152
CUT	Oliver Betschart	Bermuda	12	73	79			152
CUT	Santiago Schele	Chile	12	79	73			152
CUT	Martín Sandoval	Chile	12	79	73			152
CUT	Liam Bryden	Trinidad and Tobago	12	76	76			152
CUT	Alejandro Caraballo	Puerto Rico	13	80	73			153
CUT	Xzavier Wiggins	Barbados	13	77	76			153
CUT	Jose Luis Montaño	Bolivia	13	77	76			153
CUT	Jorge Andres Corchuelo Conde	Colombia	13	73	80			153
CUT	Mateo Gavilanes Garzon	Ecuador	14	76	78			154
CUT	Eric West	Bermuda	14	79	75			154
CUT	Rodrigo Huerta	Dominican Republic	15	81	74			155
CUT	Simon Proverbs	Barbados	15	76	79			155
CUT	Juan Fernando Castellanos	El Salvador	15	79	76			155
CUT	Juan Delgado	Dominican Republic	15	79	76			155
CUT	Benjamin Chavez	Bolivia	15	80	75			155
CUT	Ramiro Perez Orliacq	Argentina	15	80	75			155
CUT	Javier Correa	Ecuador	16	81	75			156
CUT	Carlos Álvarez	Honduras	17	80	77			157
CUT	David Albuja	Ecuador	17	84	73			157
CUT	Jose Ignacio Monge	Costa Rica	17	82	75			157
CUT	Alejandro Rivas	Venezuela	17	82	75			157
CUT	Jorge Andres Reyes	Guatemala	17	76	81			157
CUT	Arnoldo Calvo	Costa Rica	18	81	77			158
CUT	Ezequiel Cabrera Franco	Paraguay	18	78	80			158
CUT	Zandre Roye	Jamaica	19	79	80			159
CUT	PJ Carrere	Uruguay	19	81	78			159
CUT	Matthew Vital	Haiti	21	77	84			161
CUT	Carlos Rojas Simon	Honduras	21	80	81			161
CUT	Jose Lopez	Mexico	22	82	80			162
CUT	Juan Vial	Chile	22	83	79			162
CUT	Guillermo Rothe	Costa Rica	22	83	79			162
CUT	Oshae Haye	Jamaica	23	83	80			163
CUT	Wilber Alvarado	El Salvador	25	83	82			165
CUT	Marcos Negrini	Brazil	27	82	85			167
CUT	Lynford Miller	Bahamas	30	87	83			170
CUT	Joseph Sibilly Jr.	U.S. Virgin Islands	38	91	87			178