2015 Results

Matias Dominguez Wins 2015 Latin America Amateur Championship

Date	January 15-18, 2015
Venue	Pilar Golf, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Par	36-36-72
Length	7,255 yards
Opened	1992

Matias Dominguez, of Chile, holed a short bogey putt on the 72nd hole to hold off Alejandro Tosti, of Argentina, by one stroke and capture the inaugural Latin America Amateur Championship with an 11-under-par total of 277 at Pilar Golf course outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dominguez earned an exemption into the 2015 Masters Tournament, as well as exemptions into The Amateur Championship (conducted by The R&A) and the U.S. Amateur Championship (conducted by the United States Golf Association). He also earned spots in final qualifying for The Open 2015 and the 2015 U.S. Open.

Dominguez, 22, the third-round leader by one stroke over Tosti, carded a final-round 71 as the championship came down to a near match-play situation between the two competitors. Dominguez led by three strokes after nine holes, but the lead was whittled to one when Tosti birdied the 303-yard, par-4 15th after driving the green and Dominguez bogeyed the next hole, the par-4 16th.

The 178-yard, par-3 17th proved pivotal. Tosti hit his tee shot to 20 feet, inside Dominguez, who was on the fringe. But Dominguez putted up to tap-in range, and Tosti knocked his birdie try 4 feet past the hole, then missed his par putt to restore Dominguez’s margin to two strokes with one hole to play.

Dominguez played conservatively on the par-4 18th, which features water on the right and in front of the green, and tapped in for bogey from 2 feet to earn the victory after Tosti made him earn it by saving his own par from 5 feet.

“It was going well until probably the 13th hole,” said Dominguez, who won the tournament as a senior at Texas Tech University. “The crowd made it really hard for me to focus. It’s almost impossible to keep calm in that position, but I tried to do my best. On that short putt [on No. 18], I couldn’t even feel anything.”

Venue Information

Established in 1992, Pilar Golf has hosted the Argentina Open twice (2006, 2011), the Argentina PGA

Championship twice (2002, 2003), the Argentina Stroke Play Amateur three times (1994, 2000, 2005) and is home to the Argentina Golf Association National Training Center.

Weather

The final round was suspended at 11:45 a.m. for four hours by rain and wet conditions with the final two groupings playing the seventh hole, resuming at 3:45 p.m.

2015 Results

POS	PLAYER	COUNTRY	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOTAL	SCORE
1	Matias Dominguez	CHI	72	65	69	71	277	-11
2	Alejandro Tosti	ARG	69	70	68	71	278	-10
T3	Alvaro Ortiz	MEX	68	73	71	67	279	-9
T3	Andre Tourinho	BRA	70	66	75	68	279	-9
T5	Guillermo Pereira	CHI	71	70	72	69	282	-6
T5	Santiago Gomez	COL	69	75	70	68	282	-6
7	Joaquin Bonjour	ARG	69	68	73	74	284	-4
T8	Jose Luis Montano	BOL	71	73	69	72	285	-3
T8	Juan Sebastian Munoz	COL	69	70	71	75	285	-3
10	Jorge Garcia	VEN	71	75	70	70	286	-2
T11	Matias Simaski	ARG	73	71	71	72	287	-1
T11	Luis Gerardo Garza	MEX	72	73	70	72	287	-1
T13	Jose Mendez	CRC	73	68	72	75	288	E
T13	Santiago Bauni	ARG	72	68	72	76	288	E
T15	Erick Juan Morales	PUR	77	72	68	72	289	1
T15	Esteban Restrepo	COL	73	74	72	70	289	1
T15	Juan Miguel Heredia	ECU	73	75	73	68	289	1
T15	Santiago Mejia	COL	76	73	67	73	289	1
T19	Nicolas Echavarria	COL	72	71	74	73	290	2
T19	Juan Alvarez	URU	68	70	74	78	290	2
T19	Edward Figueroa	PUR	72	74	74	70	290	2
T19	Gaston Bertinotti	ARG	68	78	66	78	290	2
23	Lucas Rosso	CHI	69	72	79	71	291	3
T24	Daniel Gurtner	GUA	78	73	70	71	292	4
T24	Jaime Lopez Rivarola	ARG	69	77	76	70	292	4
T24	Ian Facey	JAM	68	77	75	72	292	4
T27	Rodrigo Rivas Munoz	CHI	71	74	75	73	293	5
T27	Jose Narro	MEX	69	78	75	71	293	5
T27	Sebastian Barnoya	GUA	72	79	72	70	293	5
T27	Alvaro E. Ortiz	CRC	71	72	75	75	293	5
T31	Dorian Delmas	PAR	71	73	75	75	294	6
T31	Robi Calvesbert	PUR	72	73	74	75	294	6
T31	Joaquin Niemann	CHI	75	72	73	74	294	6
T34	George Scanlon	BOL	72	77	74	73	296	8
T34	Daniel Kenji Ishii	BRA	72	74	79	71	296	8
T36	Roberto Ruiz	MEX	77	72	71	77	297	9
T36	George Trujillo	VEN	75	73	74	75	297	9
T36	Paul Chaplet	CRC	72	71	81	73	297	9
T39	Andres Gallegos	ARG	75	72	79	72	298	10
T39	Devaughn Robinson	BAH	75	75	76	72	298	10
T39	Jesus Dario Montenegro	ARG	71	78	70	79	298	10
T39	Jose O. Rodriguez	PUR	73	77	74	74	298	10
T39	Ivan Camilo Ramirez	COL	78	68	75	77	298	10
T44	Herik Machado	BRA	76	74	73	76	299	11
T44	Jose Andres Miranda	ECU	75	75	73	76	299	11
T44	Pedro Junqueira	BRA	72	75	76	76	299	11
T44	Jose Pablo Rolz	GUA	73	73	77	76	299	11
T48	Alejandro Perazzo	VEN	76	73	77	74	300	12
T48	Juan Ignacio Garmendia	ARG	71	73	81	75	300	12
T50	Tomaz Pimenta Pinheiro	BRA	77	73	78	73	301	13
T50	Jarryd Dillas	BER	74	78	71	78	301	13
T50	Jonathan Newnham	JAM	73	77	79	72	301	13
T50	Matthew Marquez	TTO	74	74	80	73	301	13
T54	Gustavo Silva	CHI	77	74	76	75	302	14
T54	Jeronimo Esteve	PUR	71	75	82	74	302	14
T54	Talin Rajendranath	TTO	74	74	76	78	302	14
57	Patrick Sanchez	MEX	79	71	76	77	303	15
58	Sergio Roman	ECU	76	75	74	79	304	16
59	Aaron Terrazas	MEX	73	71	78	83	305	17
60	Wolfgang Pedal	PER	77	75	77	77	306	18
61	Juan Jose Guerra	DOM	75	77	80	76	308	20
62	Marcelo Wilde	BOL	72	78	79	80	309	21
MC	Andres Rodas	GUA	80	73
MC	Michael Wight	CAY	73	80
MC	Enrique Grau	PER	78	76
MC	Miguel Ordonez	PAN	80	74
MC	Mark Phillips	BER	77	77
MC	Alejandro Valenzuela	BOL	80	74
MC	Fraser Hunt	BER	77	77
MC	Johann Voss	BOL	79	76
MC	James Johnson	BAR	78	77
MC	Jose Hernandez	DOM	78	77
MC	Nicholas Teuten	URU	76	79
MC	Esteban Missura	ECU	77	78
MC	Eithel McGowen	PER	81	74
MC	Sachin Kumar	TTO	73	83
MC	Kevin Muriel	BOL	76	80
MC	Facundo Alvarez	URU	80	76
MC	Kevin O’Connell	ISV	71	85
MC	Juan Moncayo	ECU	75	82
MC	Alonso Palma	PER	77	80
MC	Agustin Acosta	URU	80	77
MC	Jose L. Cardona	PUR	79	78
MC	Christian Graf	PER	82	75
MC	Juan de la Cruz	ARG	77	80
MC	Inaki Lopez	URU	76	81
MC	Payten Wight	CAY	77	80
MC	Rafael Barnoya	GUA	83	75
MC	Pedro Oviedo	VEN	78	80
MC	Kevin Ferris	ISV	73	85
MC	Jose Xavier Perez	ECU	77	82
MC	Julian Jordan	BAR	83	77
MC	Luiz Antonio Braga Jacintho	BRA	74	86
MC	Scott Stollmeyer	BAR	84	78
MC	Adrian Delmas	PAR	83	79
MC	Dinesh Jackree	TTO	81	83
MC	Federico Levinsky	URU	76	88
MC	Will Shoreman	TCA	79	85
MC	Jose Chagin	VEN	79	86
MC	Roland Cuculiza	NCA	78	87
MC	Juan Pablo Ortiz	GUA	86	80
MC	William Fookes	VEN	84	83
MC	Ernesto Marin	NCA	81	86
MC	Romanus Inglis	LCA	83	85
MC	Ricardo Arias	ESA	86	83
MC	Canice Louis	LCA	89	93
MC	Sebastian Bettaglio	ESA	107	96
MC	Gerald Mathias	HAI	108	115
WD	Benjamin Davis	BAH	82