2024 Results

Mexico's Santiago de la Fuente Wins Latin America Amateur Championship

Date	18-21 January 2024
Venue	Santa María Golf Club, Panama
Par	35-35-70
Length	7,153 yards
Opened	2012

Santiago de la Fuente became the second Mexican to lift the Latin America Amateur Championship after edging out his compatriot Omar Morales at Santa Maria Golf Club in Panama City, Panama on Sunday.

Starting the day three shots behind Morales, de la Fuente produced an excellent six-under-par 64 in blustery conditions to lift the Latin America Amateur trophy and secure his place in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 and The 152nd Open at Royal Troon.

De la Fuente finished with a 10-under total of 270, two shots clear of Morales with their nearest rivals Mateo Fuenmayor of Colombia and Justin Hastings from the Cayman Islands finishing in third and fourth at three-under and two-under, respectively.

Morales started the day in pole position, but a two-shot swing occurred on the second when he bogeyed as de la Fuente made birdie. The pair each tallied three birdies and one bogey throughout the remainder of the front nine, with Morales holding on to his one-shot lead at the turn.

De la Fuente moved level with a birdie at the 11th just as Morales’ putter went cold, and he could only play par golf from there. The 22-year-old de la Fuente, who was runner-up in 2022, saved his best for last, putting his approach to tap-in range for a birdie on the 17th and then holing a putt from 10 feet for a closing birdie to secure a remarkable two-shot win.

An emotional de la Fuente said, “It's a very unreal feeling. Even though I've been preparing myself for the winning moment, the winning put, visualizing myself, chasing the guy that's winning, winning by five. I visualized every scenario possible. Still feels unreal and still feels I don't think there's even words to describe it.”

2024 Results

Pos.	Player	Country	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Santiago de la Fuente	Mexico	-10	69	71	66	64	270
2	Omar Morales	Mexico	-8	69	69	65	69	272
3	Mateo Fuenmayor	Colombia	-3	71	68	68	70	277
4	Justin Hastings	Cayman Islands	-2	72	71	68	67	278
T5	Andrew Jarvis	Cayman Islands	3	72	72	72	67	283
T5	Carlos Ardila	Colombia	3	73	70	71	69	283
T5	Andrey Xavier	Brazil	3	71	69	71	72	283
T8	Segundo Oliva Pinto	Argentina	4	70	77	68	69	284
T8	Joaco Ludueña	Argentina	4	71	75	66	72	284
10	Manuel Lozada	Argentina	5	76	72	68	69	285
11	Vicente Marzilio	Argentina	6	71	70	74	71	286
T12	Matheus Balestrin	Brazil	7	74	71	72	70	287
T12	Alejandro Villavicencio	Guatemala	7	70	75	68	74	287
14	Virgilio Paz	Venezuela	8	73	70	69	76	288
T15	Miguel Ordoñez	Panama	9	77	70	72	70	289
T15	Erich Fortlage	Paraguay	9	75	72	70	72	289
T15	José Antonio Safa	Mexico	9	73	72	67	77	289
T18	Martín Cancino	Chile	10	73	72	75	70	290
T18	Mauricio Figueroa	Mexico	10	77	74	67	72	290
T18	Vicente Encina	Chile	10	78	72	66	74	290
T18	José Miguel Ramirez	Venezuela	10	71	73	70	76	290
T22	José Arzú	Guatemala	11	69	73	77	72	291
T22	Miguel Leal	Guatemala	11	77	77	68	69	291
T22	Gabriel Palacios	Guatemala	11	75	73	67	76	291
T25	Juan Martín Loureiro	Argentina	12	71	71	76	74	292
T25	Rhadamés Peña	Dominican Republic	12	77	76	70	69	292
T25	Patrick Sparks	Peru	12	78	73	73	68	292
T28	Max Alverio	Puerto Rico	13	74	76	70	73	293
T28	Facundo Moraga	Chile	13	76	75	71	71	293
T28	José Islas	Mexico	13	72	75	72	74	293
T28	Sebastian MacLean	Bolivia	13	75	74	69	75	293
T28	Hector Ortega	Paraguay	13	70	77	70	76	293
T28	Benjamin Fernández	Paraguay	13	79	74	72	68	293
34	Andy Schonbaum	Argentina	14	73	76	72	73	294
T35	Eduardo Galdos	Peru	15	82	69	70	74	295
T35	Raúl Carbonell	Panama	15	77	74	70	74	295
T35	Kelvin Hernández	Puerto Rico	15	71	81	70	73	295
T35	Evan Peña	Puerto Rico	15	78	72	74	71	295
T35	Lukas Roessler	Chile	15	76	74	68	77	295
T35	Omar Tejeira	Panama	15	75	78	71	71	295
T41	Juan Ricardo Davila Bone	Guatemala	16	81	73	70	72	296
T41	Aaron Jarvis	Cayman Islands	16	79	75	70	72	296
T43	Jeronimo Esteve	Puerto Rico	17	78	73	72	74	297
T43	Daniel Faccini	Colombia	17	80	72	72	73	297
T43	Rodrigo Huerta	Dominican Republic	17	77	74	73	73	297
T43	Philippe Thorin	Ecuador	17	76	71	78	72	297
T43	Diego Neira	Venezuela	17	82	72	71	72	297
T48	Juan Ignacio de Giacomi	Argentina	18	78	74	76	70	298
T48	Carlos Rodriguez	Colombia	18	75	77	74	72	298
50	Kurt Rivers	Turks and Caicos Islands	20	80	74	69	77	300
51	Ramiro Acevedo	Argentina	24	77	76	75	76	304
52	Carlos Hernández	Colombia	26	77	73	80	76	306
53	Ezequiel Cabrera	Paraguay	27	75	76	74	82	307
54	Samuel Duran	Panama	30	76	78	77	79	310
55	Diego Álvarez Perez	Panama	32	78	75	84	75	312
CUT	Carlos Clement	Panama	15	78	77			155
CUT	Flavio Sameja	Bolivia	15	82	73			155
CUT	Jean Paul Ducruet	Panama	15	77	78			155
CUT	Alvaro Ortiz	Costa Rica	15	78	77			155
CUT	Mateo Quiroga	Uruguay	15	77	78			155
CUT	Simon Roessler	Chile	15	77	78			155
CUT	Javier Correa	Ecuador	15	77	78			155
CUT	Elías Mardeni	Costa Rica	15	77	78			155
CUT	Juan Fernando Castellanos	El Salvador	16	77	79			156
CUT	Rocco Saraceni	Venezuela	16	78	78			156
CUT	Juan Angel	Colombia	17	83	74			157
CUT	Michael Mikus	Costa Rica	17	77	80			157
CUT	Zandra Roye	Jamaica	17	77	80			157
CUT	Miguel Reyes	Uruguay	17	78	79			157
CUT	Liam Bryden	Trinidad and Tobago	17	81	76			157
CUT	Pablo Lacayo	Nicaragua	17	79	78			157
CUT	Marcos Negrini	Brazil	18	82	76			158
CUT	Min Jae Kim	Honduras	18	81	77			158
CUT	Martin de Leon	Uruguay	18	79	79			158
CUT	Nicholas Teuten	Uruguay	18	81	77			158
CUT	Richard Gibson Jr.	Bahamas	19	78	81			159
CUT	Guillermo Rothe	Costa Rica	19	80	79			159
CUT	Rodrigo Vazquez	Mexico	19	79	80			159
CUT	Vicente Quiroga	Bolivia	19	82	77			159
CUT	Franco Fernández	Paraguay	19	74	85			159
CUT	Cristian Terceros	Bolivia	20	79	81			160
CUT	Tino Flores	El Salvador	20	81	79			160
CUT	Alejandro Rivas	Venezuela	20	82	78			160
CUT	Homero de Toledo	Brazil	20	77	83			160
CUT	Camilo Avila	Bolivia	21	85	76			161
CUT	Juan Camilo Malagon	Colombia	21	86	75			161
CUT	Jean-Philippe Mehu	Haiti	21	82	79			161
CUT	Thomas Choi	Brazil	21	81	80			161
CUT	Jean Louis Ducruet	Panama	21	81	80			161
CUT	Simon Proverbs	Barbados	21	78	83			161
CUT	Daniel Cano	Paraguay	21	79	82			161
CUT	Oshae Haye	Jamaica	21	79	82			161
CUT	Mauricio Tello	Peru	22	85	77			162
CUT	Xzavier Wiggins	Barbados	22	84	78			162
CUT	Gustavo Giacometti	Brazil	22	80	82			162
CUT	Benjamin Chavez	Bolivia	22	80	82			162
CUT	Mario Maya Benatuil	Venezuela	23	85	78			163
CUT	Guilherme Ziccardi	Brazil	23	81	82			163
CUT	Juan Velásquez	Colombia	24	78	86			164
CUT	Jose Luis Vargas	Bolivia	24	78	86			164
CUT	Jarryd Dillas	Bermuda	24	83	81			164
CUT	Paco Sabater Casini	Brazil	26	81	85			166
CUT	Adam Perry	Bermuda	27	88	79			167
CUT	Carlos Álvarez	Honduras	28	84	84			168
CUT	Jose Ignacio Monge	Costa Rica	31	85	86			171
CUT	Juan Pedro Altamirano	Uruguay	32	81	91			172
CUT	Nolan Johnson	Bahamas	33	88	85			173
CUT	Joseph Sibilly	Virgin Islands, U.S.	36	87	89			176