Misplaced Pages

2011 Tour de las Américas season

Duration	3 March 2011 (2011-03-03) – 18 December 2011 (2011-12-18)
Number of official events	17
Most wins	Benjamín Alvarado (2)
Order of Merit	Joaquín Estévez
← 2010 2012 →

The 2011 Tour de las Américas was the 20th season of the Tour de las Américas (formerly the South American Tour), the main professional golf tour in Latin America since it was formed in 1991.

OWGR inclusion

In August 2010, it was announced that all Tour de las Américas events, beginning in 2011, would receive Official World Golf Ranking points at the minimum level of 6 points for the winner of a 72-hole event.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2011 season.

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse (US$)	Winner	OWGR points	Other tours
6 Mar	Abierto de Chile	Chile	40,000	Benjamín Alvarado (1)	6
13 Mar	Abierto Internacional de Golf Copa Antioquia	Colombia	230,000	Joaquín Estévez (1)	12	CHA
20 Mar	Pacific Colombia Tour Barranquilla	Colombia	100,000	Cody Slover (n/a)	6	CAN
27 Mar	Pacific Colombia Tour Championship	Colombia	130,000	Adam Hadwin (n/a)	6	CAN
23 Apr	Abierto del Centro	Argentina	Arg$300,000	Héctor Céspedes (1)	6	TPG
22 May	Televisa TLA Players Championship	Mexico	70,000	Julián Etulain (3)	n/a
29 May	Toyota Peru Open	Peru	100,000	Benjamín Alvarado (2)	6
10 Jul	Abierto de Golf Ciudad de Bucaramanga	Colombia	50,000	Álvaro Arizabaleta (1)	6
17 Jul	Abierto Internacional de Golf Copa Sura	Colombia	50,000	César Costilla (2)	6
9 Oct	Aberto do Brasil	Brazil	160,000	Óscar David Álvarez (3)	6
16 Oct	Abierto Internacional de Golf Hacienda Chicureo Copa Claro	Chile	40,000	Paulo Pinto (4)	6
30 Oct	Abierto del Nordeste	Argentina	Arg$250,000	Emilio Domínguez (2)	6	TPG
6 Nov	Carlos Franco Invitational	Paraguay	40,000	Fabrizio Zanotti (2)	6	TPG
20 Nov	Roberto De Vicenzo Classic	Argentina	40,000	Nelson Ledesma (1)	6	TPG
4 Dec	Torneo de Maestros	Argentina	Arg$400,000	José Cóceres (1)	6	TPG
11 Dec	Visa Open de Argentina	Argentina	115,000	Maximiliano Godoy (1)	6	TPG
18 Dec	Abierto Sport Francés Copa Nissan	Chile	80,000	Francisco Cerda (1)	6

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.

Position	Player	Points
1	Joaquín Estévez	51,970
2	Benjamín Alvarado	48,800
3	César Costilla	45,006
4	Diego Vanegas	42,883
5	Julián Etulain	39,233

Notes

1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Tour de las Américas events they had won up to and including that tournament.
2. CAN − Canadian Tour; CHA − Challenge Tour; TPG − TPG Tour.

References

1. "Official World Golf Ranking board announces new directives". Official World Golf Ranking. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2023. The Board also agreed that the KPGA (Korean Golf Tour) and the TLA (Tour de Las Americas) should also be incorporated into the Ranking system from January 1 2011 on the same basis once the Technical Committee has liaised with the Tours concerned to establish their player listings and schedules.
2. "2011 Tournament schedule" (in Spanish). Tour de las Américas. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
3. "2011 Order of Merit" (PDF) (in Spanish). Tour de las Américas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
4. Villalobos, Gregory (18 December 2011). "Chileno Francisco Cerda sorpresivo campeón en el Sport Francés" [Chile's Francisco Cerda surprises champion at Sport Francés]. Golf Report Latino (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 March 2024. Tal y como se esperaba el argentino Joaquín Estévez culminó la temporada como el No. 1 de la Orden de Mérito... [As expected, Argentina's Joaquin Estevez finished the season as No. 1 on the Order of Merit...]

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)

• Tour de las Américas
• 2011 in golf
• 2011 in South American sport