Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero
Encyclopedia
The Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero is an annual golf
tournament held in Pereira
, Colombia
. It was founded in 2005 and became part of the Latin America
based Tour de las Américas
in 2010.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament held in Pereira
Pereira, Colombia
Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda. It stands in the center of the western region of the country, located in a small valley that descends from a part of the western Andes mountain chain. Its strategic location in the coffee producing area makes the city an urban...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
. It was founded in 2005 and became part of the Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
based Tour de las Américas
Tour de las Americas
The Tour de las Américas is the men's professional golf tour for Latin America.Top level tournament golf in Latin America has had an unstable history. Some of the national open championships in the region are long established, but they did not traditionally form a coherent tour...
in 2010.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 |  Óscar Álvarez |
271 (−13) |
| 2009 |  Ramón Franco |
266 (−18) |
| 2008 | Juan Carlos Echeverry |
271 (−13) |
| 2007 |  Rafael PonceRafael Ponce Rafael Ponce is one of the very few Ecuadorian professional golfers who has played on the international golf circuit. He has spent over a decade on the Asian Tour, where he has several top ten finishes... |
277 (−7) |
| 2006 |  Alejandro Villavicencio |
203 (−10) |
| 2005 | José Manuel Garrido |
269 (−15) |