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Camilo Villegas Profile |
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Birth Date: January 7, 1982
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Birth Place: Medellín, Colombia
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Birth Name: Camilo Villegas Restrepo
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Camilo Villegas is a Colombian professional golfer who plays
on the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up the
game as a child. After several different National Junior
Championships in Colombia in the ages between 8 - 15, at 16
he became the first player in Colombian golf history to win
the Amateur's Grand Slam in the same year: The National
Junior Championship (stroke play), the National Junior
Championship (match play), the National Amateur
Championship, and the Colombian Open in the amateur
category. Then, in 2001 he became only the second player to
win the Colombian Open as an amateur. His success in
Colombian golf throughout the 1990s earned him the
distinction of "Player of the Decade" issued by the
Colombian Golf Federation.
Villegas earned a scholarship to play collegiate golf at the
University of Florida. He was a four-time All American
there, and was the Southeastern Conference Player of the
Year in 2002 and 2004. |
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