Camilo Villegas To Play The World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
Camilo Villegas, a three-time PGA TOUR winner from Colombia will be making his first start in Mexico’s only PGA TOUR event.
Camilo Villegas, a three-time PGA TOUR winner from Colombia will be making his first start in Mexico’s only PGA TOUR event.
In 2008 Villegas won the BMW Championship and THE TOUR Championship to finish second in the FedEx Cup playoffs.
He is the first Columbian to win on TOUR and is famous for his homemade putting routine: while he reads a putt, he crouches down parallel to the ground without touching it, extending his left leg back while balancing with his right leg and his putter to get a better view of the slope of the green. He is given the nickname "Hombre Araña" (Spiderman) for this posture.
Villegas earned his PGA TOUR card just prior to the 2006 season. He had a blistering start to his 2006 rookie year on tour, with two second place finishes and a third place in his first nine events. Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up golf as a child.
Camilo Villegas, along with other Latin players from Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela, will be part of the strongest Latin American field in the history of the event.
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