Invitations have been accepted to compete in the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship, which will be held January 16-19, 2025, at Pilar Golf Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A list of confirmed players is available here.
Founded by the Masters Tournament, The R&A and the USGA in 2014, the Latin America Amateur Championship was established to further develop amateur golf in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The event, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025, annually moves to top courses throughout Latin America and showcases the sport’s rising talent in the region. Notable past competitors include Colombia’s Nico Echavarria and Sebastian Muñoz, Argentina’s Alejandro Tosti and Chile’s Cristobal Del Solar, Mito Pereira and Joaquin Niemann, the latter of which won the 2018 Championship. The champion receives an invitation to compete in the 2025 Masters Tournament and exemptions into The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush and the 125th U.S. Open at Oakmont.
Players from 29 IOC-recognized countries and territories from across Latin America will be represented in the 108-player field. The field is led by 15 players inside the top 200 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), including Mexico’s Omar Morales (No. 13), the Cayman Islands’ Justin Hastings (No. 43), Bolivia’s Jose Luis Montaño (No. 48), and Brazil’s Andrey Xavier (No. 53) and Herik Machado (No. 54). Morales, a senior at UCLA who was recently named to the Haskins Award Watch List, finished runner-up last year in Panama. Aaron Jarvis, the 2022 Latin America Amateur champion, will make his fifth start in the Championship.
In 2024, Mexico’s Santiago de la Fuente outdueled Morales with birdies on his final two holes for a two-stroke victory at Santa Maria Golf Club in Panama City, Panama. He went on to compete in the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open and The Open before turning professional at the end of the summer.
Opened in 1992 and designed by the Ronald Fream Group, Pilar Golf is home to 27 holes approximately 60 kilometers north of Buenos Aires. The course has hosted a diverse collection of events, including Argentina Opens, Argentina PGA Championships, the inaugural Latin America Amateur Championship in 2015 and multiple editions of the Women’s Amateur Latin America Championship. It is also home of the Argentina Golf Association.
