2023 Results

Argentina's Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira Wins Latin America Amateur Championship

Date	12-15 January 2023
Venue	Grand Reserve Golf Club, Puerto Rico
Par	36-36-72
Length	7,316 yards
Opened	2006

Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira of Argentina lifts the Latin America Amateur Championship trophy

Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira swept to a record-breaking victory in the 2023 Latin America Amateur Championship at Grand Reserve Golf Club in Puerto Rico.

As the 2022 runner-up, Fernandez de Oliveira came back to the 2023 Championship with a vengeance. Finishing all four rounds in the 60s, with a low third round score of 63, he finished four ahead of runner-up Luis Carrera of Mexico. His final score of a 23-under-par 265 broke the previous 72-hole Championship record of 273 set by Joaquin Niemann in 2018.

Despite pressure from Carrera, who at one point narrowed the gap to only two shots, Fernandez de Oliveira remained calm and rolled in two consecutive birdies at Nos. 11 and 12.

A string of pars on the way home ensured a memorable victory for the University of Arkansas student, who volunteered as a scoreboard carrier in the first ever playing of the Latin America Amateur Championship at Pilar Golf in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2015.

Fernandez de Oliveira became the second Argentinian to lift the trophy and did so on the eve of his twenty-third birthday.

“I'm still very shocked. I think my life has changed,” said Fernandez de Oliveira. “I'm looking forward to a great year. I'm going to take advantage of the three opportunities that I've been given for winning this event. So I'm very happy and I just want to enjoy every second of it.”

With his win, he earned an invitation to the 2023 Masters Tournament, an exemption for the first time into the U.S. Open at The Los Angeles Country Club and an exemption for The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool, where his compatriot Roberto De Vicenzo famously lifted the Claret Jug in 1967.

Fernandez de Oliveira’s victory made him the eighth overall champion after the victories of Chileans Matías Domínguez (2015), Toto Gana (2016) and Joaquin Niemann (2018), the Costa Rican Paul Chaplet (2017), the Mexican Alvaro Ortiz (2019), Argentinian Abel Gallegos (2020) and Aaron Jarvis of the Cayman Islands (2022).

2023 Results

Pos.	Player	Country	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira	Argentina	-23	68	67	63	67	265
2	Luis Carrera	Mexico	-19	67	67	68	67	269
3	Vicente Marzilio	Argentina	-17	67	70	66	68	271
4	José Islas	Mexico	-15	73	68	67	65	273
5	Manuel Lozada	Argentina	-14	69	69	68	68	274
6	Julian Perico	Peru	-13	70	66	67	72	275
7	Fred Biondi	Brazil	-12	70	72	69	65	276
8	Jeronimo Esteve	Puerto Rico	-9	69	73	69	68	279
T9	Roberto Nieves	Puerto Rico	-8	72	70	69	69	280
T9	Santiago de la Fuente	Mexico	-8	67	71	71	71	280
T9	Mateo Pulcini	Argentina	-8	72	68	68	72	280
T12	Erich Fortlage	Paraguay	-7	74	68	70	69	281
T12	Juan Ricardo Davila	Guatemala	-7	73	71	68	69	281
T12	Juan Velásquez	Colombia	-7	72	73	65	71	281
T15	Segundo Oliva Pinto	Argentina	-6	72	74	68	68	282
T15	Alejandro Villavicencio	Guatemala	-6	70	71	73	68	282
T17	Aaron Jarvis	Cayman Islands	-4	72	70	72	70	284
T17	Martín Cancino	Chile	-4	67	72	73	72	284
T19	Justin Hastings	Cayman Islands	-3	70	74	71	70	285
T19	Richard Gibson Jr.	Bahamas	-3	73	71	71	70	285
T19	Yadhu Urs	Saint Lucia	-3	70	74	70	71	285
T19	Ian Aldarondo Hernández	Puerto Rico	-3	72	71	71	71	285
T23	Andy Schonbaum	Argentina	-2	69	75	73	69	286
T23	Diego Saavedra Dávila	Puerto Rico	-2	72	71	69	74	286
T23	José Antonio Safa	Mexico	-2	71	76	72	67	286
T26	Omar Tejeira	Panama	-1	75	70	71	71	287
T26	Eduardo Derbez Torres	Mexico	-1	69	70	74	74	287
T26	Diego Prone	Argentina	-1	72	74	71	70	287
T29	Juan Martín Loureiro	Argentina	E	72	70	74	72	288
T29	Manuel Merizalde	Colombia	E	71	73	72	72	288
T29	Alejandro Fierro	Mexico	E	72	70	72	74	288
T29	Ben Cohn	Ecuador	E	73	71	69	75	288
T29	Juan Camilo Vesga	Colombia	E	72	71	70	75	288
T34	Raúl Carbonell	Panama	1	75	71	70	73	289
T34	Diego Neira	Venezuela	1	70	73	74	72	289
T34	Diego Álvarez	Panama	1	72	74	72	71	289
T37	Max Alverio	Puerto Rico	2	70	72	73	75	290
T37	Erick Morales	Puerto Rico	2	71	73	73	73	290
T37	Clemente Silva	Chile	2	71	69	77	73	290
T37	Jean Paul Ducruet	Panama	2	70	74	75	71	290
T41	Marcos Negrini	Brazil	3	72	74	70	75	291
T41	Kelvin Hernández	Puerto Rico	3	71	68	79	73	291
T41	Flavio Sameja	Bolivia	3	74	73	72	72	291
T41	Lukas Roessler	Chile	3	76	69	79	67	291
45	Carlos Rodriguez	Colombia	4	73	72	73	74	292
46	Chris Richards Jr.	Trinidad and Tobago	5	72	70	74	77	293
47	Guilherme Grinberg	Brazil	6	69	77	74	74	294
T48	Mateo Fuenmayor	Colombia	7	66	77	74	78	295
T48	Juan Ignacio Basagoitía	Chile	7	68	76	73	78	295
50	Andrew Jarvis	Cayman Islands	9	70	77	77	73	297
51	Jean-Philippe Mehu	Haiti	12	74	72	79	75	300
52	William Knibbs	Jamaica	13	73	74	74	80	301
53	Simon Proverbs	Barbados	14	74	73	79	76	302
CUT	Martín León	Chile	4	74	74			148
CUT	Eduardo Galdos	Peru	4	72	76			148
CUT	Thomas Choi	Brazil	4	76	72			148
CUT	Martin de Leon	Uruguay	4	75	73			148
CUT	Andrey Xavier	Brazil	4	74	74			148
CUT	Matheus Balestrin	Brazil	4	71	77			148
CUT	Franco Fernández	Paraguay	5	73	76			149
CUT	Juan Angel	Colombia	5	74	75			149
CUT	José Ignacio Arzú García	Guatemala	5	77	72			149
CUT	Alvaro Ortiz	Costa Rica	6	77	73			150
CUT	Gabriel Palacios	Guatemala	6	75	75			150
CUT	Johann Voss	Bolivia	6	73	77			150
CUT	Rhadamés Peña	Dominican Republic	6	75	75			150
CUT	Virgilio Paz	Venezuela	6	71	79			150
CUT	Michael Mikus	Costa Rica	6	76	74			150
CUT	Hector Ortega	Paraguay	7	72	79			151
CUT	Gustavo Rangel	Puerto Rico	7	72	79			151
CUT	Mateo Quiroga	Uruguay	7	77	74			151
CUT	Miguel Ordoñez	Panama	8	71	81			152
CUT	PJ Carrere	Uruguay	8	73	79			152
CUT	Jarryd Dillas	Bermuda	8	74	78			152
CUT	José M. Carletta	Venezuela	8	75	77			152
CUT	Payten Wight	Cayman Islands	9	78	75			153
CUT	Zico Correia	Trinidad and Tobago	9	79	74			153
CUT	Félix Domínguez	Venezuela	9	76	77			153
CUT	Rodrigo Sol	El Salvador	9	76	77			153
CUT	Homero de Toledo	Brazil	9	76	77			153
CUT	Camilo Avila	Bolivia	9	76	77			153
CUT	Pablo Lacayo	Nicaragua	10	78	76			154
CUT	Daniel Cano	Paraguay	10	76	78			154
CUT	Robi Calvesbert	Puerto Rico	10	79	75			154
CUT	Arnaldo Acosta Vallet	Paraguay	10	76	78			154
CUT	Renato Naula	Ecuador	10	80	74			154
CUT	Justin Burrowes	Jamaica	10	77	77			154
CUT	Juan Camilo Malagon	Colombia	11	76	79			155
CUT	Alejandro Ramos	Peru	11	81	74			155
CUT	Jaime Yzaga	Peru	11	78	77			155
CUT	Juan Cayro Delgado	Dominican Republic	11	77	78			155
CUT	Ricardo Méndez	Venezuela	11	76	79			155
CUT	Heathcliﬀe Kane	Bahamas	11	77	78			155
CUT	Ezequiel Cabrera	Paraguay	12	77	79			156
CUT	Elías Mardeni	Costa Rica	12	79	77			156
CUT	Santiago Quintero	Venezuela	12	77	79			156
CUT	Miguel Reyes Viacava	Uruguay	12	78	78			156
CUT	Jose Luis Vargas	Bolivia	13	78	79			157
CUT	Kurt Rivers	Turks and Caicos Islands	15	77	82			159
CUT	Diego Olano	El Salvador	15	76	83			159
CUT	Lucas Park	Brazil	16	86	74			160
CUT	Sebastián Salazar	Venezuela	18	79	83			162
CUT	Rod Olivero	Guatemala	18	79	83			162
CUT	Xzavier Wiggins	Barbados	20	82	82			164
CUT	Jose Ignacio Cordero	Costa Rica	20	80	84			164
CUT	Joseph Sibilly Jr.	Virgin Islands, U.S.	32	94	82			176
WD	Philippe Thorin	Ecuador	-	75	72	73	WD	WD
WD	Daniel Faccini	Colombia	-	73	WD			WD