Vicente Fernandez (golfer)
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Vicente Fernández (born 5 April 1946) is an Argentine golfer who has won more than twenty professional tournaments around the world.
Fernández was born in Corrientes, Argentina. He turned professional in 1964 and was a regular competitor on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s. He won four titles on the tour and had two top ten Order of Merit finishes, placing 6th in 1974 and 9th in 1975. He was sixteenth on the Order of Merit in 1992 at the age of 46.
As a senior Fernández moved to the United States to play on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour), where he won four tournaments. His other wins include nine victories in his national open championship, the Argentine Open.
[edit] Professional wins
- 1968 Argentine Open
- 1969 Argentine Open
- 1970 Dutch Open (pre establishment of the European Tour)
- 1972 Ford Maracaibo Open
- 1975 Benson & Hedges Festival (European Tour)
- 1977 Brazil Open
- 1979 Colgate PGA Championship (European Tour)
- 1981 Argentine Open
- 1983 Brazil Open
- 1984 Argentine Open, Brazil Open
- 1985 Argentine Open
- 1986 Argentine Open
- 1987 Argentine Open
- 1990 Argentine Open, Tenerife Open (European Tour)
- 1992 Murphy's English Open (European Tour)
- 1996 Burnet Senior Classic (Champions Tour)
- 1997 Bank One Classic (Champions Tour)
- 1999 Las Vegas Senior Classic (Champions Tour)
- 2000 Chrysler Senior Match Play Challenge
- 2001 Argentine Open
- 2003 ACE Group Classic (Champions Tour)
