The country woke up with another golfer on the privileged list of the PGA Tour, who joins Camilo Villegas, Juan Sebastian Munoz, Rogelio Gonzalez y Edward Herrera, only nationals in the history of this select group.
The new member of the PGA is Nicholas Echavarria Boterowho after a great season in the Korn Ferry He got his card and will be next season with Muñoz and Villegas on the PGA Tour.
Nicolás spectacularly closed his presentation at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in Indiana and was left with one of the 25 quotas to access the PGA.
“I still can’t believe it, it’s been a great year, I’m very happy with how I’ve played, I’ve been more consistent than in the previous two, I’m excited now that the round is over and I can celebrate it,” said the Antioquian, while in his house, his parents and his brother Andrés, also a golfer, wept with emotion.
The Colombian Golf Federation confirmed that Echavarría tied for fifth place at the end of the last of the Korn Ferry Tour ‘playoffs’ tournaments, the alternate category in the United States, ranking 20th in points in said Finals, which that gave entrance to the great world golf tent.
The man from Antioquia will thus accompany Juan Sebastián Muñoz from Bogotá as the two national golf representatives in the next season of the PGA Tour and after a great season in the Korn Ferry Tour, in which he participated in 24 competitions, reaching six Top-5, including this Sunday’s.
Nicolás started as a professional golfer in 2017 after passing through the Arkansas University, in which he completed his professional career, in 2018 he won a couple of wins in Colombia and stood out on the PGA Tour Latin America, in which he was very close to being the best in that same season in which he achieved, among other achievements, two wins on the tour.
The American PGA Tour will begin its 2022-23 season on September 16, at the Fortinet Championship in California.
Camilo Villegas, with 275 shots (-13), tied for 22nd place in the competition, remaining in 36th place in the general order of the Finals, without being able to improve his ‘full exemption’ status for the following season.
Marcelo Rozo, from Bogotá, also had no chance of reaching the PGA Tour by finishing in 64th place in points, after ranking 39th in this Korn Ferry Tour Championship with 279 (-9).
Nicolás, who has always expressed his admiration for Camilo Villegas, celebrated on the course with his close friends, including Manuel Villegas and other golfers who bathed him in beer, on the green of the 18th hole of the Victoria National Golf Course in Newburgh (Indiana). , USA).
Together with Nicolás, the Americans also qualified Nicholas Lindheim y Sam Stevenslike the Argentine Stanislaus Goya that were consolidated in the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and successfully passed the Finals of the Korn Ferry Tour.
