Fabrizio Zanotti

Fabrizio Zanotti
Personal information
Full name	Arnaldo Fabrizio Zanotti
Born	(1983-05-21) 21 May 1983 (age 42) Asunción, Paraguay
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Sporting nationality	Paraguay
Residence	Asunción, Paraguay
Career
Turned professional	2003
Current tour(s)	European Tour
Former tour(s)	Challenge Tour Tour de las Américas
Professional wins	7
Highest ranking	76 (5 March 2017) [1]
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	2
Asian Tour	1
Challenge Tour	1
Other	3
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	T46: 2014
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT: 2017, 2018, 2022
Achievements and awards
Tour de las Américas Order of Merit winner 2006
Medal record Pan American Games 2019 Lima Individual 2019 Lima Mixed team South American Games 2022 Asunción Individual 2022 Asunción Mixed team

Arnaldo Fabrizio Zanotti (born 21 May 1983) is a Paraguayan professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.

Early life and amateur career

Zanotti was born in Asunción, the national capital. He was Paraguay's top ranked amateur golfer for six straight years.

Professional career

In 2003, Zanotti turned professional. In 2006, Zanotti won the Tour de las Americas Order of Merit with victory at the final event of the season, the Abierto Mexicano Corona. The tournament was also the second event on the 2007 Challenge Tour schedule, and the win enabled him to join the tour for the remainder of the season. He ended the season in 11th place on the Challenge Tour Rankings to graduate to the top level European Tour for 2008.

In his rookie season on the European Tour, Zanotti finished 153rd on the Order of Merit to lose his place on the tour. However he regained his card for 2009 by finishing 16th at the end of season qualifying school. He has kept his card since, with a best finish of 25th on the Race to Dubai in 2017.

Zanotti won his first European Tour event at the 2014 BMW International Open. The win made Zanotti the first Paraguayan to win on the European Tour. Also, he finished third at the Madeira Islands Open - Portugal - BPI, fifth at the Lyoness Open, ninth at the Alstom Open de France and tenth at the BMW Masters. In 2015, he finished second at the British Masters, third at the Open d'Italia, fourth at the KLM Open and seventh at the Nordea Masters.

His second European Tour win came at the Maybank Championship in February 2017. He scored a final round 63, including a birdie-eagle finish, to beat David Lipsky by a stroke. ^[2] Zanotti had begun the final round six shots off the lead, but a birdie on the 71st hole sent him to the top of the leaderboard for the first time all week. The win moved Zanotti back inside the top 100 in the world rankings.

At the 2019 Pan American Games, Zanotti won the gold medal in the men's individual competition and the silver medal in the mixed team competition. ^{[3] [4]}

Professional wins (7)

European Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	29 Jun 2014	BMW International Open	−19 (72-67-65-65=269)	Playoff	Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Grégory Havret, Henrik Stenson
2	12 Feb 2017	Maybank Championship 1	−19 (70-69-67-63=269)	1 stroke	David Lipsky

¹Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2014	BMW International Open	Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Grégory Havret, Henrik Stenson	Won with par on fifth extra hole Cabrera-Bello eliminated by par on fourth hole Havret eliminated by birdie on second hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	10 Dec 2006 (2007 season)	Abierto Mexicano Corona 1	−9 (74-67-69-65=275)	1 stroke	Daniel de León

¹Co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Américas

Tour de las Américas wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	10 Dec 2006	Abierto Mexicano Corona 1	−9 (74-67-69-65=275)	1 stroke	Daniel de León
2	6 Nov 2011	Carlos Franco Invitational 2	−14 (67-67-65-71=270)	6 strokes	Leandro Marelli

¹Co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour
²Co-sanctioned by the TPG Tour

PGA Tour Latinoamérica Developmental Series wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	16 Aug 2015	Abierto de Paraguay Copa NEC	−26 (64-66-68-64=262)	12 strokes	Julio Zapata

Other wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	11 Aug 2019	Pan American Games	−15 (64-67-68-70=269)	Playoff	Mito Pereira, José Toledo

Other playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2019	Pan American Games	Mito Pereira, José Toledo	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships

Fabrizio Zanotti

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship				CUT	CUT
PGA Championship	T46			CUT

Tournament	2019	2020	2021	2022
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
PGA Championship
The Open Championship		NT		CUT

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017
Championship				T12
Match Play
Invitational	T26			T50
Champions				T50

  Did not play

"T" = Tied

Team appearances

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing Paraguay): 2000, 2002

Professional

• World Cup (representing Paraguay): 2007

See also

• 2007 Challenge Tour graduates
• 2008 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
• 2013 European Tour Qualifying School graduates

References

1. "Week 9 2017 Ending 5 Mar 2017" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved 29 October 2019.
2. "Big finish hands Zanotti victory in Malaysia". PGA European Tour. 12 February 2017.
3. "Zanotti makes history with Pan American Games gold". European Tour. 12 August 2019.
4. "Playoffs Determine Lima Golf Medalists". AroundTheRings.com. 11 August 2019. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

External links

• Fabrizio Zanotti at the European Tour official site
• Fabrizio Zanotti at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

Olympic Games
Preceded by Julieta Granada	Flagbearer for   Paraguay (with Verónica Cepede) Tokyo 2020	Succeeded by Fabrizio Zanotti & Alejandra Alonso
Preceded by Fabrizio Zanotti & Verónica Cepede	Flagbearer for   Paraguay (with Alejandra Alonso) Paris 2024	Succeeded by Incumbent