Mendoza Open

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The Mendoza Open, or the Western Open, was a golf tournament on the TPG Tour, the official professional golf tour in Argentina. Founded in 1939, the first two events were held at the Andino Golf Club in Mendoza, Mendoza Province. The tournament was not played again until 1956, when it was held at the Club de Campo Golf Club in Mendoza, where it has remained except for 1993 and 2009, when the tournament was again played at Andino. In 2010 was played The YPF Classic in Golf Club Andino.

Golf sport in which players attempt to hit a ball with a club into a goal using a minimum number of shots

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

The TPG Tour is the principal professional golf tour in Argentina. The tour was formed in 2007, following disputes within the PGA of Argentina, who had operated the main professional tour in the country in previous years.

Professional golf tours are the means by which otherwise unconnected professional golf tournaments are organised into a regular schedule. There are separate tours for men and women with each tour being based in a specific geographical region, although some tours may hold tournaments in other parts of the world.

Winners

YearWinnerRunner-up
2010 Mauricio Molina Rodolfo Gonzalez, Felix Cordoba
2009 Sebastián Fernández Martin Monguzzi, Gustavo Acosta
2008No tournament
2007 Rafael Echenique Rubén Alvarez
2000–06No tournament
1999 Mauricio Molina
1995–98No tournament
1994 José Cóceres
1993 Armando Saavedra
1992Antonio Ortiz
1991 Raúl Fretes
1980–90No tournament
1979Raul Travieso
1978
1977
1976 Fidel de Luca
1958–75No tournament
1957 Antonio Cerdá
1956 Antonio Cerdá
Fidel de Luca
Romulado Barbieri
(tie)
1942–55No tournament
1941 Marcos Churio
1940Carlos Blasi
1939Carlos Blasi


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