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Leaders
Round 1 — Argentina, at 3-over-par 291, by seven strokes
over Canada and Paraguay. Round 2 — USA, at 15-overpar
589, by three strokes over Canada. Round 3 — USA, at
5-over-par 867, by 14 strokes over Argentina.
Weather
Cool start on Wednesday but sunny and breezy with highs in
the high 70s. Sunny on Thursday with highs in the high 70s.
Same weather but warmer in the 80s on Friday and in the low
90s on Saturday.
Notes
In the first round: Argentina’s Victoria Tanco had the best day
for the women, shooting a 1-under-par 71, which is the lowest
first-round individual score in the history of the Copa de las
Americas.
In the second round: For the USA, Peter Uihlein’s 69 tied for
the lowest second-round individual score in Copa history
while Jessica Korda (69) and Jennifer Song (75) combined
for a 144, the lowest second-round team score in Copa history
… Korda’s score was the lowest second-round individual
women’s score in Copa history.
In the third round: The two lowest scores in the history of
the championship were fired by Argentine players, a 64 by
Emiliano Grillo and a 65 by Tanco … In addition to the individual
records of Grillo and Tanco, the USA women, at 141,
totaled the lowest team score … The USA and Argentina men,
at 137, shot the second-lowest team total.
In the final round: The USA’s winning total of 1158 was the
second-best overall total in the history of the competition,
two strokes behind Canada’s 1156 winning score in 2005 … Its
12-stroke win tied Canada in 2003 for second-largest margin
of victory … The USA women’s total of 583 broke the record
for the lowest score … The previous low was 592 by Canada in
2003 … Argentina’s men’s total of 139 in the fourth round tied
a Copa record.
General: Roberto De Vicenzo, 86, Argentina’s first great
international star, attended the final round of the Copa de las
Americas … The 1989 inductee into the World Golf Hall of
Fame lives in the southern part of Buenos Aires … De Vicenzo
won the 1967 British Open and the inaugural U.S. Senior
Open Championship in 1980 … In 1970, he was presented the
USGA’s highest prize, the Bob Jones Award … Olivos Golf
Club has been the site of the Argentine Masters since 1961
… The event has not been played every year since then but
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it is now co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Americas and the
Canadian Tour … Buenos Aires Golf Club hosted the 2000
World Cup, the two-player professional event held every two
years … Each club has hosted the most important Argentine
events of recent years, including the Argentine Open (Olivos
G.C. nine times and Buenos Aires G.C. six times) and the
Argentine Amateur and Women’s Amateur Championships
… At Buenos Aires Golf Club (which has 27 holes), which was
used for the first and third rounds, the championship golf
course was made up of the Green Course (outward nine)
and the Yellow Course (inward nine) … At Olivos Golf Club
(which has three nines), the White Course was the outward
nine and the Red Course was the inward nine … Eighteen of
the 54 competitors (nine men and nine women) had played in
past World Amateur Team Championships, which was played
on these same two courses in October 2010 … In addition,
11 of those with WATC experience played in 2008 … Beatriz
de Arenas, of Guatemala, led all of the competitors with six
appearances at World Amateur competitions … 22 of the
competitors were former, current or future players at American
colleges or universities … Juliana Murcia, of Colombia, was a
member of Arizona State’s NCAA Division I Championship
team in 2009 and Canada’s Matt Hill, playing for North
Carolina State, won the NCAA Division I men’s individual
title … Canada’s Nick Taylor was the low amateur at the 2009
U.S. Open and shot 65 in the second round … Taylor was an
Olympic torch bearer prior to the Winter Games in Vancouver
in February … The USA’s Jennifer Song was the low amateur
at the 2009 U.S. Women’s Open, where she tied for 13th …
Her teammate Jessica Korda also made the cut at the 2009
Women’s Open, shooting 69 in the final round … Three of the
team captains were past participants in the World Amateur …
Doug Roxburgh, of Canada, played in six Eisenhower Trophy
competitions including the 1972 championship at Olivos Golf
Club … Cristian Vargas, of Chile, and Arturo Tapia, of Panama,
also played in past Eisenhower Trophy competitions … Copa
de las Americas participants, delegates and families, on the
buses provided by the Argentine Golf Association, traveled on
the widest street in the world — Avenida 9 de Julio, in downtown
Buenos Aires, which features nine lanes and measures
460 feet wide.
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