Roberto De Vicenzo
Professional player from Argentina. World Golf Legend.
Roberto De Vicenzo was born on April 14, 1923 at Chilavert General San Martín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Until the end of his youth lived in Villa Pueyrredon, City of Buenos Aires, and later lived in Ranelagh today, Province of Buenos Aires.
At age 8 he began to caddy at a club in the area since the age of 15 became the Golf Professional. Robert was a very complete player, but it was always recognized as a very good player on the green.
The year was 1938 and Roberto made his professional debut at the Open of Argentina carried out in the field of Ituzaingo, but De Vicenzo did not overcome the qualifying cut.
In September 1942, won his first professional tournament, the "Open Coastal" (Argentina), with 277 hits a record that took 49 years of operation. As an anecdote of this tournament, Roberto had many strokes ahead, and on the final hole threw it into the reeds across the green opposite the hole 18. He does not want to play there but at the insistence of the public decided not to disappoint and played the ball from the stream. Robert then received his first trophy with a lot of dirt on his clothes.
In 1944 he won the Open Ituzaingó Argentina in golf and the Professional Championship defeating Argentine Eduardo Blassi. This time the journalist of the newspaper "El Mundo" Milderman Gregory put his first nickname "Spaghetti". After the English would be called "Old Robert" and the Latin world "The Eternal" or "Master" though he prefers simply defined as a course worker. His first win was outside Chile Open in 1947. In 1949, Uruguay won the Open with 268 strokes, until the time was the lowest score recorded in Latin America.
In 1953 he won his first tournament in New York, United States later this year with Antonio Cerda won for Argentina's first World Cup in Canada.
In 1963 he again represented Argentina in a World Cup. Along with Fidel de Luca won the second place and Robert get in the individual, his first World Championship title that would get in 1970, both played in the red of the Jockey Club (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
He won tournaments around the world, including 4 PGA Tour tournaments and the prestigious British Open at that time considered the best golf tournament in the world, so it was that in 1967, returned to the international golfing headlines when, after twenty years of struggle won the British Open with 278 strokes in the field at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake. As a veteran juice successfully in the Senior PGA Tour, winning the first U.S. Senior Open in 1980. Also won the Senior PGA Championship in 1974. I represent the Republic of Argentina on 17 occasions.
Remembered and known for what happened in the Masters at Augusta in 1968. De Vicenzo juice that day one of the best final rounds of Golf in a Major, hit for 31 in the first nine, and finished with 65. After the tournament, Roberto signed the score card with a higher score than it actually was played. The error was by the score of the hole 17, he scored a pair marker (4) instead of a birdie (3), and then Roberto signed, once you sign the card, no matter what it was, but he signed. When De Vicenzo did you hear about what happened, just said, "How stupid I am," a phrase that went down in history. Roberto De Vicenzo thus lost the opportunity to play a play-off next day to decide who would stay with the green jacket.
Roberto explained that curved in a report by the result obtained, but enclosed by the people who came to congratulate him, did not think seriously about the score card and merely signed. The acceptance of failure and humility displayed that day was appreciated by the audience of Golf as a sign of honesty, sincerity and honor.
For 35 years he was among the ten best in the world, their achievements in regional and national championships added 47 (16 Professional Championships and 9 Open the Republic) won the Open in 17 countries, 231 golf tournaments. His whole career was a player who practice a lot, pulled a lot of balls. In 2006, it opened in Berazategui Golf Museum. Berazategui is a municipality in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The museum displays trophies and souvenirs of the golfing career of Roberto De Vicenzo.
Beyond that Roberto De Vicenzo during his career traveled the world playing golf with top players, as well playing with the nobility, presidents, and many leading figures, always returned to his local club, the golf course of Ranelagh. That's where Robert plays golf, and where its place in the world.
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INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Majors
- 1967 British Open.
- 1974 Senior PGA Championship *
- 1980 U.S. Senior Open *
PGA TOUR
- 1957 Colonial National Invitational
- 1966 Dallas Open Invitational
- 1968 Houston Champions Invitational
CHAMPIONS TOUR
- 1984 Merrill Lynch / Golf Digest Pro-Am
VIDEOS - Roberto De Vicenzo SWING
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