Sports Beauty: Camilo Villegas Colombian Professional Golfer

Camilo Villegas was born in 7 January 1982. He is a Colombian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up golf as a child. After several different National Junior Championships in Colombia in the ages between 8 and 15, at 16 he became the first player in Colombian golf history to win the Amateur's Grand Slam in the same year: The National Junior Championship (stroke play), the National Junior Championship (match play), the National Amateur Championship, and the Colombian Open in the amateur category. Then, in 2001, he became only the second player to win the Colombian Open as an amateur.

His success in Colombian golf throughout the 1990s earned him the distinction of "Player of the Decade" issued by the Colombian Golf Federation. Villegas received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Buddy Alexander's Florida Gators men's golf team in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) competition from 2001 to 2004. As a freshman in 2001, Villegas was a member of the Gators' 2001 NCAA championship team. During his college golf career, he was a four-time All-American, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year in 2001, and SEC Player of the Year in 2002 and 2004. Villegas graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 2004.

Full name: Camilo Villegas Restrepo

Nationality: Colombia

Residence: Gainesville, Florida Jupiter, Florida

Born: 7 January 1982 Medellín, Colombia

Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Weight: 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)

College: University of Florida

Turned professional: 2004

Professional wins: 9

Current tour(s): PGA Tour (joined 2006) European Tour (joined 2009)

Camilo Villegas

Camilo Villegas Colombian Professional Golfer

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