Brazil Open (golf)

Brazil Open

Tournament information
Location	Brazil
Established	1945
Course(s)	Itanhangá Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour Latinoamérica
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$175,000
Month played	September
Current champion
Alexandre Rocha

The Brazil Open or Aberto do Brasil is an annual golf tournament held in Brazil. It was founded in 1945, and was an event on the Tour de las Américas on several occasions, most recently in 2005. It is now an event on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica.

Until the early 1980s, the tournament was a popular stop for many of the worlds top professionals, and can boast major winners Sam Snead, Billy Casper, Gary Player, Raymond Floyd, Jerry Pate and Hale Irwin in addition to superstars of South American golf, Roberto de Vicenzo and Ángel Cabrera, amongst its list of champions.

The most successful player remains Mário Gonzalez, who won a total of eight titles, including seven out of nine between 1946 and 1955 (no tournament was held in 1947).

As part of the celebrations of the 500 year anniversary of the discovery of Brazil by Pedro Álvares Cabral, in 2000 the European Tour included the São Paulo and the Rio de Janeiro 500 Year Opens on their schedule. The following year the São Paulo event was again included on the European calendar, and somewhat confusingly titled the São Paulo Brazil Open.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	Runner(s)-up	Amateur winner
2015	Alexandre Rocha	267 (−17)	Kent Bulle, Keith Mitchell
2014	Rafael Becker	262 (−14)	Ariel Cañete, Joel Dahmen
2013	Ryan Blaum	265 (−11)	Alan Wagner	Luis Thiele
2012	Clodomiro Carranza	269	José de Jesús Rodríguez	Leonardo Conrado
2011	Óscar Álvarez	275	César Costilla, Sebastián Fernández	Pepe Costa Lima
2010	Marco Ruiz	269	Felipe Navarro	Felipe Navarro
2009	No tournament
2008	Rafael Barcellos	280	Alessandro Fabietti	Guilherme Oda
2006–07	No tournament
2005	Miguel Guzmán	275 (−13)	Mauricio Molina, Eduardo Argiro	Joakim Thrane
2004	Philippe Gasnier	278
2003	Carlos Franco*	281 (−3)	Eduardo Argiro	Ivo Leao
2002	No tournament
2001	Carlos Franco	273 (−11)	Miguel Guzmán	Rodrigo Lacerda
2000	Jesús Amaya	274 (−6)	Shannon Sykora	Philippe Gasnier
1999	Ángel Cabrera
1998	Ángel Cabrera	(−19)	Eduardo Romero
1997	No tournament
1996	Ruberlei Felizardo
1995	Eduardo Pesenti (Am)			Eduardo Pesenti
1994	No tournament
1993	Eduardo Caballero
1992	Ricardo Mechereffe
1991	Ángel Franco
1990	Bruce Fleisher	tied	Pedro Martínez
1989	No tournament
1988	Carlos Larrain (Am)		Vicente Fernández, Pedro Martínez	Carlos Larrain
1987	No tournament
1986	Eduardo Caballero	277	Phil Harrison
1985	Robert Lee	272	Eduardo Romero, Ronan Rafferty, Miguel Ángel Martín, Adan Sowa, Horacio Carbonetti
1984	Vicente Fernández	277	Jeff Hart
1983	Vicente Fernández	275	Mark James
1982	Hale Irwin	265	Curtis Strange, Manuel Calero
1981	Tom Sieckmann	284	Jaime Gonzalez
1980	Jerry Pate	274	Manuel Piñero
1979	Fidel de Luca*	270	Roberto de Vicenzo
1978	Raymond Floyd	277	Vicente Fernández, Steve Martin
1977	Vicente Fernández	274	Lou Graham, Manuel Piñero
1976	Juan Quinteros*	279	Roberto de Vicenzo
1975	Priscillo Diniz* (Am)	274	Lanny Wadkins	Priscillo Diniz
1974	Gary Player	267	Mark Hayes
1973	Roberto de Vicenzo	279	Dale Hayes
1972	Gary Player	270	Steve Melnyk
1971	Bruce Fleisher*	280	Jaime Gonzalez Jr (Am)	Jaime Gonzalez Jr
1970	Bert Greene	276	Florentino Molina, Roberto de Vicenzo, Bruce Stanton
1969	Mário Gonzalez	280	Roberto de Vicenzo	Roberto Monguzzi
1968	Takashi Kono	282	K. Hoseichi, Hugh Baiocchi (Am)	Hugh Baiocchi
1967	Raul Travieso	281	Jorge Ledesma (Am)	Jorge Ledesma
1966	Rex Baxter	277	Ramón Sota	Bobby Cole
1965	Ramón Sota	tied	Gene Littler	R. Falkenburg
1964	Roberto de Vicenzo*	285	Elcido Nari	N. Sozio
1963	Roberto de Vicenzo	279	Dave Thomas	R. Falkenburg
1962	Bernard Hunt	273	Dave Thomas	M. Stanovich
1961	Peter Alliss	272	Mário Gonzalez	C. Sozio
1960	Roberto de Vicenzo	271	Mike Souchak	Roberto Benito
1959	Billy Casper	268	Mário Gonzalez	Humberto Almeida
1958	Billy Casper	270	Leopoldo Ruiz	Roberto Benito
1957	Roberto de Vicenzo	281	Leopoldo Ruiz	Roberto Benito
1956	Fidel de Luca	278	Antonio Cerdá	Jaime Gonzalez
1955	Mário Gonzalez	275	Arturo Soto	Jaime Gonzalez
1954	Roberto de Vicenzo	277	Mário Gonzalez	Jaime Gonzalez
1953	Mário Gonzalez	270	Martin Pose	Jaime Gonzalez
1952	Sam Snead	267	Ricardo Rossi	Juan Segura*
1951	Mário Gonzalez	272	Roberto de Vicenzo	Julian Foster
1950	Mário Gonzalez	270	Roberto de Vicenzo	Jorge Simonsen
1949	Mário Gonzalez	269	Roberto de Vicenzo	S. Marvin
1948	Mário Gonzalez (Am)	270	Frank Stranahan (Am)	Mário Gonzalez
1947	No tournament
1946	Mário Gonzalez (Am)	274	Roberto de Vicenzo	Mário Gonzalez
1945	Martin Pose	275	Roberto de Vicenzo	Mário Gonzalez

(Am) – Amateur

External links

• Coverage on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica's official site