Camilo Villegas is a Colombian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
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33 Facts About Camilo Villegas
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Camilo Villegas accepted 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 competition from 2001 to 2004.
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Camilo Villegas graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 2004.
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Camilo Villegas is known for his commitment to physical fitness, and says his mentor and inspiration is golf icon Gary Player.
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Camilo Villegas had a blistering start to his 2006 rookie year on tour, with two second-place finishes and a third place in his first nine events.
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Camilo Villegas barely missed qualifing into the 2006 Masters Tournament in his rookie year, being just a single position on the PGA Tour money list under the requirement.
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Camilo Villegas made his first Masters appearance in 2007 by finishing in the top 40 of the PGA Tour money list for 2006.
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Camilo Villegas entered the FedEx Cup playoffs in 52nd place and improved to 28th place through his play in the first three events, thus qualifying for the 30-man field at The Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, where he finished in the top 10 for the third straight week and finished 24th on the FedEx Cup points list.
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Camilo Villegas shot a score of 282 and defeated Toyokazu Fujishima in a playoff by draining a 20-foot putt on the winning hole.
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Camilo Villegas won his third professional event at the TELUS Skins Game in June 2008 where he defeated a field that included Greg Norman, Colin Montgomerie, Mike Weir and "Mr Skins", Fred Couples.
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Camilo Villegas took six skins for $130,000 with a short birdie putt on the 14th hole, and then won an additional four skins for $100,000 in a playoff, which was decided with a closest-to-the-pin shootout from 130 yards out on the 18th hole.
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Camilo Villegas recorded a record-breaking second round in the 2008 Open Championship.
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Camilo Villegas shot 65, which was the lowest score for any Open Championship second round at Royal Birkdale.
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Camilo Villegas started off with two bogeys but ended with five consecutive birdies which put him at 5 under for his round.
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Camilo Villegas won his first PGA Tour title in September 2008, winning the BMW Championship by two shots over Dudley Hart.
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Camilo Villegas followed his BMW Championship win with a victory in The Tour Championship.
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Camilo Villegas defeated Sergio Garcia in a playoff, having trailed by five shots going into the final round.
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In late 2008, Camilo Villegas joined the European Tour, making his first European Tour appearance at the 2008 HSBC Champions, the first tournament of the 2009 season.
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Camilo Villegas has spent over 30 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings since 2008, with a career high rank of seventh.
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At the 2009 Chevron World Challenge, Camilo Villegas made a very rare albatross on a 568-yard par 5, firing a 262-yard second shot into the hole.
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In March 2010, Camilo Villegas earned his third victory on the PGA Tour, winning The Honda Classic by five strokes over Anthony Kim.
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Camilo Villegas chose not to maintain his status on the European Tour, and a slump in form in 2012 meant he had to enter the PGA Tour's Qualifying School at the end of the season; he finished 144th on the money list.
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Camilo Villegas's status gave him entry based on sponsor exemptions, past championships, and priority ranking.
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Camilo Villegas regained full privileges for 2014 with a 110th-place finish in the FedEx Cup.
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In 2014, Camilo Villegas won the Wyndham Championship, his first win on Tour in more than four years.
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Camilo Villegas mentioned concerns over the Zika virus as another reason to pull out from the Olympics.
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Camilo Villegas is often compared with Spider-Man for his unique style of reading greens before he putts.
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Camilo Villegas leans himself all the way to the putting surface, stretching out his left leg while balancing himself on his right leg, getting his chest and head almost to the ground, from which he reads his putts.
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Many players continued wearing the pins in their caps for the rest of the season, and Camilo Villegas received tremendous support within the PGA community, the sporting world, and his fans in Colombia.
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