Ángel Franco (born 31 May 1958) is a

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

an professional

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er. His brother is golfer Carlos Franco. Franco was born in

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and turned pro in 1974. He won the South American Tour Order of Merit in 1991. In 2007, he was second at the

Carlos Franco Invitational The Carlos Franco Invitational is a professional golf tournament held at the Carlos Franco Country & Golf Club, in Arroyos y Esteros, Paraguay. First held in 2004, the tournament was included in the TPG Tour schedule in 2007, which is the official p ...

, and won the same tournament in 2012 in a playoff against younger brother Ramon. Currently, Franco is a member of European Seniors Tour, and the best finish on this tour was second place at the 2008 Jersey Seniors Classic, 2008 Russian Seniors Open and 2009

The De Vere Collection PGA Seniors Championship The PGA Seniors Championship is a European Senior Tour golf tournament for men aged fifty and above. It was founded in 1957 and became part of the European Senior Tour on its founding in 1992. It was not held in 2016 or 2017 but returned in 201 ...

Professional wins (16)

Nike Tour wins (1)

Canadian Tour wins (1)

Tour de las Américas wins (1)

*2000 TPG Movilnet Classic

TPG Tour wins (1)

Argentine wins (6)

*1989 Jockey Club Rosario Open *1990 Los Lagartos Grand Prix,

Praderas Grand Prix The Praderas Grand Prix or Gran Premio Las Praderas is a golf tournament on the TPG Argentina Tour, formerly the principal professional golf tour in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argen ...

*1991

Rio Cuarto Open The Rio Cuarto Open or Abierto de Rio Cuarto was a golf tournament on the PGA of Argentina Tour, formerly the principal professional golf tour in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentin ...

*1992

Center Open The Center Open, or Abierto del Centro, is one of the major regional open golf tournaments in Argentina. Founded in 1927, it has always been held at the Córdoba Golf Club in Córdoba. In 2001, Ángel Cabrera set the course record of 60 in the ...

*1996 Norpatagonico Open

Other wins (6)

*1990 Los Leones Open (Chile) *1991

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, Prince of Wales Open (Chile) *1992 Quito Open (Ecuador) *1995 Marbella Open (Chile), Callaway Cup (Paraguay)

Team appearances

* World Cup (representing Paraguay): 1985, 1991, 1993,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

* Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Paraguay):

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

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