César Omar Monasterio (born 28 November 1963) is an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish ( masculine) or ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines ...

professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

er. Monasterio was born in Tucumán. He turned

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in 1990. Since 2003 Monasterio has played extensively in Europe on the

European Tour The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fif ...

and its development tour, the

Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and, as with on the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe. History ...

. He won the 2005 Abierto Telefonica Moviles de Guatemala on the Challenge Tour, and in 2006 captured his first European Tour title at the

Aa St Omer Open The Saint-Omer Open is an annual men's professional golf tournament played at Saint-Omer Golf Club in Saint-Omer, France. The tournament was founded in 1997 and was part of the MasterCard Tour a year later, before taking its place on the Challenge ...

, which was an official money event on both tours.

Professional wins (12)

European Tour wins (1)

¹Dual-ranking event with the

Challenge Tour wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

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²Dual-ranking event with the

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–1)

TPG Tour wins (2)

Other wins (8)

*1994

Abierto del Litoral The Coast Open, or Abierto del Litoral, is a golf tournament played in Argentina. Founded in 1932 as the Torneo de Profesionales (Professional Tournament), a name only used for the first two editions, it has always been played at the Rosario Gol ...

(Arg) *1996 Palermo Grand Prix (Arg) *1997

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(Arg) *1999

(Arg) *2002 Acantilados Grand Prix (Arg), Santiago Open (Chile), Santiago del Estero Open (Arg) *2010 Viña del Mar Open (Chi)

European Senior Tour wins (1)

Team appearances

Professional *

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(representing Argentina):

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

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* Argentine male golfers European Tour golfers European Senior Tour golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers Sportspeople from San Miguel de Tucumán 1963 births Living people {{Argentina-golf-bio-stub