10th Anniversary of Latin America Amateur Championship to Feature Extensive International Coverage
Pilar Golf Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina
BUENOS AIRES – The 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship (LAAC), organized by the Masters Tournament, The R&A and the USGA, will include extensive broadcast coverage around the world.
Fans can tune in to the 10th anniversary of the Championship – highlighted by 108 of the top male amateurs in the region – from January 16-19, 2025. Pilar Golf Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will host the Championship for the second time a decade after hosting the inaugural event in 2015.
The 72-hole, stroke-play Championship aims to further develop the game of golf in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The international broadcast’s commentary team features Rich Lerner as host, Andy North as analyst, Iona Stephen and Steve Burkowski as on-course reporters and John Sutcliffe handling interviews. The first and second rounds will air live from 3-6 p.m. local on Thursday, January 16 and Friday, January 17. Saturday’s third round will air from 1-4 p.m. local on January 18, while the final round will air from 12-3 p.m. local on Sunday, January 19.
ESPN platforms will provide event coverage in Argentina, as well as throughout Latin America and the United States. Other broadcasters include SuperSport (Africa), Fox Sports (Australia), TSN (Canada), Warner Bros. Discovery Sports (Europe), SBS Sports (Korea), SPOTV (Pan-Asia), and Sky Sports (United Kingdom). All of the coverage will also be streamed live on LAACgolf.com.
The field – which consists of players from 29 countries and territories across Latin America – will vie for the prestigious title, which provides an invitation to the Masters Tournament and exemptions into The Open and the U.S. Open, provided the champion retains his amateur status.
The field is led by 17 players inside the top 200 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), highlighted by Mexico’s Omar Morales (No. 13), Bolivia’s Jose Luis Montaño (No. 43), the Cayman Islands’ Justin Hastings (No. 47), and Brazil’s Andrey Xavier (No. 57) and Herik Machado (No. 61). Morales, a senior at UCLA who was recently named to the Haskins Award Watch List, finished runner-up last year in Panama. Aaron Jarvis, the 2022 Latin America Amateur champion, will make his fifth start in the Championship.
The Latin America Amateur Championship was created in 2014 as a joint initiative between the Masters Tournament, The R&A and the USGA. Notable past competitors include Colombia’s Nico Echavarria and Sebastian Muñoz, Argentina’s Alejandro Tosti and Chile’s Cristobal Del Solar, Mito Pereira and Joaquin Niemann, the latter of which won the 2018 Championship.
For more information on the Latin Amateur Championship, please visit LAACgolf.com and follow @LAAC_Golf on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube.
About the Latin America Amateur Championship
In 2014, the Masters Tournament, The R&A and the USGA announced the formation of the Latin America Amateur Championship in an effort to further develop amateur golf throughout the region, specifically in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The field is comprised annually of the top male amateurs in Latin America representing the 29 IOC-recognized countries and territories from this region that are current members of the International Golf Federation. The champion receives an invitation to compete in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club and automatically qualifies for The Open and U.S. Open. The winner also receives full exemptions into The Amateur Championship, the U.S. Amateur Championship and any other USGA amateur championship for which he is eligible. Runner(s)-up will be exempt into the final stages of qualifying for The Open and U.S. Open.
