{"id":182469,"date":"2025-03-13T21:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/?p=182469"},"modified":"2025-03-13T21:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:35:38","slug":"camilo-villegas-primer-latinoamericano-en-liderar-una-ronda-de-the-players-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/?p=182469","title":{"rendered":"Camilo Villegas, primer latinoamericano en liderar una ronda de The Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/olimpicocol.co\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Camilo-Villegas-The-Players-Championship-2025-golf.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luego de un registro de<strong>&nbsp;66 golpes<\/strong>, seis bajo par (-6), el golfista colombiano&nbsp;<strong>Camilo Villegas&nbsp;<\/strong>finaliz\u00f3 en el primer lugar de la general, durante la ronda inicial, del&nbsp;<strong>The Players Championship&nbsp;<\/strong>que tuvo lugar este jueves 13 de marzo en el<strong>&nbsp;TPC Sawgrass<\/strong>&nbsp;de Ponte Vedra Beach en Florida, Estados Unidos.<br \/><br \/>Iniciando por el<strong>&nbsp;hoyo 10<\/strong>, el colombiano registr\u00f3 cinco \u2018birdies\u2019 (golpe menos) al&nbsp;<strong>11<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>12<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>13<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>16<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>17<\/strong>, pero, iniciando los hoyos faltantes, consigui\u00f3 un \u2018bogey\u2019 (golpe m\u00e1s) al<strong>&nbsp;2<\/strong>. R\u00e1pidamente,&nbsp;<strong>Camilo<\/strong>&nbsp;corrigi\u00f3 el traspi\u00e9 con tres \u2018birdies\u2019 m\u00e1s al&nbsp;<strong>3<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;4<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>6<\/strong>, aunque al&nbsp;<strong>7<\/strong>&nbsp;cosech\u00f3 otro \u2018bogey\u2019 que lo dej\u00f3 en el total de<strong>&nbsp;66 golpes<\/strong>&nbsp;(-6) junto al primer lugar compartido con los estadounidenses&nbsp;<strong>Lucas Glover<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>J.J. Spaun<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>Durante algunos hoyos,&nbsp;<strong>Villegas<\/strong>&nbsp;fue l\u00edder solitario en la primera ronda del certamen y aunque termin\u00f3 igualando con otros dos golfistas, su nombre aparece en los registros del&nbsp;<strong>PGA Tour<\/strong>&nbsp;como el primer jugador latinoamericano en liderar una ronda en&nbsp;<strong>The Players<\/strong>, destacando que ya brill\u00f3 en dicho escenario cuando en&nbsp;<strong>2006<\/strong>&nbsp;finaliz\u00f3 en el&nbsp;<strong>tercer lugar<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>Por su parte,&nbsp;<strong>Nicol\u00e1s Echavarr\u00eda&nbsp;<\/strong>cerr\u00f3 la primera ronda compartiendo el puesto 31 de la general con un total de&nbsp;<strong>70 golpes<\/strong>, dos bajo par (-2). El antioque\u00f1o tambi\u00e9n sali\u00f3 por el&nbsp;<strong>hoyo 10<\/strong>&nbsp;y registr\u00f3 cinco \u2018birdies\u2019 al&nbsp;<strong>11<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>14<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>17<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>2<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>5&nbsp;<\/strong>junto a tres \u2018bogeys\u2019 al&nbsp;<strong>12<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>1<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>8<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>Es importante destacar que los \u00faltimos grupos iban por el hoyo 17 cuando la primera ronda del&nbsp;<strong>The Players Championship<\/strong>&nbsp;fue suspendida por oscuridad, por lo que los pendientes se regresar\u00e1n al campo ma\u00f1ana sobre las<strong>&nbsp;8:50 am.<\/strong>&nbsp;(hora local) para finalizar.<br \/><br \/>Por el momento, los dos&nbsp;<strong>colombianos<\/strong>&nbsp;presentes en el certamen se encuentran en el grupo de golfistas que superar\u00edan el corte del \u2018quinto major\u2019 de la temporada, hecho que no sucede para nuestro pa\u00eds desde el<strong>&nbsp;2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Foto cortes\u00eda Federaci\u00f3n Colombiana de Golf.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>olimpicocol.co<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Etiquetas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luego de un registro de&nbsp;66 golpes, seis bajo par (-6), el golfista colombiano&nbsp;Camilo Villegas&nbsp;finaliz\u00f3 en el primer lugar de la general, durante la ronda inicial, del&nbsp;The Players Championship&nbsp;que tuvo lugar este jueves 13 de marzo en el&nbsp;TPC Sawgrass&nbsp;de Ponte Vedra Beach en Florida, Estados Unidos. Iniciando por el&nbsp;hoyo 10, el colombiano registr\u00f3 cinco \u2018birdies\u2019 (golpe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportseco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Camilo-Villegas-The-Players-Championship-2025-golf.jpg?fit=1138%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182471,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182469\/revisions\/182471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}