Player Highlights
This former Argentine Amateur champion is in his second full season on the Web.com Tour, and, based on his record since turning professional in 2008, it won’t be a stretch if he’s among the Tour’s top 25 at year’s end. In 2009 he was rookie of the year on the Tour de las Americas. In 2010 he won an event on the Colombian Tour and was also No. 1 on the Tour de las Americas Order of Merit via eight top-25s (including two victories) in 10 starts. There was more success in 2011. He made the cut at the Puerto Rico Open, his first start on the PGA TOUR, and later that year he captured the Tour de las Americas’ Televisa Players Championship in Acapulco, Mexico, when he fired a closing-round 60. Early in 2012, Etulain, then 23, became the youngest player to win four titles on the Tour de las Americas with a first-place finish at the stop in Rancagua, Chile. In 2013 the young Argentine won the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica’s Lexus Peru Open, and when he won that event the following year, he became the first player on that tour to successfully defend a title, as well as the first player to win three times (his earlier 2014 victory was the Lexus Panama Open). More significantly, Etulain finished No. 1 on the 2014 PGA TOUR Latinoamerica Order of Merit, which earned him exempt status on the Web.com Tour. After easily retaining his card by finishing 39th on the Web.com Tour’s money list in 2015, Etulain made the cut in this year’s first five events, which included a solo second behind Wesley Bryan at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open in March.
