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Vincente Fernandez
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EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31
on 2001 SENIOR TOUR Money List
FULL NAME: Vicente Fernandez
HEIGHT: 5-10
WEIGHT: 170
BIRTHDATE: April 5, 1946
BIRTHPLACE: Corrientes, Argentina
RESIDENCE: Buenos Aires, Argentina
FAMILY: Wife, Esther; Gustavo (7/31/74), Norberto
(11/29/75)
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Sports, music
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1964
JOINED TOUR: 1996
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| SENIOR TOUR Victories |
| (3) 1996 Burnet Senior Classic. 1997 Bank One Classic.
1999 Las Vegas Senior Classic. |
| International Victories |
| 2000 Chrysler Senior Match Play Challenge |
| Other Victories |
| 1968-69, 1981, 1984-87, 1990 Argentine Opens. 1970 Dutch
Open. 1972 Ford Maracaibo Open. 1975 Benson & Hedges Festival.
1977, 1983-84 Brazil Opens. 1979 Colgate PGA Championship.
1990 Tenerife Open (playoff). 1992 Murphy's English Open. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup
Points and Positions |
| 126 (23rd) |
| Current Year SENIOR PGA TOUR Money
and Positions |
| $185,719 (27) |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Finishes |
| T7--Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley; T8--Emerald Coast
Classic; T9--Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Round |
| 67 at Round 3, Audi Senior Classic, at Round 2, Toshiba
Senior Classic |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| T11--1977 Houston Open. |
| Best 2001 SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| 2--Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Champ, Las Vegas
Senior Classic; 4--AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship;
T8--ACE Group Classic, Kroger Senior Classic; T9--Royal
Caribbean Classic; T10--FleetBoston Classic |
| 2001 Season SENIOR TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--29; in money--28; Top-10 finishes--7 |
| 2001 Season Highlights |
| Recorded a pair of runner-up finishes for the fourth
straight year and ranked among the SENIOR TOUR's top 25
on the money list for the sixth consecutive season...Again
had success at the Las Vegas Senior Classic with a T2
at the TPC at Summerlin, the third time in the last four
years he's finished either first or second in Vegas. Trailed
Jerry McGee by three strokes entering the final round,
but carded an even-par 72 and was three strokes back of
Bruce Fleisher at the end...Made it all the way to the
finals of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Match Play Championship
before losing 1-up to Leonard Thompson. Defeated Jim Thorpe
(1-up), Terry Mauney (2-up) and Bob Gilder (19 holes)
to get to the championship match after qualifying with
a 36-hole score of 4-under 140 at Boone Valley GC...Opened
with a 7-under 65, his low score of the campaign, the
following week at the TD Waterhouse Championship and was
among the early leaders in Kansas City...Played his most
consistent golf of the year during the fall when he posted
eight of nine rounds in the 60s from the AT&T Canada Senior
Open through the Allianz Championship. Finished fourth
in Canada thanks to four rounds in the 60s, one of only
two players (Fleisher) to record sub-70 scores for all
four days at Mississaugua...Went over the $5 million mark
in SENIOR TOUR career money at the SENIOR TOUR Championship
at Gaillardia. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2000: Suffered a lower back injury in late July that
forced him to withdraw from the FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship
and take a month off for rehabilitation...Finished second
to Bruce Fleisher by two points at the Royal Caribbean
Classic, a Modified Stableford-format event. His 15 points
on the first day were more than any other player in the
field on Friday...Was also among the early leaders at
the Nationwide Championship, but was edged out on the
final day by Hale Irwin and T2 at the Golf Club of Georgia...Had
a run of 20 straight sub-par rounds during the year (3rd
rd./Countrywide Tradition-3rd rd./BellSouth Senior Classic
at Opryland)...Final-round 8-under 64 at the Gold Rush
Classic was his lowest since posting a 64 on Sunday at
the 1998 Comfort Classic...Capped his season by winning
the Chrysler Senior Match Play Challenge at the Hyatt
Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico. Went into the event as the
lowest of 16 seeded players and upset Larry Nelson, John
Jacobs and Ray Floyd en route to the final match against
Leonard Thompson. Birdied the first hole of a sudden-death
playoff to beat Thompson for the title and $240,000 first-place
check...Also won the Argentine Open for the seventh time,
becoming the oldest ever to claim the biggest event in
the country...Went over the $4 million mark in SENIOR
TOUR career money at the FleetBoston Classic. 1999: Among
the circuit's top-10 money-winners for the first time
in his career, eclipsing the seven-figure mark for the
first time ever...Ended a 20-month victory drought with
a two-stroke win at the Last Vegas Senior Classic. Broke
a tie with Dave Eichelberger by making a 30-foot eagle
putt at the 16th hole. The $210,000 winners check in Vegas
was his largest as a professional...Also came close to
victory earlier in the campaign at the PGA Seniors' Championship.
Shared the lead heading into the final round at PGA National,
but eventually finished second to a hard-charging Allen
Doyle by two strokes...Was also a runner-up at The ACE
Group Classic in Naples, a distant five strokes back of
Doyle. 1998: Closed with a 68 at the Las Vegas Senior
Classic, but fell one stroke short of Hale Irwin...Challenged
Irwin again at the U.S. Senior Open at Riviera CC, but
again came up one short. 1997: Emerged victorious at the
final Bank One Classic in Lexington when he seized the
lead with three holes to play and went on to record a
one-stroke victory over Isao Aoki...Had a string of 19
rounds of par-or-better during the summer, and twice had
five consecutive sub-70 rounds...Ended the season by finishing
his last 13 events under par. 1996: First win was a memorable
one...Posted a one-stroke victory at the Burnet Senior
Classic in July and in the process, became just the fifth
Monday qualifier in SENIOR TOUR history to win a tournament...The
breakthrough came in just his eighth start on the SENIOR
TOUR...Was in contention with Hale Irwin in his first
SENIOR TOUR start before finishing third at the 1996 PGA
Seniors' Championship. |
| Personal |
| The second Argentine to take a crack at the SENIOR PGA
TOUR. Countryman Roberto De Vicenzo, winner of the 1967
British Open, played throughout the 1980s and early 1990s...Nickname
is "Chino"...Competed on the European Tour with current
SENIOR TOUR players John Bland, Hugh Baiocchi, Simon Hobday
and Jose Maria Canizares...Born with one leg shorter than
the other and walks with a slight limp...Caddied for Chi
Chi Rodriguez at the 1962 World Cup in Argentina...One
of his sons, Gustavo, was his caddie for his first senior
win at the Burnet Senior Classic. |
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