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.
The 10th anniversary of the Championship, which will feature 108 of the top male amateurs in the region, will be held from Jan. 16-19, 2025 at Pilar Golf Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the second time a decade after hosting the inaugural event in 2015.
The 72-hole, stroke-play Championship is working to develop the game of golf in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The international broadcast’s commentary team will feature 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, Jan. 16 and Friday, Jan. 17. The third round on Saturday will air from 1-4 p.m. local on Jan. 18, while the final round will air from noon-3 p.m. local on Sunday, Jan. 19.
Event coverage in Argentina, as well as throughout Latin America and the United States will be on ESPN platforms. 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 compete for the prestigious title, which provides an invitation to the Masters Tournament and exemptions into The Open and the U.S. Open, as long as 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.
