Miguel Ángel Carballo is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 professional golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

er who plays mainly on the Nationwide Tour

Nationwide Tour

The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...

. Known affectionately as "El Tati" Carballo, he is the first Argentine to win on the Nationwide Tour. He has played on several Tours in his career, including the European Tour (2006), Challenge Tour

Challenge Tour

The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...

 (2004–05), Tour de las Americas

Tour de las Americas

The Tour de las Américas is the men's professional golf tour for Latin America.Top level tournament golf in Latin America has had an unstable history. Some of the national open championships in the region are long established, but they did not traditionally form a coherent tour...

 from (2003–04) and the Tour Argentino (2002–03).

Career

Carballo made the cut in 17 of 25 starts during his rookie season on the 2007 Nationwide Tour and finished the season No. 31 on the money list, with $177,712. He won the season-opening Movistar Panama Championship

Movistar Panama Championship

The Panama Claro Championship is a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour. It is played annually at Panama Golf Club in Panama. It is one of several tournaments on the Nationwide Tour held outside the United States....

 in his first-ever Nationwide Tour start, earning full status on Tour through the end of the 2008 season. He gained entry into the field by being one of the top-eight players on the Tour de las Americas Order of Merit.

Caraballo posted his first professional victory at the 2006 Abierto Telefonica de Guatemala, a co-sanctioned event on the Challenge Tour and the Tour de Las Americas. He earned his European Tour card for the first time by staging a phenomenal comeback at the 108-hole European Tour Qualifying School

Qualifying school

In professional golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S. based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a...

 in 2005, posting a birdie, hole-in-one, birdie finish on the final three holes to gain playing privileges.

Nationwide Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	28 Jan 2007 2007 Nationwide Tour The 2007 Nationwide Tour season ran from January 25 to November 4. The season consisted of 32 official money golf tournaments; three of which were played outside of the United States. The top 25 players on the year-end money list earned their PGA Tour card for 2008. Nick Flanagan earned his PGA...	Movistar Panama Championship Movistar Panama Championship The Panama Claro Championship is a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour. It is played annually at Panama Golf Club in Panama. It is one of several tournaments on the Nationwide Tour held outside the United States....	-6 (69-67-73-71=276)	2 strokes	Hunter Haas Hunter Haas Hunter Haas is an American professional golfer.Haas was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He won the 1999 U.S. Amateur Public Links. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2000 and turned professional.... ,   Jim McGovern Jim McGovern (golfer) James David McGovern is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.McGovern was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. He grew up in Oradell, New Jersey in a house adjoining the Hackensack Golf Club...   Patrick Sheehan
2	9 Oct 2011 2011 Nationwide Tour The 2011 Nationwide Tour was the 22nd Nationwide Tour season. It ran from February 24 to October 30. The season consisted of 26 official money golf tournaments; three of which were played outside of the United State]. The top 25 players on the year-end money list earned their PGA Tour card for...	Children's Hospital Classic	-24 (69-66-65-64=264)	2 strokes	Brice Garnett

Challenge Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	5 Feb 2006 2006 Challenge Tour The 2006 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was started as the Satellite Tour in 1986 and was renamed the Challenge Tour ready for the start of the 1990 season.The Challenge Tour Rankings...	Abierto Telefonica de Guatemala Abierto Telefonica de Guatemala The Guatemala Open or Abierto de Guatemala is a golf tournament that was on the schedules of the Tour de las Americas and Challenge Tour between 2003 and 2007. It was held at the Hacienda Nueva Country Club in Guatemala City.-Winners:...	-15 (66–66–71–70=273)	Playoff	Gustavo Rojas Gustavo Rojas (golfer) Gustavo Rojas is an Argentine professional golfer.Rojas was born in Buenos Aires. He turned professional in 1984. He has had his greatest success in South America on the various Argentine tours and the regional Tour de las Américas...

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