Ramón Sota - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Apr 23, 1938 Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain Died on 28 Aug 2012 (aged 74)

Spanish professional golfer

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About Ramón Sota

  • Ramón Sota Ocejo (23 April 1938 – 28 August 2012) was a Spanish professional golfer. Sota was born in Pedreña, Cantabria.
  • He won many professional tournaments around the world including some of the major national opens around Europe that formed the basis of the European Tour when it was formed in 1972.
  • Those wins included his own national open, three Portuguese Opens and the French Open.
  • He recorded several victories farther afield, including winning the Brazil Open in 1965.
  • He was also Spanish professional champion four times. In 1965, Sota finished 6th at the U.S.
  • Masters, which at the time was the best performance in the tournament by any European.
  • He finished 10th on the European Order of Merit in 1971, the year prior to the official start of the new European Tour.
  • He only competed on the tour for one season, in 1972.
  • During that season's Double Diamond International he became the first player ever to be penalised for slow play in Britain.
  • The humiliation he felt following the incident led him to retire shortly afterwards, although he did return to play on the European Seniors Tour for a few years in the mid 1990s. Sota started the Club de Golf Ramon Sota in Marina de Cudeyo, which has a 9-hole par–3 course and a golf school.
  • He was also the uncle of Spain's most successful golfer, Seve Ballesteros. Sota died in August 2012 of pneumonia.

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