Teenager books Masters spot

19–year old Toto Gana won the title on the second extra hole at Club de Golf de Panama to beat fellow Chilean Joaquin Niemann and Mexican Alvaro Ortiz. 

Ortiz, 21, parred the hole, and 18 year-old Niemann bogeyed after Gana had hit a superb approach from just inside 100 yards for a two–footer and victory. 

"I don't realize yet what I've won," Gana, speaking through an interpreter, said after being presented with the trophy by R&A captain Keith MacIntosh. "Two days ago, I was nobody and now I can't wait to play the Masters!" 

Gana also earned exemptions into both the British and U.S. amateur championships.

So young Toto Gana goes from 285th place in the world amateur rankings, and total obscurity, to teeing it with the big boys in Augusta. There's only one word for that, and it has to be marvellous!

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