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2008 Tour de las Américas

golf tour season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4612082 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2008 Tour de las Américas was the 17th season of the Tour de las Américas (formerly the South American Tour), the main professional golf tour in Latin America since it was formed in 1991.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2008 season.

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tour, Américas and golf is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2008 Tour de las Américas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.