Ramón Sota, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish professional golfer
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Place of Birth: Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain
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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