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"FacebookPinterest\n\nBorn and raised in Colombia, the 24-year-old Villegas (pronounced be-jay-gas) represents what tour commissioner Tim Finchem hopes to be the new face of the game. \"Golf needs to look more like the rest of the country and the rest of the world,\" admits Finchem, \"and it's heading in that direction.\" Of course, looks aren't everything. While Villegas's J.Lindeberg wardrobe draws stares, it's his aggressive game that makes the most noise: a trio of top-three nishes by early spring and more than $1.2 million in earnings. At just ve feet nine, he smacks the crap out of the ball, averaging 307 yards off the tee. And television can't get enough of him: At Hilton Head in April, he found himself up to his knees in a canal, trying to hit a ball teetering on the edge of a slope. \"There was an eight-foot gator about thirty yards away,\" he says. \"Once I got in there, I just started sinking, and the shot became harder and harder. But I had a camera on me, and I couldn't back out.\" Villegas ended up ubbing that shot and missing the cut. But it didn't stop USA Network from striding step by step with him up the eighteenth fairway, as if he were Arnold Palmer. Villegas knows what the camera wants and what the tour needs\u2014and not even a gator is going to stop him from delivering."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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