Eugenio Faxas

Once having improved his financial situation, and having not played baseball for a long time, at the age of thirty Faxas had the opportunity and the necessary connections to start playing golf as a hobby and informally, not knowing his future impact on the growth of golf in the Dominican Republic, and his later achievements as a golfer. Faxas won the three straight first rank in his first golf national match, made by the Dominican Golf Association, at Santiago Golf Club.

Faxas married Teresa Vargas and they had five children: Pelayo, Laura, Juan, Angel, and Patricio.^[1] His daughter, Laura Faxas, was the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic at UNESCO in Paris, France, and his son, Angel "El Mono" Faxas, is the Director of Direccion General de Ganaderia, the government office in the Dominican Republic that works with livestock.