Ortiz was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He played college golf in the United States at the University of Arkansas from 2014 to 2018. At the 2017 Summer Universiade, he finished 9th in the individual competition and was on the Mexican team that won the silver medal. He played in the Mexican team in the Eisenhower Trophy in 2014, 2016, and 2018. He won the 2019 Latin America Amateur Championship, a result which gained him an invitation to the 2019 Masters Tournament. Ortiz had been runner-up in the event in 2017 and 2018. In the Masters, he made the cut and finished tied for 36th place with a score of 286, 2-under-par, one stroke behind Viktor Hovland, who won the Silver Cup as the leading amateur.