Rikuya Hoshino
| Rikuya Hoshino | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | 12 May 1996 Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) | ||
| Sporting nationality |  Japan | ||
| Career | |||
| Turned professional | 2016 | ||
| Current tour(s) | European Tour Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour | ||
| Professional wins | 7 | ||
| Highest ranking | 63 (22 May 2022)[1] (as of 24 November 2024) | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| Japan Golf Tour | 6 | ||
| Other | 1 | ||
| Best results in major championships | |||
| Masters Tournament | DNP | ||
| PGA Championship | T60: 2022 | ||
| U.S. Open | T26: 2021 | ||
| The Open Championship | T60: 2023 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Rikuya Hoshino (星野陸也, Hoshino Rikuya, born 12 May 1996) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 2017 and has won six times on the tour.
Professional career
Hoshino turned professional in August 2016.[2] In early 2017, he won the Novil Cup on the Japan Challenge Tour.[citation needed]
Since 2017, Hoshino has played on the main Japan Golf Tour. His first win came in September 2018 at the Fujisankei Classic which he won by 5 strokes. With eight more top-10 finishes he finished 2018 as the 6th highest money winner on the tour. Hoshino qualified for the 2018 U.S. Open, his first major, where he missed the cut.[3]
In May 2019, Hoshino lost in a playoff for the Kansai Open Golf Championship before winning his second Japan Golf Tour event at the Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open in June, a tournament reduced to 54 holes. A third-place finish in the Japan PGA Championship the following week lifted him into the top-100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Later in 2019, he finished runner-up in the RIZAP KBC Augusta.[citation needed]
Hoshino won the Fujisankei Classic for the second time in 2020, beating Mikumu Horikawa at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff.[4]
Professional wins (7)
Japan Golf Tour wins (6)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 Sep 2018 | Fujisankei Classic | −16 (68-68-66-66=268) | 5 strokes | Shugo Imahira
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| 2 | 30 Jun 2019 | Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open | −20 (67-64-65=196)* | 2 strokes | Shota Akiyoshi
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| 3 | 6 Sep 2020 | Fujisankei Classic (2) | −9 (69-69-67-70=275) | Playoff | Mikumu Horikawa
|
| 4 | 25 Apr 2021 | Kansai Open Golf Championship | −14 (66-67-68-69=270) | 2 strokes |  Chan Kim
|
| 5 | 16 May 2021 | Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf | −13 (72-65-69-69=275) | 4 strokes |  Juvic Pagunsan
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| 6 | 30 Oct 2022 | Heiwa PGM Championship | −22 (63-68-64-63=258) | 5 strokes | Aguri Iwasaki, Chan Kim
|
*Note: The 2019 Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–2)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2019 | Kansai Open Golf Championship | Tomoharu Otsuki
|
Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole |
| 2 | 2020 | Fujisankei Classic | Mikumu Horikawa
|
Won with birdie on third extra hole |
| 3 | 2022 | Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters | Ryo Ishikawa
|
Lost to birdie on second extra hole |
Japan Challenge Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 Apr 2017 | Novil Cup | −11 (71-68-66=205) | 1 stroke | Kunihiro Kamii, Katsuyuki Sakurai
|
Results in major championships
Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.
| Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | ||||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | T60 | T62 | |||
| U.S. Open | CUT | T26 | CUT | |||
| The Open Championship | NT | CUT | CUT | T60 |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
References
- ^ "Week 21 2022 Ending 22 May 2022" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- ^ "Rikuya Hoshino". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Rikuya Hoshino earns U.S. Open spot as late entry". The Japan Times. 12 June 2018.
- ^ "Rikuya Hoshino makes V2 at Fujisankei CL after tough 3-hole playoffs". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
External links
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Asian Tour official site
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Official World Golf Ranking official site