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) | Japan Golf Tour |
| Professional wins | 3 |
| Highest ranking | 63 (22 May 2022)[1] (as of 9 June 2024) |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Japan Golf Tour | 2 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
| U.S. Open | CUT: 2018 |
| The Open Championship | DNP |
Rikuya Hoshino (born 12 May 1996) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 2017 and has won twice on the tour, in 2018 and 2019.
Professional career
Hoshino turned professional in August 2016.[2] In early 2017, he won the Novil Cup on the Japan Challenge Tour.
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.
Professional wins (3)
Japan Golf Tour wins (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 Sep 2018 | Fujisankei Classic | −16 (68-68-66-66=268) | 5 strokes | Shugo Imahira
|
| 2 | 30 Jun 2019 | Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open | −20 (67-64-65=196) | 2 strokes | Shota Akiyoshi
|
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2019 | Kansai Open Golf Championship | Tomoharu Otsuki
|
Lost to birdie on fourth 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
| Tournament | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | |
| U.S. Open | CUT |
| The Open Championship | |
| PGA Championship |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
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.
External links
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Official World Golf Ranking official site