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 Asian Tour |
| Professional wins | 4 |
| Highest ranking | 63 (22 May 2022)[1] (as of 4 August 2024) |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Japan Golf Tour | 3 |
| 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.[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]
Professional wins (4)
Japan Golf Tour wins (3)
| 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
|
| 3 | 6 Sep 2020 | Fujisankei Classic (2) | −9 (69-69-67-70=275) | Playoff | Mikumu Horikawa
|
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–1)
| 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 |
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