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Rikuya Hoshino
Personal information
Born (1996-05-12) 12 May 1996 (age 28)
Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional2016
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Asian Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking63 (22 May 2022)[1]
(as of 24 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour3
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenCUT: 2018
The Open ChampionshipDNP

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 Japan Shugo Imahira
2 30 Jun 2019 Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open −20 (67-64-65=196) 2 strokes Japan Shota Akiyoshi
3 6 Sep 2020 Fujisankei Classic (2) −9 (69-69-67-70=275) Playoff Japan Mikumu Horikawa

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2019 Kansai Open Golf Championship Japan Tomoharu Otsuki Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole
2 2020 Fujisankei Classic Japan 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 Japan Kunihiro Kamii, Japan Katsuyuki Sakurai

Results in major championships

Tournament 2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut

References

  1. ^ "Week 21 2022 Ending 22 May 2022" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Rikuya Hoshino". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Rikuya Hoshino earns U.S. Open spot as late entry". The Japan Times. 12 June 2018.