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Takashi Murakami (golfer)

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Takashi Murakami
村上隆
Personal information
Born (1944-05-25) 25 May 1944 (age 80)
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
StatusProfessional
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins18
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour11
Other7
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT37: 1976
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
PGA of Japan Tour
money list winner
1975

Takashi Murakami (Japanese: 村上隆, born 25 May 1944) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Early life

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Murakami was born in Shizuoka. He started playing golf at the age of 11.[1]

Professional career

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He won 11 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and led the money list in 1975.

Murakami also had a decent amount of success outside of Japan. He recorded a number of runner-up finishes in the Australasian region. They were the 1968 West Australian Championship,[2] 1969 Australian PGA Championship,[3] and 1972 New Zealand PGA Championship.[4] He also had much success on the Asia Golf Circuit events in 1972. He won the Malaysian Open[5] and finished runner-up at the Singapore Open[6] and Hong Kong Open.[7] In the United States he finished in a tie for second at the PGA Tour's 1977 Hawaiian Open. He also played in the Masters Tournament in 1976 and 1977.

Professional wins (18)

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PGA of Japan Tour wins (11)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 29 Jul 1973 All Japan Doubles
(with Japan Hideyo Sugimoto)
−26 (100-101-61=262)
2 29 Apr 1974 Chunichi Crowns −8 (63-71-68-70=272) 6 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki
3 6 Oct 1974 Golf Digest Tournament −17 (66-67-70-68=271) 1 stroke Taiwan Kuo Chie-Hsiung
4 18 May 1975 Japan PGA Match-Play Championship 2 up Japan Namio Takasu
5 28 Sep 1975 Japan Open Golf Championship −10 (74-69-69-66=278) 3 strokes Japan Seiichi Kanai
6 19 Oct 1975 Japan PGA Championship −6 (69-68-70-75=282) Playoff Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto
7 16 Nov 1975 Japan PGA Championship −7 (70-72-71-70=283) 1 stroke Japan Seiichi Kanai, Japan Kosaku Shimada
8 4 Jul 1976 ANA Sapporo Open −3 (74-68-76-67=285) 3 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki
9 8 Aug 1976 Kanto Pro Championship −14 (67-66-70-67=270)
10 31 Oct 1976 Bridgestone Tournament −6 (71-75-69-67=282) Playoff Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan, Japan Masaji Kusakabe
11 23 Oct 1977 Golf Digest Tournament (2) −13 (70-66-67-72=275) 4 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (2–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 1974 Tokyo Charity Classic Japan Haruo Yasuda Lost to birdie on first extra hole
2 1975 Japan PGA Championship Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto Won three-hole aggregate playoff;
Murakami: −1 (4-4-3=11),
Yamamoto: E (4-4-4=12)
3 1976 Bridgestone Tournament Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan, Japan Masaji Kusakabe Won with par on third extra hole
Hsieh eliminated by par on second hole

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1 12 Mar 1972 Malaysian Open −12 (69-66-71-70=276) 1 stroke United States Marty Bohen, New Zealand Walter Godfrey,
Thailand Sukree Onsham

Japanese circuit wins (6)

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Team appearances

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Takashi Murakami". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Townsend wins West Australian title". The Glasgow Herald. 21 October 1968. p. 5.
  3. ^ "Devlin eases up but wins PGA title easily". The Canberra Times. Vol. 44, no. 12464. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 November 1969. p. 14. Retrieved 1 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Japanese wins NZ golf title". The Canberra Times. Vol. 46, no. 13014. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 January 1972. p. 11. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Murakami tops". The Gazette (Montreal). 13 March 1972. p. 17 – via Google News Archive.
  6. ^ "It's Kono's title as Jumbo crashes". The Straits Times. 6 March 1972. p. 31.
  7. ^ "Godfrey Takes Hong Kong Open Under Pressure". The Canberra Times. 3 April 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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