Toshimitsu Izawa
| Toshimitsu Izawa 伊沢利光 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born | 2 March 1968 Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) | ||
| Sporting nationality |  Japan | ||
| Career | |||
| College | Nihon Taiiku University | ||
| Turned professional | 1989 | ||
| Current tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour | ||
| Professional wins | 17 | ||
| Highest ranking | 15 (16 December 2001)[1] | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| Japan Golf Tour | 16 | ||
| Best results in major championships | |||
| Masters Tournament | T4: 2001 | ||
| PGA Championship | T18: 2003 | ||
| U.S. Open | T44: 2001 | ||
| The Open Championship | T22: 2002 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Toshimitsu Izawa (Japanese: 伊沢利光, born 2 March 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer. He is sometimes known outside Japan as Toshi Izawa.
Izawa was born in Kanagawa, attended Nihon Taiiku University, and turned professional in 1989.
Izawa's career on the Japan Golf Tour developed quite slowly. His first win came in 1995, and he did not make the top ten on the money list until 1999, when he was thirty one years old. He went on to top the money list in 2001 and 2003. In the first of those years he set a record of ¥217,934,583 in earnings which survived though the 2004 season, and his dominant form in Japan lifted him into the top twenty in the Official World Golf Ranking. He has 16 victories on the Japan Golf Tour and is eighth on the career money list (through 2013).
Izawa has only played a limited number of tournaments outside Japan, but in 2001 he finished tied fourth at the Masters Tournament, which is one of golf's four major championships, and tied for second at the PGA Tour's Nissan Open. In 2002, he won the WGC-World Cup for Japan in partnership with Shigeki Maruyama.
Japan Golf Tour wins (16)
- 1995 (1) Japan Open
- 1998 (1) Tokai Classic
- 1999 (2) Aiful Cup, NST Niigata Open Golf Championship
- 2000 (3) JGTO TPC iiyama Cup, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters
- 2001 (5) Diamond Cup Tournament, Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, Georgia Tokai Classic, Bridgestone Open, Philip Morris K.K. Championship
- 2003 (2) Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishidohills Cup, Woodone Open Hiroshima
- 2005 (1) Under Armour KBC Augusta
- 2007 (1) Japan PGA Championship
Other wins
this list is probably incomplete
- 2002 WGC-World Cup (with Shigeki Maruyama)
Results in major championships
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | T4 | CUT | CUT | CUT | |||||
| U.S. Open | T44 | WD | CUT | ||||||
| The Open Championship | T22 | CUT | |||||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | T39 | T53 | T18 |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Results in World Golf Championships
| Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accenture Match Play Championship | R32 | R32 | R16 | R64 |
| Bridgestone Invitational | T24 | T14 | ||
| Cadillac Championship | NT1 | T25 |
1Cancelled due to 9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
Team appearances
External links
- Toshimitsu Izawa at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Toshimitsu Izawa at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
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- ^ "Week 50 2001 Ending 16 Dec 2001" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 3 October 2019.