Tsukasa Watanabe
Appearance
Tsukasa Watanabe 渡辺司 | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | 16 February 1957
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) |
Sporting nationality | Japan |
Residence | Tokyo, Japan |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1981 |
Former tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
Professional wins | 8 |
Highest ranking | 80 (14 August 1994)[1] |
Number of wins by tour | |
Japan Golf Tour | 2 |
Other | 6 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T51: 1994 |
Tsukasa Watanabe (Japanese: 渡辺司, born 16 February 1957) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Career
[edit]Watanabe was born in Tokyo. He played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning twice, and earned over 780,000,000 ¥.
He played on the 1994 International Team in the Presidents Cup.
Professional wins (8)
[edit]PGA of Japan Tour wins (2)
[edit]No. | Date | Tournament | Winning Score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 7 Nov 1993 | Daiwa International | −10 (68-72-64-70=274) | 1 stroke | Chen Tze-chung, Tom Kite |
2 | 19 Jun 1994 | Yomiuri Open | −14 (68-64-67-71=270) | 2 strokes | Anthony Gilligan |
PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (0–3)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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1 | 1990 | Chushikoku Open | Masayuki Kawamura, Seiki Okuda | |
2 | 1993 | JCB Classic Sendai | Hajime Meshiai, Yoshi Mizumaki | Mizumaki won with birdie on sixth extra hole |
3 | 1997 | Nikkei Cup Torakichi Nakamura Memorial | Yeh Chang-ting | Lost to par on second extra hole |
Other wins (1)
[edit]Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (5)
[edit]- 2008 Japan PGA Senior Championship, Fujifilm Senior Championship
- 2009 Japan Senior Open
- 2013 Japan PGA Senior Championship
- 2015 Fuji Film Senior Championship
Results in major championships
[edit]Tournament | 1994 |
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The Open Championship | T51 |
Note: Watanabe only played in The Open Championship.
"T" = tied
Team appearances
[edit]This list may be incomplete.
- Four Tours World Championship (representing Japan): 1991
- Presidents Cup (International Team): 1994
- Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Japan): 1995, 1997, 2000
References
[edit]- ^ "Week 33 1994 Ending 14 Aug 1994" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
External links
[edit]- Tsukasa Watanabe at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Tsukasa Watanabe at the Official World Golf Ranking official site