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Tsuneyuki Nakajima
中嶋常幸
Personal information
NicknameTommy
Born (1954-10-20) 20 October 1954 (age 70)
Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight88 kg (194 lb; 13.9 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional1975
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins56
Highest ranking4 (1986)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour48 (3rd all-time)
Other8
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT8: 1986
PGA Championship3rd: 1988
U.S. OpenT9: 1987
The Open ChampionshipT8: 1986
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour
leading money winner		1982, 1983, 1985, 1986

Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima (Japanese: 中嶋常幸, born (中島常幸) 20 October 1954) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Nakajima was born in Gunma. He turned professional in 1975. He has won 48 events on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking third on the most Japan Golf Tour wins list. He also was the leading money winner four times in five years: 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986. He is second on the career money list (through 2009).

Nakajima featured in the top 5 of the Official World Golf Rankings and was ranked in the top-10 for 85 weeks from their debut in 1986 to 1987.[1] He ranked as high as fifth on its predecessor McCormack's World Golf Rankings.

At the 1978 Masters Tournament, Nakajima made a 13 on the par-5 13th hole. After hitting his fourth shot into Rae's Creek, Nakajima elected to play the ball rather than take a drop. He popped the ball straight up and it landed on his foot, causing a two-stroke penalty. When he handed the club to his caddie, it slipped out of his hand and fell into the creek, incurring another two-stroke penalty. He chipped over the green, chipped back on and two-putted for the highest single-hole score in the history of the tournament.[2]

Also in 1978, Nakajima was in contention at the Open Championship on the third day at St Andrews until he putted into - and then took four attempts to escape from - the Road Hole bunker at the 17th for a quintuple bogey, which led the British tabloids to christen that bunker, for a while, "the Sands of Nakajima". Nakajima's best finish in a major was third at the 1988 PGA Championship.

He would also feature in an epic match at the 1982 Suntory World Match Play Championship at Wentworth when he lost to Sandy Lyle only after an extended playoff.

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

  • 1973 Japan Amateur Championship

Professional wins (56)

Japan Golf Tour wins (48)

Other wins (3)

Japan Senior PGA Tour wins (5)

Results in major championships

Tournament 1978 1979
Masters Tournament CUT
U.S. Open
The Open Championship T17 CUT
PGA Championship
Tournament 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
Masters Tournament T16 T33 T47 T8 CUT T33 CUT
U.S. Open T26 CUT T53 T9 T32
The Open Championship T36 T8 T59
PGA Championship CUT T10 CUT T47 CUT 3
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Masters Tournament T10 CUT CUT
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT T55 T49
PGA Championship CUT T21 CUT T61 CUT T52
Tournament 2000 2001 2002
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT
PGA Championship
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 6
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 4
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 6
PGA Championship 0 0 1 1 2 3 12 6
Totals 0 0 1 1 6 9 37 22
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (1986 Masters – 1986 PGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (six times)

Team appearances

See also

References

  1. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking
  2. ^ Winokur, Jon (2002). How to Win at Golf: Without Actually Playing Well. Pavilion Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-1862055919.
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