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Japan&#x;s magnificent seven on the DP World Tour competing at the ISPS HANDA - CHAMPIONSHIP
The DP World Tour hosts an event in Japan for the first time this week, with several home stars looking to make their mark at the ISPS HANDA – CHAMPIONSHIP.
It is the first regular tournament in history to be co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and the Japan Golf Tour Organisation, with the PGM Ishioka Golf Club serving as host venue.
A strong continent of Japanese golfers are in the field in Omitama, including seven who are DP World Tour members.
Here, we profile those players as they look to become just the third player from Japan to win a Tour event after Isao Aoki at the European Open in and Hideki Matsuyama at the WGC-HSBC Champions in , WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the Masters Tournament in
Masahiro Kawamura
We begin our rundown with the leading Japanese golfer on the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex. In his eight appearances so far this season, the year-old has registered two top tens including a runner-up finish at the Magical Kenya Open Presented by Absa – his most recent start. Kawamura kept his full playing privileges by finishing 87th on the season-long rankings, registering three top tens along the way. He earned his debut season on the Tour by progressing through the Qualifying School in Prior to finishing second in Kenya last month, his previous best finish on the DP World Tour was another runner-up performance at the Aphrodite Hills Cyprus Showdown in November His only professional title came in the Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open on the Japan Golf Tour in , where he came from a two-shot deficit in the final round to defeat Major champion Y.E. Yang.
Masahiro Kawamura was runner-up to Robert MacIntyre in Cyprus in
Ryo Hisatsune
Just a place behind Kawamura on the Race to Dubai Rankings is a genuine future star in year-old Hisatsune. He has enjoyed a fine start to his DP World Tour career since securing his card at the
Adam Scott Wins World Golf Championships
Adam Scott wins the World Golf Championships by 4 strokes over Rickie Fowler. Scott joins Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Henrik Stenson as the only four players to win THE PLAYERS Championship and a World Golf Championships event in their careers. Scott now has the fourth most wins by an Australian on TOUR: Greg Norman (20), Steve Elkington (10), Stuart Appleby (10) and Adam Scott (8). Scott moves to No. 15 in the FedExCup standings, almost guaranteeing a spot in the season-ending TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola. He won at East Lake in , the year before the FedExCup began, but has only qualified for the PGA TOUR Playoffs finale twice in the past four years.
The third-round leader/co-leader has now won eight of 13 times at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone
Invitational. Scott is the first third-round leader to go on to victory since when Vijay Singh won after finishing
54 holes tied with Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood. Scott held at least a share of the lead after each round of the Bridgestone Invitational. Scott’s only lead in a World Golf Championships event coming into this week was after the first round of the Bridgestone Invitational in (finished T10). Scott, who has eight PGA TOUR wins, had never led or shared the lead in all three rounds of a PGA TOUR event and gone on to win. Scott has now won six of eight events when holding the hole lead/co-lead. This is Scott’s ninth time playing the Bridgestone Invitational. In his eight previous starts at Firestone Country Club, the Australian has only finished under par twice ( -5, -5).
This is the fourth event that Steve Williams has caddied for Adam Scott. Williams was on the bag for Tiger Woods
for all of his seven victories at the Bridgestone Invitational.
Scott’s opening round 62 is the lowest start by a winner at the Bridgestone Invitational. Stewart Cink had the record with a 63 in
Rickie Fowler led the field with only total putts this week. Fowle April Officials and fellow competitors poured deserved praise and adoration on Japan’s history-maker Hideki Matsuyama, whose nail-biting victory at the Masters Tournament on Sunday was tipped to spark a new wave of talents emerging from Japan and Asia for decades to come. The year-old Matsuyama became the first Asian male golfer to triumph at Augusta National, capturing his first major victory and sixth PGA TOUR title during a year when Tokyo will host the rescheduled Olympic Games later in July where golf is part of the program. PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan said: “On behalf of the PGA TOUR, our congratulations to Hideki Matsuyama on becoming the first Japanese-born player to win a major championship with his Masters Tournament victory. Already Japan’s leader in career PGA TOUR wins, Hideki has carried on a rich legacy paved by Isao Aoki, Jumbo Ozaki, Shigeki Maruyama, and others. His historic win will inspire so many in his home country and around the world and coincides perfectly with this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo where he will undoubtedly be a central figure.” There are already calls for Japan’s golf superstar to be given the honor of lighting the Olympic Games cauldron during the opening ceremony, although the often-reticent Matsuyama responded in typical fashion: “It would be quite an honor. But I'm not sure about my schedule. If the schedules worked out and I am in Japan when that happens and they ask me, what an honor that would be.” As Asia’s second male golfer to win a major after Y.E. Yang’s triumph in the PGA Championship which, together with K.J. Choi’s eight TOUR wins led to a sharp rise in the number of Korean golfers competing on the PGA TOUR, many expect Matsuyama’s dream victory to provide a similar springboard for the game in Japan and Asia. This times nicely with recent reports on the sport gaining some new-found momentum in its growth and . Officials And Players Heap Praise On Matsuyama Predict Next Golf Rush In Asia