Rikuya Hoshino
Rikuya Hoshino | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan | 12 May 1996
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) |
Nationality | Japan |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2016 |
Current tour(s) | European Tour Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour |
Professional wins | 6 |
Highest ranking | 69 (16 May 2021)[1] (as of 19 September 2021) |
Number of wins by tour | |
Japan Golf Tour | 5 |
Other | 1 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | CUT: 2021 |
U.S. Open | T26: 2021 |
The Open Championship | CUT: 2021 |
Rikuya Hoshino (星野陸也, Hoshino Rikuya, born 12 May 1996) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 2017 and has won five times on the tour.
Professional career[]
Hoshino turned professional in August 2016.[2] In early 2017, he won the Novil Cup on the Japan Challenge Tour.[citation needed]
Since 2017, Hoshino has played on the main Japan Golf Tour. His first win came in September 2018 at the Fujisankei Classic which he won by 5 strokes. With eight more top-10 finishes he finished 2018 as the 6th highest money winner on the tour. Hoshino qualified for the 2018 U.S. Open, his first major, where he missed the cut.[3]
In May 2019, Hoshino lost in a playoff for the Kansai Open Golf Championship before winning his second Japan Golf Tour event at the Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open in June, a tournament reduced to 54 holes. A third-place finish in the Japan PGA Championship the following week lifted him into the top-100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Later in 2019, he finished runner-up in the RIZAP KBC Augusta.[citation needed]
Hoshino won the Fujisankei Classic for the second time in 2020, beating at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff.[4]
Professional wins (6)[]
Japan Golf Tour wins (5)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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1 | 2 Sep 2018 | Fujisankei Classic | −16 (68-68-66-66=268) | 5 strokes | Shugo Imahira |
2 | 30 Jun 2019 | Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open | −20 (67-64-65=196)* | 2 strokes | Shota Akiyoshi |
3 | 6 Sep 2020 | Fujisankei Classic (2) | −9 (69-69-67-70=275) | Playoff | |
4 | 25 Apr 2021 | Kansai Open Golf Championship | −14 (66-67-68-69=270) | 2 strokes | Chan Kim |
5 | 16 May 2021 | Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf | −13 (72-65-69-69=275) | 4 strokes | Juvic Pagunsan |
*Note: The 2019 Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2019 | Kansai Open Golf Championship | Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole | |
2 | 2020 | Fujisankei Classic | Won with birdie on third extra hole |
Japan Challenge Tour wins (1)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
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1 | 2 Apr 2017 | Novil Cup | −11 (71-68-66=205) | 1 stroke | , |
Results in major championships[]
Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.
Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Masters Tournament | ||||
PGA Championship | CUT | |||
U.S. Open | CUT | T26 | ||
The Open Championship | NT | CUT |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
References[]
- ^ "Week 20 2021 Ending 16 May 2021" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Rikuya Hoshino". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Rikuya Hoshino earns U.S. Open spot as late entry". The Japan Times. 12 June 2018.
- ^ "Rikuya Hoshino makes V2 at Fujisankei CL after tough 3-hole playoffs". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
External links[]
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Rikuya Hoshino at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
- Japanese male golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- Olympic golfers of Japan
- Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Ibaraki Prefecture
- 1996 births
- Living people