Tadashi Kitta
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Tadashi Kitta | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan | 20 April 1934
Died | 22 March 2003 | (aged 68)
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st) |
Nationality | Japan |
Career | |
Status | Professional |
Former tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
Professional wins | 27 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Japan Golf Tour | 2 |
Other | 25 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | CUT: 1970, 1971 |
Tadashi Kitta (橘田 規, Kitta Tadashi, 20 April 1934 - 22 March 2003) was a Japanese professional golfer.
Kitta played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning twice. He won a dozen tournaments in Japan prior to the formation of the Japan Golf Tour and also won the Thailand Open in 1966.
Professional wins (27)[]
Japan Golf Tour wins (2)[]
- 1974 Chubu Open
- 1977 Japan PGA Match-Play Championship
Far East Circuit wins (1)[]
Other wins (20)[]
- 1957 Kansai Pro Championship
- 1958 Kansai Open
- 1960 Yomiuri Pro Championship
- 1962 Chunichi Crowns, Kansai Open
- 1963 Japan PGA Championship, Kansai Open
- 1964 Japan PGA Championship, Golden Match
- 1965 Japan Open, Chunichi Crowns, Golden Match, Woodlawn Invitational[1]
- 1966 Kansai Pro Championship, Kuzuha International
- 1967 Japan Open
- 1968 West Japan Circuit Shimonoseki leg
- 1969 Kuzuha International
- 1971 Rolex Tournament
- 1972 Chubu Open
Senior wins (4)[]
- 1985 Kansai Pro Senior Championship
- 1986 Japan PGA Senior Championship, Kansai Pro Senior Championship
- 1994 Kansai Pro Grand Senior
Team appearances[]
- Canada Cup (representing Japan): 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
References[]
- ^ "Japanese golfer wins tournament". Austin American-Statesman. Austin, Texas. 9 August 1965. p. 24. Retrieved 8 April 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links[]
- Tadashi Kitta at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Japan PGA Hall of Fame (in Japanese)
Categories:
- Japanese male golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture
- 1934 births
- 2003 deaths
- Japanese golf biography stubs