Tsuneyuki Nakajima

Tsuneyuki Nakajima

Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima (born 20 October 1954) is a Japanese 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 2007).

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. [ [http://dps.twiihosting.net/wgr/doc/content/2007%20Stats/86TO0810.pdf 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking] ] He ranked as high as fifth on its predecessor McCormack's World Golf Rankings.

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

Japan Golf Tour wins (48)

*1973-1984 "18 wins" not complete
*1976 Golf Digest Tournament
*1977 Japan PGA Championship
*1980 (1) Mitsubishi Galant Tournament
*1982 Dunlop International Open, Fujisankei Classic, ANA Open, Nippon Series, Nagano Open, JPGA East-West Tournament
*1983 Shizuoka Open, Japan PGA Match-Play Championship, Mitsubishi Galant Tournament, ANA Open, Japan PGA Championship, Suntory Open, Goldwin Cup Japan-U.S. Match, JPGA East-West Tournament
*1984 (2) Japan PGA Championship, Kanto Open
*1985 (6) Yomiuri Open, Kanto Pro Championship, ANA Open, Japan Open, Taiheiyo Masters, Phoenix Tournament
*1986 (6) Japan PGA Match-Play Championship, Mitsubishi Galant Tournament, Mizuno Open, Kanto Pro Championship, Japan Open, Golf Digest Tournament
*1987 (1) Tokai Classic
*1990 (3) Kanto Pro Championship, ANA Open, Japan Open
*1991 (2) Yomiuri Open, Japan Open
*1992 (3) Pepsi Ube Kosan Open, NST Niigata Open, Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Promise Cup
*1993 (2) ANA Open, Nippon Series
*1994 (3) Dydo Shizuoka Open, Tsuruya Open, Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
*1995 (1) Fujisankei Classic
*2002 (2) Diamond Cup Tournament, Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters
*2006 (1) Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters

Other wins

*1973 Japan Amateur Championship
*1976 Young Lions Tournament
*1977 Young Lions Tournament

Japan Senior PGA Tour wins (3)

"this list may be incomplete"
*2005 Japan Senior Open
*2006 Japan Senior Open, Japan PGA Senior Championship

References

External links

* [http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG05020200Profile.do?playerCd=657&playerTourKbn=2 Profile on the Japan Golf Tour's official site]


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