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Masahiro Kuramoto
倉本昌弘Personal information Nickname Massy Born 9 September 1955
Hiroshima Prefecture, JapanHeight 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) Weight 66 kg (150 lb; 10.4 st) Nationality Japan Career Turned professional 1981 Current tour(s) European Seniors Tour Former tour(s) Japan Golf Tour
PGA Tour
Champions TourProfessional wins 35 Number of wins by tour Japan Golf Tour 30 European Seniors Tour 1 Best results in Major Championships Masters Tournament DNP U.S. Open CUT: 1993, 1994 The Open Championship T4: 1982 PGA Championship T42: 1982 Masahiro "Massy" Kuramoto (倉本昌弘 Kuramoto Masahiro , born 9 September 1955) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Kuramoto was born in Hiroshima. He turned professional in 1981. He has won 30 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking fifth on the career list. He ranks seventh on the career money list with earnings of just over 1 billion ¥.
Kuramoto won the 1992 PGA Tour qualifying school and played full-time on the Tour in 1993. He played 65 times on the PGA Tour from 1978 to 1997. His best finish was a T-4 at the 1982 British Open (also his best finish in a major championship).
In 2005, he won the Champions Tour qualifying school, and he began play on that tour in 2006. His best finish is a fourth place finish in the 2006 Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.
Contents
Amateur wins
- 1975 Japan Amateur Championship
- 1977 Japan Amateur Championship
- 1980 Japan Amateur Championship
Professional wins
Japan Golf Tour wins (30)
- 1980 (1) Chushikoku Open (as an amateur)
- 1981 (4) ANA Sapporo Open, Tokai Classic, Chushikoku Open, Nihon Kokudo Keikaku Summers
- 1982 (2) Japan PGA Championship, Chushikoku Open
- 1983 (2) Chushikoku Open, Tokai Classic
- 1984 (2) Bridgestone Open, Chushikoku Open
- 1985 (2) Jun Classic (tie with Kazushige Kono and Payne Stewart), Bridgestone Open
- 1986 (2) ANA Open, Tokai Classic
- 1987 (2) Maruman Open, Chushikoku Open
- 1988 (5) Sendai Classic, Yomiuri Open, Kansai Pro Championship, KBC Augusta, Chushikoku Open
- 1990 (1) Seto Uthumi Open
- 1991 (1) Acom International
- 1992 (3) Japan PGA Championship, Bridgestone Open, Daikyo Open
- 1994 (1) JCB Classic Sendai
- 1995 (1) Suntory Open
- 2003 (1) Acom International
Other wins
- 1981 Wakayama Open, Hyogo-ken Open
European Seniors Tour wins (1)
- 2011 Handa Cup Senior Masters (2010 calender year)
Other senior wins
- 2007 Big Raisac Senior Open
- 2010 Japan Senior Open
Results in major championships
Tournament 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP The Open Championship CUT DNP DNP DNP T4 DNP DNP PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP Tournament 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT CUT DNP The Open Championship DNP T30 CUT DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT Note: Kuramoto never played in the Masters Tournament.
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.Team appearances
This list may be incomplete.
- Royal Trophy (Asian team): 2006 (non-playing captain)
- Four Tours World Championship: 1988, 1990
See also
- List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins
External links
- Masahiro Kuramoto at the Japan Golf Tour official site
- Masahiro Kuramoto at the PGA Tour official site
- Masahiro Kuramoto at the European Seniors Tour official site
Categories:- Japanese golfers
- Japan Golf Tour golfers
- PGA Tour golfers
- Champions Tour golfers
- European Seniors Tour golfers
- People from Hiroshima (city)
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Asian golf biography stubs
- Japanese sportspeople stubs
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