Ben Arda was a Filipino

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 professional golf

Golf

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Arda, known as Bantam Ben and the Toy Tiger because of his small stature, was one of Asia's leading golfers during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first Filipino to qualify for the Masters Tournament and The Open Championship

The Open Championship

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. He won many tournaments on the Asian Golf Circuit, including the Philippine Open

Philippine Open (golf)

The Philippine Open is one of the world's longest running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament and Asia's oldest national golf open...

 three times, and headed the money list in 1970. He also won four times on the Japan Golf Tour

Japan Golf Tour

The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour. However since the early 1990s, the growth in prize money has not kept pace with...

 and played in the World Cup 16 times, recording a best finish of 2nd place in 1977 with playing partner Rudy Lavares.

Japan Golf Tour wins (4)

• 1973 Japan Open Golf Championship
  Japan Open Golf Championship
  The is Japan's national open golf championship. As of 2011, it is one of the three richest tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, with a prize fund of ¥200 million...
  
  , Dunlop Tournament
• 1976 Sobu International Open
• 1977 Dunlop International Open

Other wins (9)

This list may be incomplete

• 1961 Philippine Open
  Philippine Open (golf)
  The Philippine Open is one of the world's longest running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament and Asia's oldest national golf open...
  
  
• 1963 Philippine Open
  Philippine Open (golf)
  The Philippine Open is one of the world's longest running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament and Asia's oldest national golf open...
  
  
• 1967 Singapore Open
  Singapore Open (golf)
  The Singapore Open is a golf tournament in Singapore that has been sanctioned by the Asian Tour from that tour's inception in 1995 and by the European Tour since 2009. It was founded in 1961 and was staged annually until 2001, when it was won by Thaworn Wiratchant. It was then cancelled for lack of...
  
  
• 1969 Indian Open
• 1970 Malaysian Open
• 1973 Singapore Open
  Singapore Open (golf)
  The Singapore Open is a golf tournament in Singapore that has been sanctioned by the Asian Tour from that tour's inception in 1995 and by the European Tour since 2009. It was founded in 1961 and was staged annually until 2001, when it was won by Thaworn Wiratchant. It was then cancelled for lack of...
  
  
• 1974 Indonesia Open
• 1976 Thailand Open
  Thailand Open (golf)
  The Thailand Open is a golf tournament. It was an Asian Tour event through 2009. In 2010, it will become part of the fledgling OneAsia Tour's schedule. It was founded in 1965.-Winners:-External links:*...
  
  
• 1979 Philippine Open
  Philippine Open (golf)
  The Philippine Open is one of the world's longest running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament and Asia's oldest national golf open...
  
  

Results in major championships

Tournament	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972
The Masters	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open U.S. Open (golf) The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship PGA Championship The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" = tied

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

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