Satoshi Higashi
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Satoshi Higashi is a Japan
ese professional golf
er.
Higashi has won seven tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour
and featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings
. His most successful year was 1995 when he won four times and finished second on the Japan Golf Tour's money list.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese professional golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
er.
Higashi has won seven tournaments 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 featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings
Official World Golf Rankings
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers...
. His most successful year was 1995 when he won four times and finished second on the Japan Golf Tour's money list.
Japan Golf Tour wins (7)
- 1987 (1) Yomiuri OpenYomiuri OpenThe Yomiuri Open was a golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour from at least 1979 to 2006. In 2007 it merged with the Mizuno Open to form the Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic...
- 1990 (1) Nikkei CupNikkei CupThe Nikkei Cup was a golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour from at least 1985 to 1998. It was played at a variety of courses in Japan.-Winners:this list may be incompleteNikkei Cup Torakichi Nakamura Memorial*1998 Mitsutaka Kusakabe...
- 1991 (1) Japan PGA Match-Play ChampionshipJapan PGA Match-Play Championship-Winners:Japan PGA Match-Play Championship*2003 Todd HamiltonJapan PGA Match-Play Championship Promise Cup*2002 Nobuhito Sato*2001 Dean Wilson*2000 Kaname Yokoo*1999 Mamo Osanai*1998 Katsunori Kuwabara*1997 Shigeki Maruyama*1996 Nobuo Serizawa...
- 1995 (4) Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup, Tsuruya OpenTsuruya OpenThe is a golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It has been played annually since 1994. The tournament's to-par record is -17 set by Katsumasa Miyamoto in 1998. The aggregate record is 268 set by Brendan Jones in 2007. The course measures 6,770 yards and the par is 71...
, Gene Sarazen Jun Classic, Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters