Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
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Tsuyoshi Yoneyama is a Japan
ese professional golf
er.
Yoneyama was born in Kanagawa Prefecture
.
Yoneyama has won three tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour
and featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings
. His most successful year was 1999 when he won three times and finished tied 15th in The Open Championship
.
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.
Yoneyama was born in Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...
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Yoneyama has won three 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 1999 when he won three times and finished tied 15th in 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...
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Japan Golf Tour wins (3)
- 1999 (3) Mitsubishi Motors Tournament, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Casio World OpenCasio World OpenThe is an annual event on the Japan Golf Tour. It is played in November and attracts some of the leading international golfers. It was founded in 1981...