Tōru Nakamura (golfer)

Tōru Nakamura
中村 通
Personal information
Born (1950-10-31) 31 October 1950 (age 74)
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional1968
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins28
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour20 (Tied 9th all time)
Other8
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 1980
PGA ChampionshipT59: 1980
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipT20: 1982

Tōru Nakamura (中村 通, Nakamura Tōru, born 31 October 1950) is a Japanese golfer.

Nakamura was born in Osaka. He won 20 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and ranks eighth on the career victories list.

Professional wins (28)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (20)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 2 Sep 1973 Hiroshima Open −19 (67-64-68-70=269) 1 stroke Iraneo Legaspi
2 16 Jun 1974 Sapporo Tokyu Open −10 (71-67-71-69=278) 2 strokes Graham Marsh
3 25 Aug 1974 KBC Augusta −15 (67-65-70-71=273) 1 stroke Teruo Sugihara
4 24 Nov 1975 ABC Japan vs USA Golf Matches −15 (67-67-71-68=273) 7 strokes Al Geiberger
5 7 May 1978 Wizard Tournament −2 (73-70-71=214) 1 stroke Kikuo Arai, Yoshitaka Yamamoto
6 11 Jun 1978 Mitsubishi Galant Tournament −8 (72-68-69-71=280) 1 stroke Hsu Sheng-san, Norio Suzuki
7 3 Jun 1979 Mitsubishi Galant Tournament (2) −3 (74-72-71-68=285) 1 stroke Yoshio Kusayanagi
8 10 Jun 1979 Tohoku Classic −10 (73-67-69-69=278) Playoff Hsieh Min-Nan
9 1 Jul 1979 Kansai Pro Championship −15 (69-66-68-70=273) 4 strokes Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Shigeru Uchida
10 18 Apr 1982 Bridgestone Aso Open −5 (74-72-68-69=283) 3 strokes Shigeru Uchida
11 13 May 1984 Japan PGA Match-Play Championship 4 and 3 Kouichi Inoue
12 12 Aug 1984 JPGA East-West Tournament −10 (67-65=132)
13 2 Sep 1984 Kansai Open Golf Championship −7 (70-75-67-69=281) 2 strokes Yoshitaka Yamamoto
14 2 Dec 1984 Golf Nippon Series −23 (66-66-67-68=267) 7 strokes Masahiro Kuramoto
15 9 Nov 1986 Hiroshima Open (2) −16 (68-68-71-65=272) Playoff Saburo Fujiki
16 7 Dec 1986 Golf Nippon Series (2) −15 (70-70-66-69=275) 2 strokes Isao Aoki
17 25 Sep 1988 Gene Sarazen Jun Classic −12 (68-68-69-35=240)* 4 strokes Nobuo Serizawa
18 11 Mar 1990 Imperial Open −3 (69-72-73-71=285) Playoff Hideto Shigenobu
19 9 Sep 1990 Suntory Open −17 (65-65-69-72=271) 1 stroke Graham Marsh
20 28 Jun 1992 Mizuno Open −6 (70-72-72-68=282) 1 stroke Saburo Fujiki, Brian Jones

*Note: The 1988 Gene Sarazen Jun Classic was shortened to 63 holes due to rain.

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (3–5)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 1975 Hiroshima Open Lu Liang-Huan, Kosaku Shimada Lu won two-hole aggregate playoff;
Lu: E (3-4=7),
Nakamura: +2 (5-4=9),
Shimada: +2 (4-5=9)
2 1979 Tohoku Classic Hsieh Min-Nan Won with birdie on second extra hole
3 1981 Mitsubishi Galant Tournament Lu Hsi-chuen, Teruo Sugihara Lu won with birdie on first extra hole
4 1981 Tokai Classic Fujio Kobayashi, Masahiro Kuramoto,
Hideto Shigenobu 		Kuramoto won with par on first extra hole
5 1983 Yomiuri Open Graham Marsh Lost to birdie on third extra hole
6 1986 Hiroshima Open Saburo Fujiki Won with par on fourth extra hole
7 1990 Imperial Open Hideto Shigenobu Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
8 1994 Dydo Shizuoka Open Tsuneyuki Nakajima Lost to par on first extra hole

Other wins (8)

Team appearances

See also


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