Yuta Ikeda

Yuta Ikeda
Ikeda at the 2010 PGA Championship
Personal information
Born (1985-12-22) 22 December 1985 (age 39)
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
CollegeTohoku Fukushi University
Turned professional2008
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins24
Highest ranking33 (29 November 2009)[1]
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour21 (8th all-time)
Asian Tour2
Other3
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament29th: 2010
PGA ChampionshipT33: 2016
U.S. OpenT58: 2010
The Open ChampionshipT38: 2011
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour
Rookie of the Year		2009
Japan Golf Tour
money list winner		2016
Japan Golf Tour
Most Valuable Player		2016
Medal record
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Bangkok Men's team

Yuta Ikeda (Japanese: 池田勇太; born 22 December 1985) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Professional career

Ikeda has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2008. Since his maiden victory in 2009, he has won a minimum of one tournament per season through 2017 and has a total of 21 victories.

Ikeda has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking twice. In late 2009 he reached a high of 33rd. In late 2016/early 2017 he was again 33rd in the rankings.

Amateur wins

Professional wins (24)

Japan Golf Tour wins (21)

Legend
Flagship events (2)
Japan majors (3)[a]
Other Japan Golf Tour (18)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 14 Jun 2009 Japan PGA Championship −14 (65-67-69-65=266) 7 strokes Japan Mitsuhiro Tateyama
2 30 Aug 2009 Vana H Cup KBC Augusta −21 (69-66-69-63=267) Playoff Japan Yasuharu Imano
3 11 Oct 2009 Canon Open −16 (64-72-64=200)* 4 strokes Japan Tomohiro Kondo, United States Han Lee
4 25 Oct 2009 Bridgestone Open −16 (67-67-71-65=270) 2 strokes Japan Kenichi Kuboya
5 19 Jul 2010 Toshin Golf Tournament −17 (68-66-64-73=271) 3 strokes Japan Shunsuke Sonoda
6 22 Sep 2010 ANA Open −14 (70-71-66-67=274) 1 stroke South Korea Kim Do-hoon, United States Jay Choi
7 24 Oct 2010 Bridgestone Open (2) −23 (67-71-65-62=265) 3 strokes Japan Michio Matsumura
8 21 Nov 2010 Dunlop Phoenix Tournament −15 (67-66-70-66=269) 2 strokes South Korea Kim Kyung-tae
9 31 Jul 2011 Sun Chlorella Classic −14 (66-72-64-72=274) 1 stroke Japan Tetsuji Hiratsuka
10 7 Oct 2012 Canon Open (2) −17 (66-68-68-69=271) 3 strokes Japan Taichi Teshima
11 3 Nov 2013 Mynavi ABC Championship −15 (63-69-70-67=269) Playoff South Korea Hur Suk-ho
12 19 Oct 2014 Japan Open Golf Championship −10 (64-68-66-72=270) 1 stroke Japan Shingo Katayama, Japan Satoshi Kodaira
13 30 Aug 2015 RIZAP KBC Augusta (2) −20 (66-65-71-66=268) 5 strokes Japan Koumei Oda
14 24 Apr 2016 Panasonic Open Golf Championship1 −13 (67-73-66-65=271) 3 strokes Australia Marcus Fraser, South Korea Kim Kyung-tae
15 9 Oct 2016 Honma TourWorld Cup −14 (68-67-69-66=270) Playoff South Korea Song Young-han
16 27 Nov 2016 Casio World Open −13 (72-64-67=203)* 1 stroke Japan Ryuji Masaoka
17 27 Aug 2017 RIZAP KBC Augusta (3) −18 (69-67-67-67=270) 3 strokes Japan Kunihiro Kamii
18 17 Sep 2017 ANA Open (2) −13 (70-69-65-71=275) Playoff Japan Shugo Imahira, Japan Ryuko Tokimatsu
19 15 Oct 2017 Japan Open Golf Championship (2) −8 (67-66-67-72=272) 1 stroke Japan Takumi Kanaya (a)
20 23 Sep 2018 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf1 −15 (69-66-66-68=269) 6 strokes South Africa Justin Harding
21 2 Jun 2019 Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open −7 (70-74-66-71=281) 1 stroke United States Chan Kim

*Note: Tournament shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (4–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2009 Vana H Cup KBC Augusta Japan Yasuharu Imano Won with birdie on second extra hole
2 2012 Toshin Golf Tournament China Wu Ashun Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole
3 2013 Mynavi ABC Championship South Korea Hur Suk-ho Won with par on first extra hole
4 2016 Honma TourWorld Cup South Korea Song Young-han Won with birdie on first extra hole
5 2016 Heiwa PGM Championship Japan Hideto Tanihara Lost to birdie on first extra hole
6 2017 ANA Open Japan Shugo Imahira, Japan Ryuko Tokimatsu Won with birdie on first extra hole

Japan Challenge Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 10 Jul 2008 Everlife Cup Challenge Tournament −9 (65-68=133) 3 strokes Japan Norihiko Furusho, Japan Taigen Tsumagari

Other wins (2)

  • 2012 Legend Charity Pro-Am
  • 2013 Legend Charity Pro-Am

Results in major championships

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Masters Tournament 29 CUT CUT CUT
U.S. Open T58 CUT CUT
The Open Championship CUT CUT T38 CUT T72 CUT T51
PGA Championship CUT T45 T33 CUT T65
Tournament 2019
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 8
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (four times)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Results in World Golf Championships

Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Championship T22 T55 T61 T46
Match Play R64 R64 T51 T29
Invitational T69 75
Champions T51 T30 T29 T72 T64
  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The 2014 and 2017 Japan Open Golf Championships were also Japan major championships.

References

  1. ^ "Week 48 2009 Ending 29 Nov 2009" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 5 October 2019.


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