Takashi Murakami (golfer)

Takashi Murakami
村上隆
Personal information
Born (1944-05-25) 25 May 1944 (age 80)
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
StatusProfessional
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins18
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour11
Other7
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT37: 1976
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
PGA of Japan Tour
money list winner		1975

Takashi Murakami (Japanese: 村上隆, born 25 May 1944) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Early life

Murakami was born in Shizuoka. He started playing golf at the age of 11.[1]

Professional career

He won 11 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and led the money list in 1975.

Murakami also had a decent amount of success outside of Japan. He recorded a number of runner-up finishes in the Australasian region. They were the 1968 West Australian Championship,[2] 1969 Australian PGA Championship,[3] and 1972 New Zealand PGA Championship.[4] He also had much success on the Asia Golf Circuit events in 1972. He won the Malaysian Open[5] and finished runner-up at the Singapore Open[6] and Hong Kong Open.[7] In the United States he finished in a tie for second at the PGA Tour's 1977 Hawaiian Open. He also played in the Masters Tournament in 1976 and 1977.

Professional wins (18)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (11)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 29 Jul 1973 All Japan Doubles
(with Japan Hideyo Sugimoto) 		−26 (100-101-61=262)
2 29 Apr 1974 Chunichi Crowns −8 (63-71-68-70=272) 6 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki
3 6 Oct 1974 Golf Digest Tournament −17 (66-67-70-68=271) 1 stroke Taiwan Kuo Chie-Hsiung
4 18 May 1975 Japan PGA Match-Play Championship 2 up Japan Namio Takasu
5 28 Sep 1975 Japan Open Golf Championship −10 (74-69-69-66=278) 3 strokes Japan Seiichi Kanai
6 19 Oct 1975 Japan PGA Championship −6 (69-68-70-75=282) Playoff Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto
7 16 Nov 1975 Japan PGA Championship −7 (70-72-71-70=283) 1 stroke Japan Seiichi Kanai, Japan Kosaku Shimada
8 4 Jul 1976 ANA Sapporo Open −3 (74-68-76-67=285) 3 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki
9 8 Aug 1976 Kanto Pro Championship −14 (67-66-70-67=270)
10 31 Oct 1976 Bridgestone Tournament −6 (71-75-69-67=282) Playoff Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan, Japan Masaji Kusakabe
11 23 Oct 1977 Golf Digest Tournament (2) −13 (70-66-67-72=275) 4 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (2–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 1974 Tokyo Charity Classic Japan Haruo Yasuda Lost to birdie on first extra hole
2 1975 Japan PGA Championship Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto Won three-hole aggregate playoff;
Murakami: −1 (4-4-3=11),
Yamamoto: E (4-4-4=12)
3 1976 Bridgestone Tournament Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan, Japan Masaji Kusakabe Won with par on third extra hole
Hsieh eliminated by par on second hole

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 12 Mar 1972 Malaysian Open −12 (69-66-71-70=276) 1 stroke United States Marty Bohen, New Zealand Walter Godfrey,
Thailand Sukree Onsham

Japanese circuit wins (6)

Team appearances

See also

References

  1. ^ "Takashi Murakami". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Townsend wins West Australian title". The Glasgow Herald. 21 October 1968. p. 5.
  3. ^ "Devlin eases up but wins PGA title easily". The Canberra Times. Vol. 44, no. 12464. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 November 1969. p. 14. Retrieved 1 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Japanese wins NZ golf title". The Canberra Times. Vol. 46, no. 13014. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 January 1972. p. 11. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Murakami tops". The Gazette (Montreal). 13 March 1972. p. 17 – via Google News Archive.
  6. ^ "It's Kono's title as Jumbo crashes". The Straits Times. 6 March 1972. p. 31.
  7. ^ "Godfrey Takes Hong Kong Open Under Pressure". The Canberra Times. 3 April 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 8 January 2020.


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