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Nationality
  
Japan

The Open Championship
  
T32: 1996

Height
  
1.66 m

Japan golf tour
  
10

U.S. Open
  
T15: 2003

Role
  
Golfer

Former tours
  
PGA TOUR


Masters Tournament
  
DNP

Name
  
Hidemichi Tanaka

Current tours
  
Turned professional
  
1991

PGA Championship
  
T55: 2004

Weight
  
62 kg

Professional wins
  
15

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Born
  
29 March 1971 (age 53) Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan (
1971-03-29
)

Hidemichi Tanaka (田中秀道, born 29 March 1971) is a Japanese professional golfer.

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Tanaka was born in Hiroshima Prefecture. He turned professional in 1991, joined the Japan Golf Tour in 1995 and played mainly on that tour until 2001. He won 10 times on tour.

Tanaka earned a PGA Tour card for 2002 at the 2001 Qualifying School, and held his card through 2006 by finishing in the top 125 on the money list each year. In 2006, he lost his card by finishing 224th on the money list. His best finishes on the PGA Tour are two T-3, at the 2004 B.C. Open and the 2005 Chrysler Championship.

Japan Golf Tour wins (10)

  • 1995 (1) Philip Morris Championship
  • 1996 (1) Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
  • 1998 (3) Aiful Cup, Japan Open, DDI Group Okinawa Open
  • 1999 (1) Acom International
  • 2000 (2) Dydo Drinco Shizuoka Open, The Crowns
  • 2001 (2) Tsuruya Open, Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open
  • Other wins

  • 1995 Mito Green Open (Japan), Korakuen Cup No. 2 (Japan)
  • 1996 Hirao Masaaki Pro-Am (Japan)
  • 1998 Hirao Masaaki Pro-Am (Japan)
  • 2001 Hawaii Pearl Open
  • Results in major championships

    Note: Tanaka never played in the Masters Tournament
    DNP = Did not play
    CUT = missed the half-way cut
    "T" = tied

    Team appearances

  • World Cup (representing Japan): 2000, 2003, 2004
  • References

    Hidemichi Tanaka Wikipedia


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