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Toru Taniguchi

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Nationality
  
Japan

The Open Championship
  
T37: 2001

Height
  
1.69 m

Professional wins
  
19

U.S. Open
  
T63: 2010

Role
  
Golfer

Japan golf tour
  
19


Name
  
Toru Taniguchi

Current tours
  
Japan Golf Tour

Residence
  
Nara Prefecture, Japan

PGA Championship
  
T68: 2012

Weight
  
73 kg

Turned professional
  
1992

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Born
  
10 February 1968 (age 56) Nara Prefecture, Japan (
1968-02-10
)

Masters Tournament
  
CUT: 2002, 2003, 2008

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Toru Taniguchi (谷口 徹, Taniguchi Tōru, born 10 February 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer.

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Taniguchi was born in Nara. He has won 19 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour (ranking 10th on the most career victories list), topped the money list in 2002 and 2007, and is fifth on the career money list (through 2009). In 2001, he reached the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

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He has featured in the top 30 of the Official World Golf Ranking and was the highest ranked Japanese golfer from 2007 to 2008.

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Results in major championships

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

Summary

  • Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (2010 U.S. Open – 2010 Open)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 0
  • World Golf Championships

    1Cancelled due to September 11, 2001 attacks
    DNP = Did not play
    QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
    "T" = tied
    NT = No Tournament
    Yellow background for top-10.
    Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

    Team appearances

  • Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2007, 2009 (winners)
  • World Cup (representing Japan): 2008
  • References

    Toru Taniguchi Wikipedia