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Nationality
  
Japan

The Open Championship
  
T22: 2002

Height
  
1.69 m

Professional wins
  
17

U.S. Open
  
T44: 2001

Role
  
Golfer

Japan golf tour
  
16

Masters Tournament
  
T4: 2001

Name
  
Toshimitsu Izawa

Current tours
  
Japan Golf Tour

Turned professional
  
1989

PGA Championship
  
T18: 2003

Weight
  
68 kg


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Born
  
2 March 1968 (age 56) Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan (
1968-03-02
)

College
  
Nippon Sport Science University

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Toshimitsu Izawa (Japanese: 伊沢利光, born 2 March 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer. He is sometimes known outside Japan as Toshi Izawa.

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Izawa was born in Kanagawa, attended Nihon Taiiku University, and turned professional in 1989.

Izawa's career on the Japan Golf Tour developed quite slowly. His first win came in 1995, and he did not make the top ten on the money list until 1999, when he was thirty one years old. He went on to top the money list in 2001 and 2003. In the first of those years he set a record of ¥217,934,583 in earnings which survived though the 2004 season, and his dominant form in Japan lifted him into the top twenty in the Official World Golf Ranking. He has 16 victories on the Japan Golf Tour and is eighth on the career money list (through 2013).

Izawa has only played a limited number of tournaments outside Japan, but in 2001 he finished tied fourth at the Masters Tournament, which is one of golf's four major championships, and tied for second at the PGA Tour's Nissan Open. In 2002, he won the WGC-World Cup for Japan in partnership with Shigeki Maruyama.

Japan Golf Tour wins (16)

  • 1995 (1) Japan Open
  • 1998 (1) Tokai Classic
  • 1999 (2) Aiful Cup, NST Niigata Open Golf Championship
  • 2000 (3) JGTO TPC iiyama Cup, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters
  • 2001 (5) Diamond Cup Tournament, Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, Georgia Tokai Classic, Bridgestone Open, Philip Morris K.K. Championship
  • 2003 (2) Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishidohills Cup, Woodone Open Hiroshima
  • 2005 (1) Under Armour KBC Augusta
  • 2007 (1) Japan PGA Championship
  • Other wins

    this list is probably incomplete

  • 2002 WGC-World Cup (with Shigeki Maruyama)
  • Results in major championships

    DNP = Did not play
    CUT = missed the half-way cut
    WD = withdrew
    "T" = tied
    Yellow background for top-10.

    Team appearances

  • World Cup (representing Japan): 2001, 2002 (winners)
  • References

    Toshimitsu Izawa Wikipedia