MATSUYAMA Hideki

The Open Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
14	Individual Stroke Play	2017	Southport, GBR	278
80	Individual Stroke Play	2018	Sandwich, GBR	146
87	Individual Stroke Play	2019	Portrush, GBR	145

The U.S. Open

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	Individual Stroke Play	2017	Erin, WI, USA	276
16	Individual Stroke Play	2018	Southampton, NY, USA	290
17	Individual Stroke Play	2020	Mamaroneck, NY, USA	288
21	Individual Stroke Play	2019	Pebble Beach, CA, USA	282
26	Individual Stroke Play	2021	San Diego, CA, USA	287

The Masters Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Individual Stroke Play	2021	Augusta, GA, USA	278
11	Individual Stroke Play	2017	Augusta, GA, USA	287
13	Individual Stroke Play	2020	Augusta, GA, USA	280
19	Individual Stroke Play	2018	Augusta, GA, USA	285
32	Individual Stroke Play	2019	Augusta, GA, USA	285

The PGA Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
5	Individual Stroke Play	2017	Charlotte, NC, USA	279
16	Individual Stroke Play	2019	Bethpage, NY, USA	283
22	Individual Stroke Play	2020	San Francisco, CA, USA	276
23	Individual Stroke Play	2021	Kiawah Island, SC, USA	289
35	Individual Stroke Play	2018	St. Louis, MO, USA	276

PGA Tour overview - Three best ranks per season since 2017

Year	Individual Stroke Play
2020/2021	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 13th
2019/2020	1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
2018/2019	2 x 3rd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 7th
2017/2018	3 x 4th, 1 x 5th, 1 x 11th
2016/2017	2 x 1st, 3 x 2nd, 1 x 5th

European Tour overview - Three best ranks per season since 2017

Year	Individual Stroke Play
2019	1 x 11th, 1 x 87th
2018	1 x 30th, 1 x 80th, 1 x 83rd
2017	2 x 14th, 1 x 50th

PGA Tour & European Tour - Ten best performances since 2017 season

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020/2021	Individual Stroke Play	The Masters Championships	Augusta, GA, USA
1	2016/2017	Individual Stroke Play	WGC - FedEx St. Jude Invitational	Akron, OH, USA
1	2016/2017	Individual Stroke Play	Waste Management Phoenix Open	Scottsdale, AZ, USA
2	2020/2021	Individual Stroke Play	Vivint Houston Open	Houston, TX, USA
2	2019/2020	Individual Stroke Play	Zozo Championship	Narashino, JPN
2	2016/2017	Individual Stroke Play	The U.S. Open	Erin, WI, USA
2	2016/2017	Individual Stroke Play	Sentry Tournament of Champions	Kapalua, HI, USA
2	2016/2017	Individual Stroke Play	CIMB Classic	Kuala Lumpur, MAS
3	2019/2020	Individual Stroke Play	BMW Championship	Olympia Fields, IL, USA
3	2019/2020	Individual Stroke Play	The CJ Cup	Seogwipo, KOR
3	2018/2019	Individual Stroke Play	BMW Championship	Medinah, IL, USA
3	2018/2019	Individual Stroke Play	Farmers Insurance Open	San Diego, CA, USA

ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
6	Men's Team	2016	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	-14

Legend
DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, WD - Withdrawn

Watching baseball, playing table tennis, fishing. (olympics.com, 12 Apr 2021)

Health and Welfare Studies - Tohoku Fukushi University, Miyagi, JPN

Wife Mei, daughter Kanna [2017]

Japanese

Right (sportsnavi.ht.kyodo-d.jp, 01 Feb 2016)

Turned professional in 2013

He injured his left thumb basal joint at the 2018 Waste Management Phoenix Open in the United States of America. He withdrew before the second round and the injury kept him out of action for six weeks. In March 2021 he was troubled by a similar injury at the 2021 Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill, FL, United States of America. (golfchannel.com, 29 Jan 2019; nishinippon.co.jp, 23 Feb 2018; news.golfdigest.co.jp, 06 Mar 2021; chunichi.co.jp, 06 Mar 2021)

He sustained a back injury in 2015. (pgatour.com, 17 Dec 2015)

He suffered a joint inflammation in his left thumb in 2013. (number.bunshun.jp, 17 Jan 2014)

He began playing golf at age four. (JGA, 13 Aug 2010)

His father enjoyed golf and encouraged him to try the sport. (JGA, 13 Aug 2010; dailyshincho.jp, 13 Apr 2021)

US golfer Tiger Woods. (pgatour.com, 13 Jan 2015)

"Don't think too much while playing." (par-golf.com, 09 Nov 2009)

In 2021 he was presented with the Prime Minister's Award in Japan. (tfu.ac.jp, 12 Apr 2021; fnn.jp, 27 Apr 2021)

In 2012 he was named Best Amateur by the Japan Golf Association [JGA]. (dunlopsports.co.jp, 01 Jul 2013)

In 2011 he was given a Special Prize by the Golf Tournament Promotion Association of Japan. (dunlopsports.co.jp, 01 Jul 2013)

In 2011 he received a Special Prize from the JGA. (dunlopsports.co.jp, 01 Jul 2013)

A driving range in Matsuyama, Japan, where he practised in his childhood, was renamed 'Hideki Golf Garden' in his honour. (hideki-golf.jp, 2021; asahi.com, 13 Apr2021; sanspo.com, 12 Apr 2021)