The first tournament of 2025 goes to Hideki Matsuyama. The Japanese, bronze medalist at the Paris Games, won The Sentry in Hawaii with a total of 257 (65 65 62 65, -35) shots. In the PGA Tour event, reserved for the 2024 winners and the top 50 of the FedEx Cup, he overcame the American Collin Morikawa, 2nd with 260 (-32) ahead of the South Korean Sungjae Im, 3rd with 263 (-29). In Kapalua, in the county of Maui, the Japanese celebrated his eleventh feat (a figure including a Major, The Masters 2021) on the top US men’s circuit. The exploit earned him $3,600,000 out of a total prize pool of $20,000,000 and allowed him to climb to first place in the FedEx Cup and fifth in the world rankings.
Matsuyama, results
A record-breaking success. In his 265th competition on tour, and at the age of 32 years, 10 months and 11 days, Matsuyama set, at the Plantation Course (par 73), not only the lowest score of the competition but also the best score ever for a PGA Tour event over a distance of 72 holes. An error on the 7th hole (par 4), in the fourth round, interrupted a streak of 47 consecutive holes without a bogey. “I’m really happy, I didn’t give up even for a second and now I’m enjoying this exploit. The last putt also allowed me to set a record that I care a lot about”, Matsuyama’s satisfaction. For the Japanese, it is the third success, in the last 11 months, on the circuit.
Born in the city of Matsuyama, he began playing golf at the age of four under the guidance of his father. He completed his education at Tōhoku Fukushi University in Sendai, winning the 2010 and 2011 Asian Amateur Golf Championships.
This result qualified him by right to the 2011 Masters (the first Japanese amateur to do so), where he won the Silver Cup and was the only amateur golfer in the competition. The following week he placed third at the Japan Open Golf Championship, one of the stops on the Japan Golf Tour.
In 2011 he represented Japan at the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade, where he won gold in both the individual and team events – together with Fujimoto, Kobukuro and Tomimura. After defending the title at the Asian Amateur Championships, he won the Taiheiyo Masters, another stop on the Japan Golf Tour, in November.[8] His success at the amateur level earned him the No. 1 position in the world amateur ranking in August 2012.
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