is a Japanese

professional golfer A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...

. Meshiai was born in Chiba. He turned professional in 1978. He won 11 tournaments on the

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and led the money list in 1993. He is 14th on the career money list (through 2013).

Professional wins (17)

Japan Golf Tour wins (11)

''*Note: Tournament shortened to 54 holes due to weather.''
¹Co-sanctioned by the Asia Golf Circuit Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–3)

Other wins (1)

*1986 Acom Team Championship (with Satoshi Higashi)

Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (5)

*2005 Kinojo Senior Open *2008 Starts Senior Golf Tournament, Akira Kobayashi Invitational Sanko Senior Golf Tournament *2009 Fujifilm Senior Championship *2016 Kanehide Senior Okinawa Open

Results in major championships

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

Team appearances

Kirin Cup The is an association football tournament organised in Japan by the Kirin Brewery Company. The host, Japan national football team, Japan, is a participant in every edition. The tournament was founded in 1978 then known as Japan Cup (Internatio ...

(representing Japan): 1987 * Dunhill Cup (representing Japan): 1988,

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

* Dynasty Cup (representing Japan): 2003

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* * * Japanese male golfers Japan Golf Tour golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers Komazawa University alumni Golfers from Chiba Prefecture 1954 births Living people 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-golf-bio-stub