Satoshi Higashi (born 16 November 1960) is a Japanese professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

er.

Career

Higashi won seven tournaments on the

Japan Golf Tour The Japan Golf Tour ( ja, 日本ゴルフツアー機構) is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third-highest annual prize fund out of the regular (that is not for seniors) men's professional tours after ...

and featured in the top 100 of the

Official World Golf Rankings The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986. The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...

. His most successful year was 1995 when he won four times and finished second on the Japan Golf Tour's money list, also gaining his highest World Ranking of 75th in the same year.

Professional wins (12)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (7)

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (2)

*1986 Acom Team Championship (with

Hajime Meshiai is a Japanese professional golfer. Meshiai was born in Chiba. He turned professional in 1978. He won 11 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and led the money list in 1993. He is 14th on the career money list (through 2013). Professional win ...

) *1994 Meikyukai Charity Golf Tournament

Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (1)

*2013 ISPS Handa Cup - Philanthropy Senior Tournament

Other senior wins (2)

*2012 Asahi Ryokuken Cup TVQ Senior Open *2015 Trust Park Cup Sasebo Senior Open

Team appearances

Dunhill Cup The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championsh ...

(representing Japan):

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...

(representing Japan):

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the ...

References

External links

*
Satoshi Higashi
at the PGA of Japan official website * Japanese male golfers Japan Golf Tour golfers Golfers from Tokyo 1960 births Living people 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-golf-bio-stub