Shigeki Maruyama (丸山茂樹, ''Maruyama Shigeki''; born 12 September 1969) is a Japanese
professional golfer
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.
Early life
Maruyama was born in
Ichikawa, Japan, near
Tokyo
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. He attended
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. The university's name is derived from the Ja ...
.
Professional career
In 1992, he turned professional. He is known for his ever-present smile on the golf course which has given rise to his nickname of the "Smiling Assassin." He began his career on the
Japan Golf Tour
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, quickly becoming one of the leading players on that tour. Two excellent finishes in
World Golf Championships
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events in 1999 helped to earn him membership of the U.S.-based
PGA Tour
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for the 2000 season. He has three PGA Tour victories. At the end of the 2008 season he announced he was returning to Japan after failing to maintain full playing rights on the PGA Tour.
Maruyama was a member of The International Team in the
Presidents Cup
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in 1998 and 2000. He had a 5–0–0 win–loss–tie record in the 1998 matches.
He has featured in the top 20 of the
Official World Golf Ranking
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.
On 5 June 2000, he shot a first round 58 at Woodmont Country Club (South Course) in
Rockville, Maryland
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while qualifying for the 2000 U.S. Open. This round ties the score achieved by
Jim Furyk
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on the final round of the
Travelers Championship on 2016.
Amateur wins
*1990
Asian Games
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Professional wins (14)
PGA Tour wins (3)
PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
Japan Golf Tour wins (10)
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–0)
Other wins (1)
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2001 PGA – 2002 PGA)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)
Results in The Players Championship
CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Results in World Golf Championships
1Cancelled due to
9/11
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QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
Team appearances
Amateur
*
Eisenhower Trophy
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(representing Japan):
1990
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Professional
*
Presidents Cup
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(representing the International team):
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
(winners),
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
*
World Cup
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(representing Japan):
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
,
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
,
2002
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(winners),
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
,
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
*
Dynasty Cup (representing Japan): 2005
See also
*
List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins
References
External links
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Japanese male golfers
Japan Golf Tour golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Asian Games medalists in golf
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Golfers at the 1990 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Nihon University alumni
Sportspeople from Ichikawa, Chiba
Golfers from Chiba Prefecture
1969 births
Living people
Presidents Cup competitors for International
20th-century Japanese sportsmen