Tsukasa Watanabe (, born 16 February 1957) is a Japanese professional

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er.

Career

Watanabe was born in

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. He played on the

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, winning twice, and earned over 780,000,000 ¥. He played on the 1994 International Team in the

Presidents Cup The Presidents Cup is a series of men's golf matches between a team representing the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world except Europe as that continent competes against the United States in a similar but ...

Professional wins (8)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (2)

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (0–3)

Other wins (1)

*1993

Sanko Grand Summer Championship The Sanko Grand Summer Championship was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan during the 1990s. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour from 1995 to 1998. It was played in August at the Sanko 72 Country Club in Takasaki, Gunma Prefec ...

Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (5)

*2008

Japan PGA Senior Championship The Japan PGA Senior Championship is one of the major events on the Japan Senior Tour. It was first played in 1962. The 2007 prize money was ¥50,000,000. Winners ''this list is incomplete'' *2023 Thammanoon Sriroj *2022 Prayad Marksaeng *2021 ...

, Fujifilm Senior Championship *2009

Japan Senior Open The Japan Senior Open Golf Championship is one of the major championships in Japanese men's senior golf. It is administered by the Japan Golf Association (JGA) and is recognised as a major championship by the PGA of Japan Senior Tour. It was found ...

*2013

*2015 Fuji Film Senior Championship

Results in major championships

''Note: Watanabe only played in The Open Championship.''
"T" = tied

Team appearances

''This list may be incomplete.'' *

Four Tours World Championship The Four Tours World Championship was an annual professional golf tournament that was played from 1985 to 1991. It was played between teams representing the four main professional tours: the American PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the PGA Tour o ...

(representing Japan): 1991 *

(International Team):

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

Alfred 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):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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 ...

References

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* * Japanese male golfers Japan Golf Tour golfers Golfers from Tokyo 1957 births Living people Presidents Cup competitors for International 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-golf-bio-stub