Dinesh Chand (born 6 February 1972) is a

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

an 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 wi ...

er who plays mainly on the

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. At the end of 2009, he lost his full playing rights for the Japan Golf Tour and so decided to play on the developmental

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in 2010. He won two events in a row which resulted in him regaining his full playing rights for the second half of the Japan Golf Tour season. He finished second at the 2010 Sun Chlorella Classic. Chand has three wins on the Japan Golf Tour, and two on the Japan Challenge Tour.

Professional wins (6)

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)

Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

Other wins (1)

*2008 Hirao Masaaki Charity Golf

Results in major championships

''Note: Chand only played in The Open Championship.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances

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(representing Fiji):

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