is a Japanese

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with over a dozen wins on the

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Career

Narita was born in

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. As an amateur, she won the Kanto Junior Golf and East Japan Women's Public Amateur, and dropped out of

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to play golf professionally on the

. She saw immediate success, winning the 2012

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and the 2012 Rookie of the Year Award. By 2014, after she won her first JLPGA Major, the

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, she featured in the top-50 on the

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. Narita finished 5th on the JLPGA money list in 2014 and 2018, earning her starts at the

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and

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. She made her first JLPGA hole-in-one at the third round of 2016 Nipponham Ladies Classic. By 2019, she became one of 30 golfers with JLPGA career earnings in excess of half a billion

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. She represented Japan at the

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and on the winning The Queens teams in 2015 and 2017. In 2018, she was awarded the JLPGA Shiseido Anessa Beauty of the Year.

Professional wins (13)

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (13)

Tournaments in bold denotes major tournaments in LPGA of Japan Tour.

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order before 2019.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

Summary

* Most consecutive cuts made – 1 (three times) * Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Team appearances

* The Queens (representing Japan): 2015 (winners), 2017 (winners) *

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(representing Japan):

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Hitachi 3Tours Championship The is an unofficial golf event held every December at the Glissando Golf Club Narita, Chiba, Japan. The tournament is a unique stroke play event, and, as the name suggests, pits teams from the Japan Golf Tour, the LPGA of Japan Tour, and PGA Se ...

(representing LPGA of Japan Tour): 2014 (winners)

References

External links

* * Japanese female golfers LPGA of Japan Tour golfers Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture 1992 births Living people 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-golf-bio-stub