Rikuya Hoshino (星野陸也, ''Hoshino Rikuya'', born 12 May 1996) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played full-time 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 th ...

since 2017 and has won six times on the tour.

Professional career

Hoshino turned professional in August 2016. In early 2017, he won the Novil Cup on the Japan Challenge Tour. Since 2017, Hoshino has played on the main

. His first win came in September 2018 at the

Fujisankei Classic The is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was first played in 1973 at the Takasaka Country Club (Yoneyama Course). The tournament moved to the Higashi-Matsuyama Golf Club in 1979 and to the Kawana Hotel's Fuji course in 198 ...

which he won by 5 strokes. With eight more top-10 finishes he finished 2018 as the 6th highest money winner on the tour. Hoshino qualified for the 2018 U.S. Open, his first major, where he missed the cut. In May 2019, Hoshino lost in a playoff for the Kansai Open Golf Championship before winning his second Japan Golf Tour event at the

Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open The Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It had always been played at the Grandee Nasushirakawa Golf Club in Nishigō, Fukushima 270px, Kashi Onsen is a village located in Fukushima Prefectu ...

in June, a tournament reduced to 54 holes. A third-place finish in the

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the following week lifted him into the top-100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Later in 2019, he finished runner-up in the

RIZAP KBC Augusta The KBC Augusta is a professional golf tournament that is held in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The title sponsor is the Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting and it is held in August. Since its foundation in 1973, it has been an event on the Japan Golf Tour. S ...

. Hoshino won the

for the second time in 2020, beating Mikumu Horikawa at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Professional wins (7)

Japan Golf Tour wins (6)

''*Note: The 2019 Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.'' Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–2)

Japan Challenge Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

''Results not in chronological order before 2019 and in 2020.'' CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament due to

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoshino, Rikuya Japanese male golfers Japan Golf Tour golfers Olympic golfers of Japan Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Ibaraki Prefecture 1996 births Living people 21st-century Japanese people