Tsukasa Watanabe ( ja, 渡辺司, born 16 February 1957) is a Japanese 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. Watanabe was born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

. He played 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 ...

, winning twice, and earned over 750,000,000 ¥. 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 minus Europe. Europe competes against the United States in a similar but considerably ...

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, 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 Professional Golfers' Association of Ja ...

*2013 Japan PGA Senior Championship *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 of ...

(representing Japan): 1991 *

(International Team):

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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 Championshi ...

(representing Japan):

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References

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* * Japanese male golfers Japan Golf Tour golfers Golfers from Tokyo 1957 births Living people {{Japan-golf-bio-stub