Rikuya Hoshino (星野陸也, ''Hoshino Rikuya'', born 12 May 1996) is a Japanese

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. He has played full-time on the

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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

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. Since 2017, Hoshino has played on the main

. His first win came in September 2018 at the Fujisankei Classic 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 in June, a tournament reduced to 54 holes. A third-place finish in the Japan PGA Championship 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. Hoshino won the Fujisankei Classic 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