Toshimitsu Izawa
Professional golfer

Toshimitsu Izawa

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2 March 1968(Kamakura)
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Toshimitsu Izawa (Japanese: 伊沢利光, born 2 March 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer. He is sometimes known outside Japan as Toshi Izawa.
Izawa was born in Kanagawa, attended Nihon Taiiku University, and turned professional in 1989.
Izawa's career on the Japan Golf Tour developed quite slowly. His first win came in 1995, and he did not make the top ten on the money list until 1999, when he was thirty one years old. He went on to top the money list in 2001 and 2003. In the first of those years he set a record of ¥217,934,583 in earnings which survived though the 2004 season, and his dominant form in Japan lifted him into the top twenty in the Official World Golf Ranking. He has 16 victories on the Japan Golf Tour and is eighth on the career money list (through 2013).
Izawa has only played a limited number of tournaments outside Japan, but in 2001 he finished tied fourth at the Masters Tournament, which is one of golf's four major championships, and tied for second at the PGA Tour's Nissan Open. In 2002, he won the WGC-World Cup for Japan in partnership with Shigeki Maruyama.

Japan Golf Tour wins (16)

  • 1995 (1) Japan Open
  • 1998 (1) Tokai Classic
  • 1999 (2) Aiful Cup, NST Niigata Open Golf Championship
  • 2000 (3) JGTO TPC iiyama Cup, Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta, Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters
  • 2001 (5) Diamond Cup Tournament, Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, Georgia Tokai Classic, Bridgestone Open, Philip Morris K.K. Championship
  • 2003 (2) Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishidohills Cup, Woodone Open Hiroshima
  • 2005 (1) Under Armour KBC Augusta
  • 2007 (1) Japan PGA Championship

Other wins

this list is probably incomplete

  • 2002 WGC-World Cup (with Shigeki Maruyama)

Results in major championships

Tournament 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Masters Tournament DNP DNP T4 CUT CUT CUT DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP T44 WD DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP T22 DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
PGA Championship CUT T39 DNP T53 T18 DNP DNP DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

  • World Cup (representing Japan): 2001, 2002 (winners)