Ayako Uehara (golfer)

Ayako Uehara (上原 彩子, Uehara Ayako, born 23 December 1983 in Naha, Okinawa) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Ayako Uehara
上原 彩子
Personal information
Born (1983-12-23) 23 December 1983
Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional2004
Current tour(s)LPGA of Japan Tour
LPGA Tour (joined 2013)
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
LPGA of Japan Tour3
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA Inspiration8th: 2018
Women's PGA C'shipT44: 2013
U.S. Women's OpenT20: 2015
Women's British OpenT17: 2013
Evian ChampionshipT10: 2017

Uehara started playing golf at age 12, turned professional in 2003, and made her way onto the LPGA Tour on her first attempt. Together with Ai Miyazato and Sakura Yokomine, she was a member of the Japanese team that won a silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games.[1]

In 2016, Uehara made two holes-in-one during the Canadian Pacific Women's Open, tying the LPGA record for most holes-in-one in a single tournament.[1] In November the same year, she set another record when she posted a score of 141 during round one of the Ito En Ladies Golf Tournament on the LPGA of Japan Tour. Uehara mistakenly applied the local rule of "lift, clean, and place" (common on the LPGA) when it should have been "lift, clean, and replace", earning her 68 penalties, two for each of the 19 violations and one for each of the 15 holes with an incorrect score on her scorecard.[2]

Uehara, in solo second place just one shot off of the lead, played in the final group at a major championship for the first time in her career at the 2017 Evian Championship.[3]

Professional wins (3)

LPGA of Japan Tour (3)

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2019.

Tournament20132014201520162017201820192020
ANA Inspiration T19 CUT T35 T56 T27 8 T26 CUT
U.S. Women's Open T36 CUT T20 CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship T44 T53 CUT CUT CUT T60 CUT
The Evian Championship T27 T32 T46 70 T10 CUT CUT NT
Women's British Open T17 T54 T63 CUT T21
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary
TournamentWins2nd3rdTop-5Top-10Top-25EventsCuts made
ANA Inspiration00001286
U.S. Women's Open00000152
Women's PGA Championship00000073
The Evian Championship00001175
Women's British Open00000254
Totals0000263220
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2013 Kraft Nabisco – 2013 Evian)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2017 Evian – 2018 ANA)

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

References
  1. "Ayako Uehara Bio". LPGA. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  2. "史上ワーストの「141」　上原彩子に前代未聞の68罰打" (in Japanese). Golf Digest Japan. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  3. "Feng In The Mix, New Ground for Uehara And More from Evian". LPGA. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
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