Masahiro Kuramoto

Masahiro "Massy" Kuramoto (倉本昌弘, Kuramoto Masahiro, born 9 September 1955) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Masahiro Kuramoto
倉本昌弘
Personal information
NicknameMassy
Born (1955-09-09) 9 September 1955
Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st)
Nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional1981
Current tour(s)European Senior Tour
Japan PGA Senior Tour
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
PGA Tour
Champions Tour
Professional wins41
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour30 (6th all time)
European Senior Tour2
Other9
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT42: 1982
U.S. OpenCUT: 1993, 1994
The Open ChampionshipT4: 1982

Kuramoto was born in Hiroshima Prefecture. He turned professional in 1981. He has won 30 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking fifth on the career list. He ranks seventh on the career money list with earnings of just over 1 billion ¥.

Kuramoto was medalist at the 1992 PGA Tour qualifying school and played full-time on the Tour in 1993. He played 65 times on the PGA Tour from 1978 to 1997. His best finish was a T-4 at the 1982 British Open (also his best finish in a major championship).

In 2005, he was medalist at the Champions Tour qualifying school, and he began play on that tour in 2006. His best finish is a fourth-place finish in the 2006 Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.

Amateur wins

  • 1975 Japan Amateur Championship
  • 1977 Japan Amateur Championship
  • 1980 Japan Amateur Championship

Professional wins (41)

Japan Golf Tour wins (30)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 28 Sep 1980 Chushikoku Open
(as an amateur)
−7 (69-70-68-74=281)
2 16 Aug 1981 Nihon Kokudo Keikaku Summers −8 (65-72-72-71=280) 5 strokes Saburo Fujiki, Keiichi Hoshino
3 5 Sep 1981 Chushikoku Open −3 (70-76-67=213)
4 20 Sep 1981 ANA Sapporo Open −6 (67-73-69-73=282) 3 strokes Kikuo Arai
5 11 Oct 1981 Tokai Classic −7 (68-71-70=209)* Playoff Fujio Kobayashi, Tōru Nakamura,
Hideto Shigenobu
6 25 Jul 1982 Japan PGA Championship −14 (67-69-69-69=274) 4 strokes Hsieh Min-Nan
7 4 Sep 1982 Chushikoku Open (2) −10 (67-70-73-68=278)
8 3 Sep 1983 Chushikoku Open (3) −16 (70-66-70-66=272)
9 9 Oct 1983 Tokai Classic (2) −12 (64-69-72-71=276) 2 strokes Naomichi Ozaki
10 2 Sep 1983 Chushikoku Open (4) +5 (68-73-72-76=289) Playoff Hideto Shigenobu
11 21 Oct 1984 Bridgestone Tournament −9 (67-74-67-71=279) Playoff Chen Tze-chung, Yoshihisa Iwashita,
Sam Torrance
12 29 Sep 1985 Jun Classic −7 (66-72-71=209)* Shared title with Kazushige Kono and Payne Stewart
13 27 Oct 1985 Bridgestone Open (2) −15 (71-67-68-67=273) 1 stroke Isao Aoki
14 21 Sep 1986 ANA Open (2) −7 (73-72-66-70=281) 2 strokes Isao Aoki
15 5 Oct 1986 Tokai Classic (3) −17 (68-69-65-69=271) 9 strokes Shinsaku Maeda
16 23 Aug 1987 Maruman Open −24 (64-62-67-71=264) 4 strokes Masashi Ozaki
17 6 Sep 1987 Chushikoku Open (5) −8 (71-70-70-69=280) 5 strokes Tadami Ueno
18 5 Jun 1988 Sendai Classic −9 (67-67-70=204)* 2 strokes Futoshi Irino
19 19 Jun 1988 Yomiuri Open −11 (68-66-74-69=277) 4 strokes Ian Baker-Finch, Tsukasa Watanabe,
Yoshikazu Yokoshima
20 3 Jul 1988 Kansai Pro Championship −12 (71-69-68-68=276) 1 stroke Yurio Akitomi, Norio Mikami
21 28 Aug 1988 KBC Augusta −12 (67-71-65-73=276) 2 strokes Hajime Meshiai, Masashi Ozaki,
Nobumitsu Yuhara
22 4 Sep 1988 Chushikoku Open (6) −22 (67-63-65-71=266) 13 strokes Tadami Ueno
23 25 Mar 1990 Seto Uthumi Open +7 (75-67-78-75=295) 1 stroke Ryoken Kawagishi, Noboru Sugai
24 10 Nov 1991 Acom International 32 pts (7-7-18=32)* 10 points Brent Franklin, Tōru Nakamura,
Yoshi Mizumaki
25 17 May 1992 Japan PGA Championship (2) −7 (68-71-71-71=281) Playoff Tsuneyuki Nakajima
26 25 Oct 1992 Bridgestone Open (3) −17 (68-67-70-66=271) Playoff Tetsu Nishikawa
27 13 Dec 1992 Daikyo Open −13 (66-73-67-65=271) 4 strokes David Ishii
28 5 Jun 1994 JCB Classic Sendai (2) −13 (71-65-67-68=271) 2 strokes Roger Mackay, Toshiaki Sudo
29 10 Sep 1995 Suntory Open −15 (67-64-71-71=273) 3 strokes Takaaki Fukuzawa, Satoshi Higashi,
Nobuo Serizawa
30 28 Sep 2003 Acom International (2) −13 (59-69-70-73=271) Playoff Katsumasa Miyamoto, Masashi Ozaki

*Note: Tournament shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (6–4)

No.YearTournamentOpponent(s)Result
1 1981 Tokai Classic Fujio Kobayashi, Tōru Nakamura,
Hideto Shigenobu
Won with par on first extra hole
2 1983 Jun Classic Masashi Ozaki
3 1984 Chushikoku Open Hideto Shigenobu
4 1984 Bridgestone Tournament Chen Tze-chung, Yoshihisa Iwashita,
Sam Torrance
Won with eagle on first extra hole
5 1985 Bridgestone ASO Open Hsieh Min-Nan
6 1991 Sapporo Tokyu Open Rick Gibson, Shinsaku Maeda Gibson won with birdie on first extra hole
7 1992 Japan PGA Championship Tsuneyuki Nakajima Won with par on second extra hole
8 1992 Nikkei Cup Kiyoshi Murota Lost to birdie on first extra hole
9 1992 Bridgestone Open Tetsu Nishikawa Won with birdie on second extra hole
10 2003 Acom International Katsumasa Miyamoto, Masashi Ozaki Won with birdie on first extra hole

Other wins (2)

  • 1981 Wakayama Open, Hyogo-ken Open

European Senior Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 28 Nov 2010
(2011 season)
Handa Cup Senior Masters −17 (69-71-66-65=271) 4 strokes Satoshi Higashi, Frankie Miñoza,
Kiyoshi Murota
2 24 Jun 2012 Van Lanschot Senior Open E (75-72-69=216) 2 strokes Andrew Oldcorn

Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (7)

  • 2007 Big Raisac Senior Open
  • 2010 Japan Senior Open, Handa Cup Senior Masters
  • 2014 Japan Senior Open
  • 2015 Kyoshinkai Hiroshima Senior Championship
  • 2016 Iwasaki Shiratsuyu Senior Tournament
  • 2019 Starts Senior Golf Tournament

Results in major championships

Tournament 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
U.S. Open CUT CUT
The Open Championship CUT T4 T45 CUT T30 CUT CUT
PGA Championship T42 CUT CUT

Note: Kuramoto never played in the Masters Tournament.

  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1984 Open Championship)
"T" = tied

Team appearances

This list may be incomplete.

Amateur

Professional

See also

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