Rikuya Hoshino

Rikuya Hoshino (born 12 May 1996) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 2017 and has won twice on the tour, in 2018 and 2019.

Rikuya Hoshino
Personal information
Born (1996-05-12) 12 May 1996
Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
Nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional2016
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Asian Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking94 (1 September 2019)[1]
(as of 31 January 2021)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour3
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenCUT: 2018
The Open ChampionshipDNP

Professional career

Hoshino turned professional in August 2016.[2] In early 2017, he won the Novil Cup on the Japan Challenge Tour.

Since 2017, Hoshino has played on the main Japan Golf Tour. 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.[3]

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.

Professional wins (4)

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 2 Sep 2018 Fujisankei Classic −16 (68-68-66-66=268) 5 strokes Shugo Imahira
2 30 Jun 2019 Dunlop Srixon Fukushima Open −20 (67-64-65=196) 2 strokes Shota Akiyoshi
3 6 Sep 2020 Fujisankei Classic (2) −9 (69-69-67-70=275) Playoff Mikumu Horikawa

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2019 Kansai Open Golf Championship Tomoharu Otsuki Lost to birdie on fourth extra hole
2 2020 Fujisankei Classic Mikumu Horikawa Won with birdie on third extra hole

Japan Challenge Tour wins (1)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
1 2 Apr 2017 Novil Cup −11 (71-68-66=205) 1 stroke Kunihiro Kamii, Katsuyuki Sakurai

Results in major championships
Tournament 2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut

References
  1. "Week 35 2019 Ending 1 Sep 2019" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. "Rikuya Hoshino". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  3. "Rikuya Hoshino earns U.S. Open spot as late entry". The Japan Times. 12 June 2018.
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