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Takumi Kanaya (22 = Tohoku Welfare Univ.) Won his first professional title and won his second tour since the Sumitomo Mitsui VISA Pacific Masters, which he won in November last year as an amateur.
He was 69 with 3 birdies and 1 bogey, and lined up with Tomohiro Ishizaka with a total of 13 under par and 271. Under the current touring system, he won the first rookie-to-college playoff of more than an hour on the fourth hole. After turning pro on October 2 of this year, he won the third national tour, the second fastest after Hideki Matsuyama’s second, and the winner of this tournament is the youngest Japanese to surpass Matsuyama. The new sign for Japanese children was powerful and said, “Confidence is turning into conviction.”
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Kanaya raised her hands after deciding on a birdie putt of just 12 inches. The playoff that lasted over an hour was resolved at hole 4. “(Guts’s pose) came off quickly because it was a great game.” I turned from my usual calm game and looked back in the moment of explosion of joy. Since August last year, he has held the number one position in the amateur world. In September of this year, he was the first Japanese to win the McCormack Medal, the world’s number one amateur. After turning pro, he has been seventh and fifth in the last two races in Japan. “I was worried if I could turn pro and pass. Little by little I gained confidence and won the third race. Confidence is turning into conviction.” I spilled a smile.
He came out of third place with a one-shot difference, and at the end of the first half, he widened Ishizaka by two shots. Still, in the final stage, 15th and 16th consecutive birdies. The No. 16 screwed 5 meters from the green edge with a putter and applied heavy pressure to invite Ishizaka’s ghost to catch up. The playoff also goes up and down. “We were able to play well with each other by working hard together.” It made me feel like a new era for Japanese guys.
Winner of the third professional career after Matsuyama, a senior at the university. At the same time, this tournament was the youngest Japanese to win the championship, beating Matsuyama. “I am happy to win the same match as my esteemed senior,” he said. He once set his future goal as “to become a player who appears to be a rival to Matsuyama”. He learned the importance of coming up with three majors in the amateur era and increased a 14-club wedge. To become a rival, he is already aware of the battle on the same stage as Matsuyama, the US tour.
Girls are very popular these days, but he says, “I just play hard.” The award rank that will compete until the end of next year has risen to third place, and the rookie season second award king after Matsuyama is also on the horizon. In the future, we are looking to participate in the US tour, but if the exploits overlap with the fierce battle like this day, the attention of the children is sure to increase.[Bunta Takada]
◆ Takumi Kanaya Born on May 23, 1998 in Hiroshima Prefecture. He started playing golf at the age of five. In 2015, he was the youngest in history to win the Japanese amateur at 17 years and 51 days. In the same year, the Japan Open was eleventh, the youngest in history to win an amateur bass. Last year, he held the number one position in the world amateur rankings since August, and won the tour for the fourth amateur at the Sumitomo Mitsui VISA Pacific Masters in November. He turned pro on October 2 of this year. 172 cm, 75 kilos
◆ Kanaya’s first professional victory After turning professional, the third national touring championship was the second among the Japanese after Hideki Matsuyama’s second career since the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO) was established in 1999. Quick (Zhao Hajime, who has participated in the Korean tour as a professional since 2009, won the fastest in the Japan tour’s first record race in 2016). Kanaya, who won the 47th tournament at 22 years, 5 months and 30 days, is the youngest Japanese champion (Sebe from Spain in 1977) to renew the 22 years, 8 months and 29 days of Hideki Matsuyama, who won the tournament 14 years old. ・ 20-year-old, 7-month-old and 18-day-old Valesteros is the youngest). It’s also the first time a rookie and a college student have two names in the playoffs. The fourth hole of the playoff is the first in a year and a half since Tomoharu Otsuki defeated Rikuya Hoshino on the fourth hole of the Kansai Open in May last year.
The tee shot for the first hole is the left bunker and the second shot is the fairway. Almost the same up to the position of the ball. Kanaya made the third shot into the rough on the left side of the green. Ishizaka moved 10 feet toward the pin, but he took the birdie putt off and hit each other.
On both the second hole, Kanaya hit the tree with the second shot from the fairway, and Ishizaka went to the bunker in front of the green. Kanaya’s third shot went over the glass and it was perfect. Ishizaka decided the putt that was 4 meters and both were birdies.
On the tee shot on the third hole, Kanaya is on the right and Ishizaka on the left. When Kanaya hit 3 meters on the third shot, Ishizaka came around less than 1 meter and the birdies were stolen.
Kanaya puts the tee shot on the 4th hole of the fairway and Ishizaka puts it in the forest on the right. Ishizaka’s third shot, who only hit the second shot, and Kanaya’s second shot are rough and similar positions beyond the green. They both came from there, 1 putt. Birdie Kanaya’s victory is determined.
▼ 1W = PING G410 Plus (Shaft = UST Mamiyaji Attas, Hardness 7S, Loft 9 degrees, Length 45.25 inches) ▼ 3W = Same G410LST fairway wood (14.5 degrees) ▼ 3UT = Same G410 Hybrid (14.5 degrees) 19 degrees ) ▼ Iron = 5I = G710 (21.5 degrees), 5I ~ PW = i210 ▼ Wedge = Forged Slide (52, 58, 60 degrees) ▼ Putter = SIGMA2 ARNA ▼ Ball = Bridgestone Tour BX
▽ Otsuki, who came out of the top tie and finished third, I was able to extend two in the first half and it was a very good feeling, but the flow was not good from the bogey in the second half. I want to practice thinking that I didn’t have the ability to win yet.
▽ Inamori (No. 18) who is in 3rd place with No. 18 as a bogey while lining up to No. 17 in the lead, I thought (Kanaya or Ishizaka in the back group) would go to 14 under, so the one who attacked will be the birdie. I thought it was easy to take … I hit a tree. It may be the result of the attack.
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