Dinesh Chand

Dinesh Chand
Personal information
Born (1972-02-06) 6 February 1972 (age 52)
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb; 13.4 st)
Sporting nationality Fiji
Career
Turned professional1992
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Asian Tour
Professional wins6
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour3
Other3
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipCUT: 2001, 2004
Achievements and awards
Japan Challenge Tour
money list winner
2010

Dinesh Chand (born 6 February 1972) is a Fijian professional golfer who plays mainly on the Japan Golf Tour.

At the end of 2009, he lost his full playing rights for the Japan Golf Tour and so decided to play on the developmental Japan Challenge Tour in 2010. He won two events in a row which resulted in him regaining his full playing rights for the second half of the Japan Golf Tour season. He finished second at the 2010 Sun Chlorella Classic.

Chand has three wins on the Japan Golf Tour, and two on the Japan Challenge Tour.

Professional wins (6)

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 5 Apr 1998 Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup −17 (71-66-66-68=271) 2 strokes Paraguay Carlos Franco, Japan Hidemichi Tanaka
2 20 May 2001 Munsingwear Open KSB Cup −17 (69-68-67-67=271) 2 strokes Japan Toshimitsu Izawa
3 20 Jun 2004 Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open −20 (66-68-68-66=268) 4 strokes South Korea Hur Suk-ho

Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1 28 May 2010 Fuji Country Kani Club Challenge Cup −8 (68-68=136) 4 strokes Japan Hiroaki Iijima, Japan Sushi Ishigaki,
Japan Hirohito Koizumi, Japan Kiyoshi Maita,
Japan Hidezumi Shirakata
2 11 Jun 2010 Tohoku Yakurai Cup −9 (68-65=133) Playoff South Korea Park Sung-joon, Japan Achi Sato

Other wins (1)

  • 2008 Hirao Masaaki Charity Golf

Results in major championships

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004
The Open Championship CUT CUT

Note: Chand only played in The Open Championship.

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances