Shugo Imahira

Shugo Imahira
Personal information
Born	(1992-10-02) 2 October 1992 (age 32) Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Sporting nationality	Japan
Career
Turned professional	2011
Current tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour
Professional wins	13
Highest ranking	30 (5 January 2020)[1] (as of 24 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	10
Asian Tour	1
Other	3
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T44: 2020
PGA Championship	CUT: 2018, 2019
U.S. Open	61st: 2020
The Open Championship	CUT: 2016, 2019, 2022
Achievements and awards
Japan Challenge Tour money list winner 2014 Japan Golf Tour money list winner 2018, 2019 Japan Golf Tour Most Valuable Player 2018, 2019

Shugo Imahira (born 2 October 1992) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 2015 and has won 10 times on the tour, between 2017 and 2024. He was the leading money winner in 2018 and 2019.

Japan Challenge Tour

Imahira won twice on the 2014 Japan Challenge Tour en route to winning the season money list title.[2]

Japan Golf Tour

Since 2015 he has played on the main Japan Golf Tour. In 2015, his best finish was second place in the Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup. In 2016, he tied for second place in the Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open and also had a third-place finish and three fourth-place finishes, finishing 10th in the money list. In 2017, he had his first win on the tour, winning the Kansai Open and finished 6th in the money list.[3][4] Imahira won the 2018 Bridgestone Open. He was also 2nd three times, 3rd three times and had 7 other top-10 finishes to be the leading money winner on the 2018 Japan Golf Tour.^[citation needed]

Majors

Imahira played in the 2016 Open Championship for his first major appearance.[5] He had an opening round 68, but shot 80 in the second round and missed the cut.[6][7] He qualified for the 2017 U.S. Open and the 2018 PGA Championship but missed the cut on both occasions.[8] Imahira was 53rd in the world rankings at the end of 2018 and missed out on qualification for the 2019 Masters Tournament, for which the top-50 qualified automatically. However, he later received a special invitation for the event.[9] At the 2020 U.S. Open he did make the cut, but finished last among the remaining players.

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

• 2008 Japan Junior Championship (Boy's 15–17 division)[10][11]

Professional wins (13)

Japan Golf Tour wins (10)

Legend
Japan majors (1)
Other Japan Golf Tour (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	21 May 2017	Kansai Open Golf Championship	−9 (67-69-69-70=275)	6 strokes	Daisuke Kataoka
2	21 Oct 2018	Bridgestone Open	−16 (70-65-67-66=268)	1 stroke	Masahiro Kawamura
3	13 Oct 2019	Bridgestone Open (2)	−11 (64-67=131)*	1 stroke	Hiroyuki Fujita, Seungsu Han, Tomoharu Otsuki, Akio Sadakata
4	24 Nov 2019	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament	−10 (65-72-66=203)*	2 strokes	Hwang Jung-gon
5	5 Sep 2021	Fujisankei Classic	−12 (71-69-68-64=272)	4 strokes	Kenshiro Ikegami, Ryo Ishikawa
6	15 May 2022	Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup^1	−8 (66-69-69-68=272)	1 stroke	Hiroshi Iwata, Yuto Katsuragawa, Kaito Onishi, Kosuke Suzuki (a)
7	22 May 2022	Golf Partner Pro-Am Tournament	−22 (65-67-61-65=258)	Playoff	Tomohiro Kondo, Tomoharu Otsuki
8	2 Apr 2023	Token Homemate Cup	−20 (64-66-71-63=264)	2 strokes	Rikuya Hoshino
9	12 Nov 2023	Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters	−12 (67-66-65-70=268)	1 stroke	Taiki Yoshida
10	13 Oct 2024	Japan Open Golf Championship	−4 (66-72-70-68=276)	1 stroke	Ryosuke Kinoshita

*Note: Tournament shortened to 36/54 holes due to weather.
^1Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2017	ANA Open	Yuta Ikeda, Ryuko Tokimatsu	Ikeda won with birdie on first extra hole
2	2022	Golf Partner Pro-Am Tournament	Tomohiro Kondo, Tomoharu Otsuki	Won with birdie on second extra hole Otsuki eliminated by par on first hole

Asian Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	15 May 2022	Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup^1	−8 (66-69-69-68=272)	1 stroke	Hiroshi Iwata, Yuto Katsuragawa, Kaito Onishi, Kosuke Suzuki (a)

^1Co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour

Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	23 May 2014	Heiwa PGM Challenge I Road to Championship	−10 (66-68=134)	Playoff	Masashi Nishimura, Akinori Tani
2	23 Oct 2014	JGTO Novil Final	−7 (68-69=137)	1 stroke	Mitsugu Murakami

Other wins (1)

• 2018 Legend Charity Pro-Am

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament	2016	2017	2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open		CUT
The Open Championship	CUT
PGA Championship			CUT

Tournament	2019	2020	2021	2022
Masters Tournament	CUT	T44
PGA Championship	CUT
U.S. Open	CUT	61
The Open Championship	CUT	NT		CUT

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2017	2018	2019	2020
Championship			T39	T61
Match Play				NT^1
Invitational			T27
Champions	DQ			NT^1

^1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
DQ = Disqualified
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

See also

• List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins

References

1. "Week 1 2020 Ending 5 Jan 2020" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. "Challenge Tournaments Stats –Money Ranking". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
3. "Kansai Open Golf Championship, final Rd, Shugo Imahira (今平 周吾) wins". Golf-swinger. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
4. "Official World Golf Ranking News 2017: Week 20: Horschel defeats Day in playoff at AT&T Byron Nelson". GolfToday. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
5. "Kodai Ichihara, Shugo Imahira, Sang-hee Lee, Hideto Tanihara qualify for Open Championship". ESPN. 29 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
6. "Recent news on Shugo Imahira - PGA Golfer". Rotoworld. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
7. "The Open: Soomin Lee makes 68 on debut". GolfingIndian. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
8. "Miyazato gets U.S. Open spot after 8-hole playoff in Japan". Japan Today. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
9. "Shugo Imahira receives special invitation to Masters". ESPN. Associated Press. 8 January 2018.
10. "Shugo Imahira". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
11. "2008 National Championships". Japan Golf Association. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

External links

• Shugo Imahira at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• Shugo Imahira at the Official World Golf Ranking official site