Yuto Katsuragawa | |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1998 |
Birth Place: | Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan |
Height: | 167 cm |
Weight: | 70 kg |
Residence: | Funabashi, Chiba, Japan |
College: | Nihon University |
Yearpro: | 2020 |
Tour: | European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Extour: | Korn Ferry Tour |
Prowins: | 3 |
Eurowins: | 1 |
Japwins: | 2 |
Otherwins: | 1 |
Masters: | DNP |
Usopen: | 58th: 2023 |
Open: | T47: 2022 |
Pga: | DNP |
Award1: | Japan Golf Tour Rookie of the Year |
Year1: | 2022 |
Yuto Katsuragawa (Japanese: 桂川有人, born 9 October 1998) is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the Japan Golf Tour and European Tour. He has won the ISPS Handa Championship twice.
Katsuragawa turned professional in the fall of 2020 and won his first professional event on the Japan Challenge Tour a year later. In 2022, he won the ISPS Handa Championship in Japan and claimed Japan Golf Tour Rookie of the Year honors.[1]
He qualified for the 150th Open Championship by finishing runner-up at the 2022 SMBC Singapore Open, behind Sadom Kaewkanjana. At the Old Course at St Andrews he shot a final round 69 to finish in a tie for 47th.[2]
Katsuragawa spent 2023 mainly on the Korn Ferry Tour, where he recorded two top-20 finishes, and qualified for the 2023 U.S. Open where he made the cut.[3]
In April 2024, Katsuragawa claimed his first victory on the European Tour when he won the co-sanctioned ISPS Handa Championship for a second time.[4]
Source:[5]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up | |
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1 | 24 Apr 2022 | ISPS Handa Championship in Japan | −24 (67-63-65-65=260) | 1 stroke | Rikuya Hoshino | |
2 | 28 Apr 2024 | ISPS Handa Championship1 (2) | −17 (70-65-65-63=263) | 3 strokes | Sebastian Söderberg |
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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Masters Tournament | ||||
PGA Championship | ||||
U.S. Open | 58 | |||
The Open Championship | T47 | CUT |