Golfers Lydia Ko and Ryan Fox named in New Zealand s team for Tokyo Olympics
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Ko and Fox named in Olympic team
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Matsuyama: Top Amateur to Major Master
Monday 12 April 2021
Hideki Matsuyama has entered the history books after becoming the first Japanese man to win a Major golf championship thanks to a memorable triumph at the Masters Tournament.
In doing so, the 29-year-old completed his impressive rise from promising amateur to Major hero in his homeland after holding his nerve for a one-shot victory at Augusta National.
A journey completed - Hideki Matsuyama wins the 2021 Masters Tournament. #themasters
Japanese Successes
Japan can now boast three Major winners after Hinako Shibuno won the AIG Women’s Open at Woburn in 2019 and Hisako Higuchi the LPGA Championship in 1977, with Matsuyama’s victory set to have further impact on golf in a country of 126 million people and hosts the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
Published - 3 weeks By - Tony Webeck
In some respects, Cameron Davis is the Aussie on the PGA TOUR that no one saw coming.
Certainly not at the speed at which he arrived.
His amateur career was one that few can match.
The 2014 Victorian Amateur champion, Davis won the Australian Amateur title in 2015 and in 2016 was the individual winner at the Eisenhower Trophy that the Australian team won by 19 strokes in Mexico.
Those within the inner sanctum of Australian golf knew Davis had game but when he chased down Jason Day to clinch the 2017 Australian Open from six strokes back the 22-year-old entered a new stratosphere.