Takashi Murakami (golfer)

Takashi Murakami
村上隆
Takashi Murakami; 村上隆
Personal information
Born	25 May 1944 (age 80); Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Sporting nationality	Japan
Career
Status	Professional
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins	18
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	11
Other	7
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	T37: 1976
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP
Achievements and awards
PGA of Japan Tour; money list winner
PGA of Japan Tour; money list winner	1975

Takashi Murakami (Japanese: 村上隆, born 25 May 1944) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Early life

Murakami was born in Shizuoka. He started playing golf at the age of 11.^[1]

He won 11 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and led the money list in 1975.

Murakami also had a decent amount of success outside of Japan. He recorded a number of runner-up finishes in the Australasian region. They were the 1968 West Australian Championship,^[2] 1969 Australian PGA Championship,^[3] and 1972 New Zealand PGA Championship.^[4] He also had much success on the Asia Golf Circuit events in 1972. He won the Malaysian Open^[5] and finished runner-up at the Singapore Open^[6] and Hong Kong Open.^[7] In the United States he finished in a tie for second at the PGA Tour's 1977 Hawaiian Open. He also played in the Masters Tournament in 1976 and 1977.

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	29 Jul 1973	All Japan Doubles (with Hideyo Sugimoto)	−26 (100-101-61=262)
2	29 Apr 1974	Chunichi Crowns	−8 (63-71-68-70=272)	6 strokes	Masashi Ozaki
3	6 Oct 1974	Golf Digest Tournament	−17 (66-67-70-68=271)	1 stroke	Kuo Chie-Hsiung
4	18 May 1975	Japan PGA Match-Play Championship	2 up		Namio Takasu
5	28 Sep 1975	Japan Open Golf Championship	−10 (74-69-69-66=278)	3 strokes	Seiichi Kanai
6	19 Oct 1975	Japan PGA Championship	−6 (69-68-70-75=282)	Playoff	Yoshitaka Yamamoto
7	16 Nov 1975	Japan PGA Championship	−7 (70-72-71-70=283)	1 stroke	Seiichi Kanai, Kosaku Shimada
8	4 Jul 1976	ANA Sapporo Open	−3 (74-68-76-67=285)	3 strokes	Masashi Ozaki
9	8 Aug 1976	Kanto Pro Championship	−14 (67-66-70-67=270)
10	31 Oct 1976	Bridgestone Tournament	−6 (71-75-69-67=282)	Playoff	Hsieh Min-Nan, Masaji Kusakabe
11	23 Oct 1977	Golf Digest Tournament (2)	−13 (70-66-67-72=275)	4 strokes	Masashi Ozaki

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (2–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1974	Tokyo Charity Classic	Haruo Yasuda	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
2	1975	Japan PGA Championship	Yoshitaka Yamamoto	Won three-hole aggregate playoff; Murakami: −1 (4-4-3=11), Yamamoto: E (4-4-4=12)
3	1976	Bridgestone Tournament	Hsieh Min-Nan, Masaji Kusakabe	Won with par on third extra hole Hsieh eliminated by par on second hole

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	12 Mar 1972	Malaysian Open	−12 (69-66-71-70=276)	1 stroke	Marty Bohen, Walter Godfrey, Sukree Onsham

^ "Takashi Murakami". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
^ "Townsend wins West Australian title". The Glasgow Herald. 21 October 1968. p. 5.
^ "Devlin eases up but wins PGA title easily". The Canberra Times. Vol. 44, no. 12464. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 November 1969. p. 14. Retrieved 1 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Japanese wins NZ golf title". The Canberra Times. Vol. 46, no. 13014. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 January 1972. p. 11. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Murakami tops". The Gazette (Montreal). 13 March 1972. p. 17 – via Google News Archive.
^ "It's Kono's title as Jumbo crashes". The Straits Times. 6 March 1972. p. 31.
^ "Godfrey Takes Hong Kong Open Under Pressure". The Canberra Times. 3 April 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

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