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HidekiMatsuyama
Masters champion, Japan Golf Tour triple award winner and a PGA Tour regular: the career of Hideki Matsuyama in brief.
Asked about Matsuyama
His professional career total stands at 21 victories, and one of those is a major title, the Masters in 2021.
The PGA Tour is where he competes, and the 2026 season is the campaign he is part of.
He is Japanese, born in the city of Matsuyama, while Sendai is the place he calls home.
Nothing about his career suggests retirement, because he still competes at the highest level of professional golf.
He turned professional in 2013, the year he also finished top of the Japan Golf Tour money list.
About Matsuyama
How many tournaments has Hideki Matsuyama won? Twenty-one as a professional, the finest of them the Masters in 2021. The Japanese golfer, who is 34, plays the PGA Tour and owns a single major title, a haul that sits oddly beside the frequency with which he has contended at the game's biggest events.
Hideki Matsuyama turned professional in 2013 and swept the Japan Golf Tour's end-of-year honours: money list winner, Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year. He studied at Tohoku Fukushi University and lives in Sendai. His near-misses at the majors include a tied-second at the US Open in 2017 and a tied-fourth at the PGA Championship in 2016, plus a tied-sixth at the Open Championship.