Tōru Nakamura (golfer)

Tōru Nakamura 中村 通
Personal information
Born	(1950-10-31) 31 October 1950 Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st)
Sporting nationality	Japan
Career
Turned professional	1968
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins	28
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	20 (Tied 9th all time)
Other	8
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	CUT: 1980
PGA Championship	T59: 1980
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T20: 1982

Tōru Nakamura (中村 通, Nakamura Tōru, born 31 October 1950) is a Japanese golfer.

Nakamura was born in Osaka. He won 20 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and ranks eighth on the career victories list.

Professional wins (28)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (20)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	2 Sep 1973	Hiroshima Open	−19 (67-64-68-70=269)	1 stroke	Iraneo Legaspi
2	16 Jun 1974	Sapporo Tokyu Open	−10 (71-67-71-69=278)	2 strokes	Graham Marsh
3	25 Aug 1974	KBC Augusta	−15 (67-65-70-71=273)	1 stroke	Teruo Sugihara
4	24 Nov 1975	ABC Japan vs USA Golf Matches	−15 (67-67-71-68=273)	7 strokes	Al Geiberger
5	7 May 1978	Wizard Tournament	−2 (73-70-71=214)	1 stroke	Kikuo Arai, Yoshitaka Yamamoto
6	11 Jun 1978	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	−8 (72-68-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Hsu Sheng-san, Norio Suzuki
7	3 Jun 1979	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament (2)	−3 (74-72-71-68=285)	1 stroke	Yoshio Kusayanagi
8	10 Jun 1979	Tohoku Classic	−10 (73-67-69-69=278)	Playoff	Hsieh Min-Nan
9	1 Jul 1979	Kansai Pro Championship	−15 (69-66-68-70=273)	4 strokes	Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Shigeru Uchida
10	18 Apr 1982	Bridgestone Aso Open	−5 (74-72-68-69=283)	3 strokes	Shigeru Uchida
11	13 May 1984	Japan PGA Match-Play Championship	4 and 3		Kouichi Inoue
12	12 Aug 1984	JPGA East-West Tournament	−10 (67-65=132)
13	2 Sep 1984	Kansai Open Golf Championship	−7 (70-75-67-69=281)	2 strokes	Yoshitaka Yamamoto
14	2 Dec 1984	Golf Nippon Series	−23 (66-66-67-68=267)	7 strokes	Masahiro Kuramoto
15	9 Nov 1986	Hiroshima Open (2)	−16 (68-68-71-65=272)	Playoff	Saburo Fujiki
16	7 Dec 1986	Golf Nippon Series (2)	−15 (70-70-66-69=275)	2 strokes	Isao Aoki
17	25 Sep 1988	Gene Sarazen Jun Classic	−12 (68-68-69-35=240)*	4 strokes	Nobuo Serizawa
18	11 Mar 1990	Imperial Open	−3 (69-72-73-71=285)	Playoff	Hideto Shigenobu
19	9 Sep 1990	Suntory Open	−17 (65-65-69-72=271)	1 stroke	Graham Marsh
20	28 Jun 1992	Mizuno Open	−6 (70-72-72-68=282)	1 stroke	Saburo Fujiki, Brian Jones

*Note: The 1988 Gene Sarazen Jun Classic was shortened to 63 holes due to rain.

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (3–5)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1975	Hiroshima Open	Lu Liang-Huan, Kosaku Shimada	Lu won two-hole aggregate playoff; Lu: E (3-4=7), Nakamura: +2 (5-4=9), Shimada: +2 (4-5=9)
2	1979	Tohoku Classic	Hsieh Min-Nan	Won with birdie on second extra hole
3	1981	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	Lu Hsi-chuen, Teruo Sugihara	Lu won with birdie on first extra hole
4	1981	Tokai Classic	Fujio Kobayashi, Masahiro Kuramoto, Hideto Shigenobu	Kuramoto won with par on first extra hole
5	1983	Yomiuri Open	Graham Marsh	Lost to birdie on third extra hole
6	1986	Hiroshima Open	Saburo Fujiki	Won with par on fourth extra hole
7	1990	Imperial Open	Hideto Shigenobu	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
8	1994	Dydo Shizuoka Open	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Lost to par on first extra hole

Other wins (8)

• 1973 Okinawa Classic
• 1975 Young Lions
• 1976 All Star
• 1977 All Star
• 1982 Kobe-Gifu Open, ???
• 1984 Kobe-Gifu Open
• 1989 Kuzuha International

Team appearances

• World Cup (representing Japan): 1973
• Four Tours World Championship (representing Japan): 1987, 1989

See also

• List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins

External links

• Tōru Nakamura at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• Tōru Nakamura at the Official World Golf Ranking official site