Dinesh Chand

Dinesh Chand
Personal information
Born	(1972-02-06) 6 February 1972 (age 53)
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb; 13.4 st)
Sporting nationality	Fiji
Career
Turned professional	1992
Current tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour
Professional wins	6
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	3
Other	3
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT: 2001, 2004
Achievements and awards
Japan Challenge Tour money list winner 2010

Dinesh Chand (born 6 February 1972) is a Fijian professional golfer who plays mainly on the Japan Golf Tour.

Professional career

At the end of 2009, he lost his full playing rights for the Japan Golf Tour and so decided to play on the developmental Japan Challenge Tour in 2010. He won two events in a row which resulted in him regaining his full playing rights for the second half of the Japan Golf Tour season. He finished second at the 2010 Sun Chlorella Classic.

Chand has three wins on the Japan Golf Tour, and two on the Japan Challenge Tour.

Professional wins (6)

Japan Golf Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	5 Apr 1998	Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup	−17 (71-66-66-68=271)	2 strokes	Carlos Franco, Hidemichi Tanaka
2	20 May 2001	Munsingwear Open KSB Cup	−17 (69-68-67-67=271)	2 strokes	Toshimitsu Izawa
3	20 Jun 2004	Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open	−20 (66-68-68-66=268)	4 strokes	Hur Suk-ho

Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	28 May 2010	Fuji Country Kani Club Challenge Cup	−8 (68-68=136)	4 strokes	Hiroaki Iijima, Sushi Ishigaki, Hirohito Koizumi, Kiyoshi Maita, Hidezumi Shirakata
2	11 Jun 2010	Tohoku Yakurai Cup	−9 (68-65=133)	Playoff	Park Sung-joon, Achi Sato

Other wins (1)

• 2008 Hirao Masaaki Charity Golf

Results in major championships

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004
The Open Championship	CUT			CUT

Note: Chand only played in The Open Championship.

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances

• WGC-World Cup (representing Fiji): 2001, 2002

External links

• Dinesh Chand at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• Dinesh Chand at the Official World Golf Ranking official site