Misuzu Narita | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Born | Ichihara, Chiba, Japan | 8 October 1992||||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||
Sporting nationality | ![]() | ||||
Career | |||||
College | Nippon Sport Science University | ||||
Status | Professional | ||||
Current tour(s) | LPGA of Japan Tour | ||||
Professional wins | 13 | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
LPGA of Japan Tour | 13 | ||||
Best results in LPGA major championships | |||||
Chevron Championship | DNP | ||||
Women's PGA C'ship | DNP | ||||
U.S. Women's Open | T55: 2014 | ||||
Women's British Open | T50: 2015 | ||||
Evian Championship | DNP | ||||
Achievements and awards | |||||
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Misuzu Narita (成田 美寿々, Narita Misuzu, born 8 October 1992) is a Japanese professional golfer with over a dozen wins on the LPGA of Japan Tour.
Narita was born in Ichihara, Chiba. As an amateur, she won the Kanto Junior Golf and East Japan Women's Public Amateur, and dropped out of Nippon Sport Science University to play golf professionally on the LPGA of Japan Tour. She saw immediate success, winning the 2012 Fujitsu Ladies and the 2012 Rookie of the Year Award. [1] By 2014, after she won her first JLPGA Major, the World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup, she featured in the top-50 on the Women's World Golf Rankings. [3]
Narita finished 5th on the JLPGA money list in 2014 and 2018, earning her starts at the U.S. Women's Open and Women's British Open. She made her first JLPGA hole-in-one at the third round of 2016 Nipponham Ladies Classic. By 2019, she became one of 30 golfers with JLPGA career earnings in excess of half a billion yen. [4]
She represented Japan at the 2018 International Crown and on the winning The Queens teams in 2015 and 2017. [5]
In 2018, she was awarded the JLPGA Shiseido Anessa Beauty of the Year. [2]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 14 Oct 2012 | Fujitsu Ladies | 71-69-67=207 | −9 | 2 strokes | ![]() |
2 | 18 Aug 2013 | NEC Karuizawa 72 | 72-65-65=202 | −14 | Playoff | ![]() |
3 | 11 May 2014 | World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup | 74-72-66-67=279 | −9 | 1 stroke | ![]() |
4 | 8 Jun 2014 | Yonex Ladies Golf Tournament | 68-68-72=208 | −8 | Playoff | ![]() ![]() |
5 | 20 Jul 2014 | Samantha Thavasa Girls Collection Ladies Tournament | 66-67-67=200 | −16 | Playoff | ![]() |
6 | 12 April 2015 | Studio Alice Ladies Open | 73-70-64=207 | −9 | 2 strokes | ![]() |
7 | 14 Jun 2015 | Suntory Ladies Open | 63-71-68-70=272 | −16 | 2 strokes | ![]() |
8 | 30 Jul 2017 | Daito Kentaku Eheyanet Ladies | 70-65-65-67=267 | −21 | 4 strokes | ![]() |
9 | 10 Jun 2018 | Suntory Ladies Open | 70-69-67-66=272 | −16 | Playoff | ![]() |
10 | 24 Jun 2018 | Earth Mondahmin Cup | 68-65-71-67=271 | −17 | 3 strokes | ![]() |
11 | 14 Oct 2018 | Fujitsu Ladies | 71-69-68=208 | −8 | 1 stroke | ![]() |
12 | 7 Apr 2019 | Yamaha Ladies Open Katsuragi | 73-74-69-67=283 | −5 | 1 stroke | ![]() |
13 | 4 Aug 2019 | Daito Kentaku Eheyanet Ladies | 70-70-67-70=277 | −11 | 1 stroke | ![]() ![]() |
Tournaments in bold denotes major tournaments in LPGA of Japan Tour.
Results not in chronological order before 2019.
Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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ANA Inspiration | ||||||
U.S. Women's Open | T55 | CUT | T62 | |||
Women's PGA Championship | ||||||
The Evian Championship | ||||||
Women's British Open | CUT | T50 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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ANA Inspiration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
U.S. Women's Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Women's British Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
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