Shigeki Maruyama is a Japanese professional golfer.
Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins Jr. is an American professional golfer. He won 21 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including one major, the 1977 PGA Championship. He ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for 86 weeks from the ranking's debut in 1986 to 1988.
Jeev Milkha Singh Rathore is an Indian professional golfer who became the first player from India to join the European Tour in 1998. He has won four events on the European Tour, becoming the most successful Indian on tour. He was the first Indian golfer to break into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking in October 2006. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2007. He is also the recipient of 1999 Arjuna Award.
Ai Miyazato is a former Japanese professional golfer who competed on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA). She was the top-ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings on three occasions in 2010.
The Women's World Golf Rankings, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Rolex Rankings, were introduced in February 2006. They are sanctioned by 12 women's golf tours and the organisations behind them: Ladies Professional Golf Association, Ladies European Tour, Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan, Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association, WPGA Tour of Australasia, Epson Tour, China Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, the Ladies European Tour Access Series, Taiwan LPGA Tour, JLPGA Step Up Tour (JSU), KLPGA Dream Tour (KDT), and Thai LPGA Tour and also by The R&A, which administers the Women's British Open and the United States Golf Association which conducts the U.S. Women's Open.
Prayad Marksaeng is a Thai professional golfer.
Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world.
Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki is a Japanese professional golfer.
Hideto Tanihara is a Japanese professional golfer. He has won 18 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour.
Liang Wenchong is a Chinese professional golfer. He was the highest ranked golfer from the People's Republic of China and the first Chinese golfer to have reached the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. He succeeded his mentor Zhang Lianwei as the top Chinese player.
Kim Kyung-tae, also known as K.T. Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer who currently plays on the Japan Golf Tour and the Korean Tour.
Ryo Ishikawa, also known by the nickname "Hanikami Ōji", is a Japanese professional golfer.
Hsieh Min-Nan, also known as Tony Hsieh, is a Taiwanese professional golfer.
Michiko Hattori is a Japanese professional golfer and former Player of the Year on the LPGA of Japan Tour. Before turning professional, she became the first Japanese born champion of the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Yuta Ikeda is a Japanese professional golfer.
Yoshiyuki Abe is a Japanese racing cyclist, who last rode for Japanese amateur team Abenova. He turned professional with Shimano Racing, the team operated by Shimano, after graduating from Osaka Institute of Technology, but soon transferred to Italian teams. He won the Japan Cup in 1997 and is still the only Japanese to win that important race. He became Japanese national champion in the road race in 1997 and 2000, and in the individual time trial in 1999 and 2000. Abe represented Japan in the 2000 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 2006 Asian Games in the team time trial.
Katsunori Kuwabara is a Japanese professional golfer.
Kim Hyung-sung is a South Korean professional golfer.
Yoshinobu Tsukada is a Japanese professional golfer.
Chan Kim is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. He formerly played on the Japan Golf Tour, where he won eight times.
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