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Haruo Yasuda

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Haruo Yasuda
Personal information
Born (1943-01-19) 19 January 1943 (age 81)
Tokyo, Japan
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
StatusProfessional
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Asia Golf Circuit
Professional wins17
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour6
Other11
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipCUT: 1981

Haruo Yasuda (安田 春雄, Yasuda Haruo, born 19 January 1943) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Yasuda played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning six times. He also won several pre-tour events in Japan and on the Asia Golf Circuit.[1] In 1968 he nearly won the Thailand Open but double-bogeyed the final hole giving Australian Randall Vines the win.[2]

Professional wins (17)

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PGA of Japan Tour wins (6)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 21 Jul 1974 Tokyo Charity Classic −13 (69-68-69-69=275) Playoff Japan Takashi Murakami
2 20 Jun 1976 Tohoku Classic −11 (74-69-67-67=277) Playoff Japan Fumio Tanaka
3 4 Jun 1978 Tohoku Classic (2) −5 (73-66-73-71=283) 1 stroke Japan Shinsaku Maeda, Japan Masashi Ozaki
4 18 May 1980 Japan PGA Match-Play Championship 2 and 1 Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima
5 8 Jun 1980 Tohoku Classic (3) −15 (66-70-71-66=273) 2 strokes Japan Shinsaku Maeda
6 27 May 1984 Mitsubishi Galant Tournament −13 (68-68-69-70=275) 4 strokes Japan Kouichi Inoue, Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (2–4)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 1974 Tokyo Charity Classic Japan Takashi Murakami Won with birdie on first extra hole
2 1976 Tohoku Classic Japan Fumio Tanaka Won with par on first extra hole
3 1976 KBC Augusta Australia Graham Marsh Lost to birdie on first extra hole
4 1976 Japan PGA Championship Japan Shichiro Enomoto, Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan,
Japan Seiichi Kanai
Kanai won with par on third extra hole
Hsieh and Yasuda eliminated by par on first hole
5 1979 Aso National Park Open Japan Takashi Kurihara, Japan Shinsaku Maeda
6 1983 KSB Setonaikai Open Japan Kenji Sogame Lost after concession before playoff

Asia Golf Circuit wins (4)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 2 Mar 1969 Philippine Open −9 (68-71-71-69=279) 1 stroke Philippines Ben Arda, Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan
2 7 Mar 1971 Singapore Open −7 (69-70-69-69=277) 2 strokes Japan Takaaki Kono, Australia Peter Thomson
3 25 Apr 1971 Yomiuri International −6 (71-66-72-73=282) Playoff Japan Kosaku Shimada
4 9 Apr 1972 Taiwan Open −4 (68-73-70-73=284) Playoff Taiwan Kuo Chie-Hsiung

Asia Golf Circuit playoff record (2–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 1971 Yomiuri International Japan Kosaku Shimada Won with bogey on third extra hole
2 1972 Taiwan Open Taiwan Kuo Chie-Hsiung Won with birdie on fifth extra hole

Japanese circuit wins (7)

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Team appearances

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References

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  1. ^ "No-risk Yasuda is Open golf champion". The Straits Times. 8 March 1971. p. 27.
  2. ^ "Thai golf title to Vines". The Canberra Times. 18 March 1968. p. 12. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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