| Mika Miyazato 宮里美香 | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Miyazato at the2009 LPGA Championship | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1989-10-10)10 October 1989 (age 36) |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Sporting nationality |  Japan |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2008 |
| Current tour | LPGA Tour (joined2009) |
| Professional wins | 3 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| LPGA Tour | 1 |
| LPGA of Japan Tour | 2 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships | |
| Chevron Championship | T7:2011 |
| Women's PGA C'ship | T2:2012 |
| U.S. Women's Open | 5th:2011 |
| Women's British Open | 4th:2012 |
| Evian Championship | T19: 2013 |
Mika Miyazato (Japanese:宮里美香, born 10 October 1989) is a professionalgolfer fromJapan who has played on the U.S.-basedLPGA Tour.
As an amateur, Miyazato won the 2004 Japan Amateur Women's Championship at the age of 14, and was the youngest player to win the event. In the2006 Asian Games, she won silver medals in the individual and team competitions. Miyazato turned professional in December 2008, after finishing in a tie for 12th in the LPGA FinalQualifying Tournament, a finish that gave her exempt status on the LPGA Tour. The medalist wasStacy Lewis, withMichelle Wie in a tie for seventh.[2][3]
In her first season as a professional at age 19, she had fourth-place finishes at theLPGA Corning Classic andWegmans LPGA tournaments in2009.[2] Miyazato's first professional victory came at theJapan Women's Open Golf Championship in October 2010.[4] That year, she also had five top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour, including two third-place results, and was 17th on the money list with more than $600,000 in earnings.[5]
In2011, Miyazato held the 36-hole lead at theU.S. Women's Open and finished fifth.[6][7] She had three other top-10s during the season, and won nearly $600,000.[8]
Despite a slow start,2012 was Miyazato's best season. After missing three successive cuts in the early spring, she lost in the first round of theSybase Match Play Championship, and did not have a top twenty finish through May.[9][10] Miyazato rebounded the next week in early June with a tie for third at theShopRite LPGA Classic in Atlantic City. The following week, she tied for second at theLPGA Championship, two strokes behind winnerShanshan Feng.[9][11] At her next start at theWalmart NW Arkansas Championship, Miyazato again tied for second. After two additional top ten finishes at theU.S. Women's Open andJamie Farr Toledo Classic,[9] she won her first LPGA Tour event in August at theSafeway Classic in Oregon.[12] For the season, she earned more than $1 million and had nine top-10 finishes.[13]
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In October 2013, Miyazato won her second Japan Women's Open title. With abirdie on the last hole of the tournament, she defeated Erika Kikuchi and Miki Saiki by one stroke.[14] Miyazato made less than half of her 2012 earnings during the2013 LPGA Tour season, with a pair of top-10s.[15] Her earnings on the LPGA dipped to about $105,000 in the2014 season, before climbing back over $500,000in 2015.[16] Almost $200,000 of her 2015 total came at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, where she posted a second-place finish.[17] During the2016 season, Miyazato's earnings dropped to under $300,000, putting her in 68th place on the LPGA money list.[18] She had one top-10 finish in 2016: a tie for sixth at the ShopRite LPGA Classic.[19] In2017, she played in 10 LPGA tournaments, missing the cut in eight of them.[20] Miyazato ended the year outside the top 150 in season earnings.[18] Her LPGA schedule in2018 was limited to two events, a missed cut at theMarathon Classic and a tie for 52nd at theLadies Scottish Open.[21] In Miyazato's only LPGA appearance of2019, at theToto Japan Classic, she tied for 69th.[22]
Although both are fromOkinawa, she is not related to former LPGA Tour playerAi Miyazato.[23][24]
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 Aug2012 | Safeway Classic | –13 (65-68-70=203) | 2 strokes |  Brittany Lincicome Inbee Park |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 Oct2010 | Japan Women's Open Golf Championship | –12 (68-67-73-68=276) | 6 strokes | Miki Saiki |
| 2 | 6 Oct2013 | Japan Women's Open Golf Championship | E (70-70-73-75=288) | 1 stroke | Erika KikuchiMiki Saiki |
Tournaments inbold denotes JLPGA major championships.
Results not in chronological order before 2015.
| Tournament | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANA Inspiration | T40 | T7 | CUT | T63 | CUT | T29 | T56 | CUT | |
| Women's PGA Championship | T39 | 13 | T8 | T2 | T22 | CUT | T41 | T50 | |
| U.S. Women's Open | T57 | CUT | 5 | T7 | T31 | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT |
| Women's British Open | T11 | CUT | T14 | 4 | T59 | T38 | T7 | T58 | |
| The Evian Championship ^ | T19 | T36 | T34 | T22 | |||||
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANA Inspiration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 |
| Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
| U.S. Women's Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 |
| Women's British Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
| The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Totals | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 37 | 27 |
| Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | 2nds | 3rds | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T15 | n/a | n/a | 70.50 | n/a |
| 2009 | 22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 284,788 | 49 | 72.70 | 75 |
| 2010 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 608,889 | 17 | 71.55 | 22 |
| 2011 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 591,688 | 22 | 71.17 | 12 |
| 2012 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1,098,749 | 11 | 70.94 | 10 |
| 2013 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 417,658 | 36 | 71.99 | 50 |
| 2014 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T21 | 105,982 | 91 | 72.74 | 104 |
| 2015 | 24 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 583,141 | 28 | 71.18 | 19 |
| 2016 | 24 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T6 | 270,663 | 68 | 71.72 | 57 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T35 | 18,390 | 157 | 72.29 | 110 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T52 | 5,298 | 170 | 71.50 | n/a |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T69 | 0 | n/a | 73.33 | n/a |
Position inWomen's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
| Year | World ranking | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 246 | [25] |
| 2007 | 256 | [26] |
| 2008 | 303 | [27] |
| 2009 | 60 | [28] |
| 2010 | 22 | [29] |
| 2011 | 24 | [30] |
| 2012 | 10 | [31] |
| 2013 | 22 | [32] |
| 2014 | 82 | [33] |
| 2015 | 37 | [34] |
| 2016 | 79 | [35] |
| 2017 | 243 | [36] |
| 2018 | 390 | [37] |
| 2019 | 148 | [38] |
| 2020 | 164 | [39] |
| 2021 | 238 | [40] |
| 2022 | 423 | [41] |
| 2023 | 1,210 | [42] |
| 2024 | 301 | [43] |
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