Hideto Tanihara

Hideto Tanihara
谷原 秀人
Personal information
Born 16 November 1978 (1978-11-16) (age 33)
Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 75 kg (170 lb; 11.8 st)
Nationality  Japan
Spouse Ayaka Nagate
Career
Turned professional 2001
Current tour(s) Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins 9
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour 9
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 2007
U.S. Open DNP
The Open Championship T5: 2006
PGA Championship T55: 2006

Hideto Tanihara (谷原 秀人 Tanihara Hideto?, born 16 November 1978) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Tanihara was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. He has won nine tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings with his highest ranking coming in December 2007 when he reached 68th. He represented Japan at the 2007 Omega Mission Hills World Cup with Tetsuji Hiratsuka.

On 14 July 2008, it was announced that he and actress Ayaka Nagate had married.

Contents

Japan Golf Tour wins (9)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship CUT DNP DNP T5 CUT CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP T55 DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

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