Yuta Ikeda

Yuta Ikeda
池田 勇太
Personal information
Born 22 December 1985 (1985-12-22) (age 26)
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 76 kg (170 lb; 12.0 st)
Nationality  Japan
Career
College Tohoku Fukushi University
Turned professional 2008
Current tour(s) Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins 10
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour 9
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament 29th: 2010
U.S. Open T58: 2010
The Open Championship T38: 2011
PGA Championship T45: 2011

Yuta Ikeda (池田 勇太; born 22 December 1985) is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2008 where he has won eight tournaments. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.

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Amateur wins

Professional wins (10)

Japan Golf Tour wins (9)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 14 Jun 2009 Japan PGA Championship -14 (65–67–69–65=266) 7 strokes Mitsuhiro Tateyama
2 30 Aug 2009 Vana H Cup KBC Augusta -21 (69–66–69–63=267) Playoff Yasuharu Imano
3 11 Oct 2009 Canon Open -16 (64–72–64=200) 4 strokes Tomohiro Konda
Han Lee
4 25 Oct 2009 Bridgestone Open -16 (67–67–71–65=270) 2 strokes Kenichi Kuboya
5 19 Jul 2010 Toshin Golf Tournament in LakeWood -17 (68–66–64–73=271) 3 strokes Shunsuke Sonoda
6 22 Sep 2010 ANA Open -14 (70–71–66–67=274) 1 stroke Kim Do-hoon
Jay Choi
7 24 Oct 2010 Bridgestone Open -23 (67–71–65–62=265) 3 strokes Michio Matsumura
8 21 Nov 2010 Dunlop Phoenix -15 (67–66–70–66=269) 2 strokes Kim Kyung-tae
9 31 Jul 2011 Sun Chlorella Classic -14 (66–72–64–72=274) 1 stroke Tetsuji Hiratsuka

Other wins (1)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2009 2010 2011
The Masters DNP 29 CUT
U.S. Open DNP T58 DNP
The Open Championship CUT CUT T38
PGA Championship DNP CUT T45

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place
Yellow background for top-10

Team appearances

Professional

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