Koumei Oda

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Koumei Oda
小田 孔明
Personal information
Born (1978-06-07) 7 June 1978 (age 45)
Tagawa, Fukuoka
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb; 13.4 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional2000
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins8
Highest ranking53 (7 December 2014)[1]
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour8
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT40: 2014
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipT39: 2014
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour
money list winner
2014
Japan Golf Tour
Most Valuable Player
2014

Koumei Oda (Japanese: 小田 孔明, Oda Kōmei, born 7 June 1978) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Career[edit]

Oda was born in Tagawa, Fukuoka. He turned professional in 2000.

Oda won the 2008 Casio World Open and the 2009 Token Homemate Cup. He competed in the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry, but failed to make the cut, finishing day two at 14 over par. He retained the Casio World Open in 2009 and the Token Homemate Cup in 2010.

In 2011, he won the Diamond Cup Golf for his fifth Japan Golf Tour win. In September 2013, Oda won the ANA Open, the victory was his sixth on the Japan Golf Tour. In May 2014, Oda won the Kansai Open Golf Championship for his seventh Japan Golf Tour win. He would follow with his eighth victory on tour later that year in October, when he won the Bridgestone Open.

Professional wins (8)[edit]

Japan Golf Tour wins (8)[edit]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 30 Nov 2008 Casio World Open −11 (66-67-72-72=277) 3 strokes Japan Kenichi Kuboya
2 19 Apr 2009 Token Homemate Cup −10 (69-70-67-68=274) Playoff South Korea Kim Jong-duck
3 29 Nov 2009 Casio World Open (2) −21 (67-65-70-65=267) 3 strokes Japan Ryo Ishikawa
4 18 Apr 2010 Token Homemate Cup (2) −1 (74-70-68-71=283) Playoff Japan Satoru Hirota, Japan Daisuke Maruyama
5 29 May 2011 Diamond Cup Golf −16 (67-65-70-70=272) 4 strokes Japan Toshinori Muto, Japan Kaname Yokoo
6 21 Sep 2013 ANA Open −15 (66-68-71-68=273) 4 strokes Japan Shingo Katayama, South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon
7 25 May 2014 Kansai Open Golf Championship −15 (71-66-69-67=273) 2 strokes Japan Yoshinori Fujimoto
8 26 Oct 2014 Bridgestone Open −15 (67-65-69-68=269) 1 stroke Japan Hiroyuki Fujita

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (2–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2009 Token Homemate Cup South Korea Kim Jong-duck Won with par on second extra hole
2 2010 Token Homemate Cup Japan Satoru Hirota, Japan Daisuke Maruyama Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
Hirota eliminated by par on second hole
3 2014 Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup Japan Ryo Ishikawa Lost to birdie on third extra hole

Results in major championships[edit]

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT CUT CUT T39 CUT
PGA Championship CUT T40 T72
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in World Golf Championships[edit]

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Championship 68
Match Play
Invitational T45
Champions T17
  Did not play

"T" = Tied

Team appearances[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Week 49 2014 Ending 7 Dec 2014" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 22 October 2019.

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