For the first time in 95 years, an amateur has won the Japan Open Golf Championship.
Taiga Semikawa, a 21-year-old senior at Tohoku Fukushi University, captured the title at the Sanko Golf Club's Japan Course in Miki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sunday. He won by two strokes with a 10-under 270 over four rounds, despite a 3-over 73 in his final and worst round.
Semikawa is the world's top-ranked amateur golfer and only the second amateur to capture the Japan Open since Rokuro Akahoshi won the inaugural event in 1927.
