Isao Aoki 1988972 195981104 2008-03-05T05:53:23Z Tewapack 1370770 {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=1 cellspacing=1 width=290 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 87%; clear:right" |+<big> '''Isao Aoki'''</big> |- ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#4682B4" | '''Personal Information''' |- | '''Birth''' || {{birth date and age|1942|8|31}} <br>[[Abiko, Chiba]], [[Japan]] |- | '''Height''' || 6 [[Foot (unit of length)|ft]] 0 [[Inch|in]] (1.83 [[Metre|m]]) |- | '''Weight''' || 180 [[Pound (mass)|lb]] (82 [[Kilogram|kg]]) |- | '''Nationality''' || {{JPN}} |- | '''College''' || None |- ! colspan="2" bgcolor="E2725B" | Career |- | '''Turned Pro''' || 1964 |- | '''Current tour''' || [[Champions Tour]] |- | '''Professional wins''' || 77 (Japan Golf Tour: 51, PGA Tour: 1, Champions Tour: 9, Japan Senior PGA Tour: 8, Other: 8) |- ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#ACE1AF" | Best Results in Major Championships |- | [[The Masters|Masters]] | T16: 1985 |- | [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] | 2nd: 1980 |- | [[The Open Championship|British Open]] | T7: 1978, 1979, 1988 |- | [[PGA Championship]] | T4: 1981 |- ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#D8BFD8" | Awards |- | [[Japan Golf Tour#Leading money winners by year|Japan Golf Tour<br>Money Winner]] | 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 |- | [[World Golf Hall of Fame]] | 2004 |} {{nihongo|'''Isao Aoki'''|青木功|Aoki Isao|born [[31 August]] [[1942]]}} is one of [[Japan]]'s most successful [[golf]]ers. He was elected to the [[World Golf Hall of Fame]] in 2004. Aoki was born in [[Abiko, Chiba]], [[Japan]]. He was introduced to golf while caddying at the Abiko Golf Club as a schoolboy. He turned professional in 1964. He went on to win more than fifty events on the [[Japan Golf Tour]] between 1972 and 1990, trailing only [[Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki]] on the [[Golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins|golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins]] list. He won the Japan Golf Tour money list five times in six years: 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981. He is eighth on the career money list (through 2007). In 1983, Aoki won the [[Hawaiian Open]] on the U.S. based [[PGA Tour]] and the [[Panasonic European Open]] on the [[European Tour]]. He also won the prestigious [[HSBC World Match Play Championship|World Match Play Championship]] in [[England]] in 1978, which was not a European Tour event at that time, and picked up a win on the [[PGA Tour of Australasia]]. Aoki played 165 times on the PGA Tour between 1974 and 1999, primarily from 1981 to 1990. His best finish in a [[Men's major golf championships|major championship]] was a second place finish to [[Jack Nicklaus]] (by two strokes) in the 1980 [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]. That finish, combined with his recent record in Japan and around the globe, meant that Aoki would finish 1980 ranked third in the unofficial [[McCormack's World Golf Rankings]], a position he would hold at the end of 1981. After the [[Official World Golf Rankings]] debuted in 1986, he was ranked in the top-10 for several weeks in 1987.<ref>[http://dps.twiihosting.net/wgr/doc/content/2007%20Stats/86TO0810.pdf 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking]</ref> As a senior, Aoki has played mainly in the United States on the [[Champions Tour]], winning nine times between 1992 and 2003. He has six senior victories outside the United States, including three victories in the [[Japan Senior Open]]. ==Professional wins (75)== ===Japan Golf Tour wins (51)=== *1973 (5) [[Chunichi Crowns]], [[Pepsi-Wilson Tournament]], [[Sapporo Tokyu Open]], [[KBC Augusta]], [[Japan PGA Championship]] *1974 (4) Tozai Taiko (JPGA East-West Match), [[Kanto Open]], [[Kanto Pro Championship]], Sanpo Classic *1975 (2) [[Chunichi Crowns]], [[Kanto Open]] *1976 (1) [[Tokai Classic]] *1977 (2) [[Tohoku Classic]], [[Jun Classic]] *1978 (5) [[Chunichi Crowns]], [[Japan PGA Match-Play Championship]], [[Sapporo Tokyu Open]], [[Kanto Pro Championship]], [[Nippon Series (golf)|Nippon Series]] *1979 (4) [[Chunichi Crowns]], [[Japan PGA Match-Play Championship]], [[Kanto Pro Championship]], [[Nippon Series (golf)|Nippon Series]] *1980 (5) [[Chunichi Crowns]], [[Yomiuri Open]], [[KBC Augusta]], [[Kanto Open]], [[Jun Classic]] *1981 (3) [[Shizuoka Open]], [[Japan PGA Match-Play Championship]], [[Japan PGA Championship]] *1982 (2) [[Japan PGA Match-Play Championship]], [[Okinawa Open|Daikyo Open]] *1983 (4) [[Sapporo Tokyu Open]], [[Kanto Pro Championship]], [[Japan Open Golf Championship|Japan Open]], [[Nippon Series (golf)|Nippon Series]] *1986 (4) [[Sapporo Tokyu Open]], [[Japan PGA Championship]], [[KBC Augusta]], [[Kanto Open]] *1987 (4) [[Dunlop International Open]], [[ANA Open]], [[Japan Open Golf Championship|Japan Open]], [[Nippon Series (golf)|Nippon Series]] (tie with [[David Ishii]]) *1989 (2) [[Tokai Classic]], [[Casio World Open]] *1990 (1) [[Mitsubishi Galant Tournament]] *1991 (1) [[Bridgestone Open]] *1992 (2) [[Mitsubishi Galant Tournament]], [[Casio World Open]] The lists from the PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame sites, contain 52 wins, the 1974 Kanto Open is missing from those. His profile on the Japan Golf Tour site says he has 51 wins from 1973 (the official start of the tour). ===PGA Tour wins (1)=== *[[1983 PGA Tour|1983]] [[Hawaiian Open]] ===Other wins (8)=== *1971 [[Kanto Pro Championship]] (Japan) *1972 [[Kanto Pro Championship]] (Japan) *1973 Gold Beck *1978 [[Colgate World Match Play Championship]] (England) *1982 Old Sones Invitational *1983 [[Panasonic European Open]] (European Tour) *1987 [[Fred Meyer Challenge]] (with [[Payne Stewart]]) *1989 Coca Cola Golf Classic (Australia) ===Champions Tour wins (9)=== *[[1992 Senior PGA Tour|1992]] (1) [[Nationwide Championship]] *[[1994 Senior PGA Tour|1994]] (2) [[Bank One Senior Classic]], [[Brickyard Crossing Championship]] *[[1995 Senior PGA Tour|1995]] (1) [[Bank of Boston Senior Classic]] *[[1996 Senior PGA Tour|1996]] (2) [[BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland]], [[Kroger Senior Classic]] *[[1997 Senior PGA Tour|1997]] (1) [[Emerald Coast Classic]] *[[1998 Senior PGA Tour|1998]] (1) [[BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland]] *[[2002 Senior PGA Tour|2002]] (1) [[The Instinet Classic]] ===Japan Senior PGA Tour wins (8)=== *1994 [[Japan Senior Open]] *1995 American Express Grand Slam, [[Japan Senior Open]] *1996 [[Japan Senior Open]] *1997 [[Japan Senior Open]] *2000 N. Cup Senior Open *2002 N. Cup Senior Open *2007 [[Japan Senior Open]] ==Results in major championships== {| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1974 !1975 !1976 !1977 !1978 !1979 |- |[[The Masters Tournament|The Masters]] |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T28 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T34 |- |[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T36 |- |[[The Open Championship]] |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |- |[[PGA Championship]] |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |} {| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1980 !1981 !1982 !1983 !1984 !1985 !1986 !1987 !1988 !1989 |- |[[The Masters Tournament|The Masters]] |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T45 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|19 |align="center"|T25 |align="center"|T16 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T25 |align="center"|DNP |- |[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center"|T11 |align="center"|T30 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T16 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T14 |align="center"|T50 |align="center"|T33 |- |[[The Open Championship]] |align="center"|T12 |align="center"|T11 |align="center"|T20 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T47 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center"|DNP |- |[[PGA Championship]] |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |align="center"|T49 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T36 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T38 |align="center"|T17 |} {| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !1990 |- |[[The Masters Tournament|The Masters]] |align="center"|DNP |- |[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] |align="center"|T33 |- |[[The Open Championship]] |align="center"|CUT |- |[[PGA Championship]] |align="center"|T40 |} DNP = Did not play<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> "T" = tied<br> Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.pgatour.com/players/00/10/30 Profile on the PGA Tour's official site] *[http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG05020200Profile.do?playerCd=4&playerTourKbn=2 Profile of the Japan Golf Tour's official site] *[http://www.wgv.com/hof/member.php?member=1013 Profile of World Golf Hall of Fame site] *[http://isaoaoki.com/TOURNAMENT/ia_tourresultwt.html Isao Aoki's home page] - in Japanese {{DEFAULTSORT:Aoki, Isao}} [[Category:Japanese golfers]] [[Category:Japan Golf Tour golfers]] [[Category:PGA Tour golfers]] [[Category:Champions Tour golfers]] [[Category:Members of the World Golf Hall of Fame]] [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Chiba Prefecture]] [[de:Isao Aoki]] [[ja:青木功]] [[sv:Isao Aoki]]