Shingo Katayama

Shingo Katayama (Japanese: 片山 晋呉, born 31 January 1973) is a Japanese golfer.

Shingo Katayama 片山 晋呉
Personal information
Full name	Shingo Katayama 片山 晋呉
Born	(1973-01-31) 31 January 1973 (age 52) Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	161 lb (73 kg)
Sporting nationality	Japan
Career
Turned professional	1995
Current tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Japan PGA Senior Tour
Professional wins	35
Highest ranking	23 (16 December 2007)[1]
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	31 (5th all-time)
Other	4
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	4th: 2009
PGA Championship	T4: 2001
U.S. Open	T35: 2002
The Open Championship	T34: 2003
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour money list winner 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 Japan Golf Tour Most Valuable Player 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008

Early life and professional career

Katayama was born in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. He turned professional in 1995 and has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 1997. He topped the Japan Golf Tour money list five times: 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008. He has won 31 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking fifth on the career wins list and ranking second on the career money list with over ¥2,000,000,000.

Katayama has played in several major championships and World Golf Championships events, and his most notable achievement outside Japan is his tied fourth-place finish at the 2001 PGA Championship. He played the 3rd round with the champion David Toms. He was called "Cowboy Shingo" due to his distinctive cowboy-style hat. Placing fourth with a 10-under par at the 2009 Masters, he tied Toshimitsu Izawa (2001) for the best showing of a Japanese golfer at the tournament.

Katayama also featured in the top thirty of the Official World Golf Ranking, reaching a highest ranking of 23rd in December 2007.

Katayama rarely played on the U.S. based PGA Tour, playing the majority of his golf in Japan. His best finish outside of Japan, (excluding majors) came in 2006 at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship where he defeated Colin Montgomerie, 3 and 2, in the second round en route to finishing T9.^[2]

Professional wins (35)

Japan Golf Tour wins (31)

Legend
Flagship events (2)
Japan majors (7)[a]
Other Japan Golf Tour (24)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	9 Aug 1998	Sanko Grand Summer Championship	−14 (67-66-68-73=274)	Playoff	Kazuhiko Hosokawa
2	6 Jun 1999	JCB Classic Sendai	−16 (69-63-69-67=268)	Playoff	Shigemasa Higaki
3	23 Apr 2000	Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open	−4 (70-70-70-70=280)	2 strokes	Lin Keng-chi, Peter Senior, Andre Stolz
4	21 May 2000	Munsingwear Open KSB Cup	−16 (68-65-66-73=272)	1 stroke	Nobuhito Sato
5	19 Nov 2000	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament	−19 (65-66-66-68=265)	4 strokes	Bob May
6	3 Dec 2000	Golf Nippon Series JT Cup	−9 (69-67-67-68=271)	3 strokes	Hirofumi Miyase
7	10 Dec 2000	Fancl Open in Okinawa	−11 (66-69-69-73=277)	2 strokes	Toru Taniguchi
8	11 Mar 2001	Token Corporation Cup	−8 (69-63-73=205)*	2 strokes	Tsuneyuki Nakajima
9	22 Apr 2001	Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open (2)	−13 (64-70-70-67=271)	6 strokes	Hajime Meshiai
10	9 Sep 2001	Suntory Open	−16 (66-68-68-66=268)	3 strokes	Darren Clarke, Keiichiro Fukabori, Nobuo Serizawa
11	15 Sep 2002	Suntory Open (2)	−15 (68-68-68-65=269)	4 strokes	Kōki Idoki, Yasuharu Imano
12	8 Dec 2002	Golf Nippon Series JT Cup (2)	−19 (62-66-66-67=261)	9 strokes	David Smail
13	18 May 2003	Japan PGA Championship	−17 (71-66-66-68=271)	1 stroke	Hur Suk-ho
14	2 Nov 2003	ABC Championship	−23 (64-69-68-64=265)	9 strokes	Katsumasa Miyamoto
15	2 May 2004	The Crowns	−16 (65-64-63-72=264)	2 strokes	Paul Sheehan
16	11 Jul 2004	Woodone Open Hiroshima	−22 (70-63-70-63=266)	5 strokes	Ryuichi Oda
17	16 Oct 2005	Japan Open Golf Championship	−2 (71-73-70-68=282)	2 strokes	Ryoken Kawagishi, Craig Parry
18	30 Oct 2005	ABC Championship (2)	−14 (70-65-70-69=274)	2 strokes	Dinesh Chand
19	30 Apr 2006	The Crowns (2)	−18 (63-67-62-70=262)	2 strokes	Nozomi Kawahara
20	3 Sep 2006	Fujisankei Classic	−10 (66-71-68-69=274)	3 strokes	Liang Wenchong
21	29 Oct 2006	ABC Championship (3)	−17 (71-70-68-62=271)	Playoff	Yang Yong-eun
22	1 Jul 2007	UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills	−9 (69-68-67-67=271)	1 stroke	Naoya Takemoto
23	21 Oct 2007	Bridgestone Open	−18 (68-67-67-68=270)	1 stroke	Steven Conran, Keiichiro Fukabori, Tomohiro Kondo
24	18 May 2008	Japan PGA Championship (2)	−23 (67-66-65-67=265)	6 strokes	Liang Wenchong
25	19 Oct 2008	Japan Open Golf Championship (2)	−1 (68-72-72-71=283)	4 strokes	Ryo Ishikawa
26	16 Nov 2008	Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters	−16 (67-68-68-69=272)	Playoff	Yasuharu Imano
27	6 Oct 2013	Coca-Cola Tokai Classic	−7 (74-76-64-67=281)	Playoff	Hidemasa Hoshino, Satoshi Tomiyama
28	30 Nov 2014	Casio World Open	−17 (70-64-72-65=271)	3 strokes	Satoshi Tomiyama
29	15 Nov 2015	Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters (2)	−14 (64-68-70=202)*	1 stroke	Thanyakon Khrongpha
30	30 Oct 2016	Mynavi ABC Championship (4)	−12 (67-68-73-68=276)	1 stroke	Shintaro Kobayashi
31	10 Sep 2017	ISPS Handa Match Play	3 and 2		Ryu Hyun-woo

*Note: Tournament shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (5–3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1998	Sanko Grand Summer Championship	Kazuhiko Hosokawa	Won with par on third extra hole
2	1999	JCB Classic Sendai	Shigemasa Higaki	Won with birdie on third extra hole
3	2002	Japan PGA Championship	Kenichi Kuboya	Lost to birdie on second extra hole
4	2006	ABC Championship	Yang Yong-eun	Won with birdie on second extra hole
5	2008	Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters	Yasuharu Imano	Won with birdie on first extra hole
6	2012	Coca-Cola Tokai Classic	Ryu Hyun-woo	Lost to par on first extra hole
7	2013	Coca-Cola Tokai Classic	Hidemasa Hoshino, Satoshi Tomiyama	Won with birdie on first extra hole
8	2015	Top Cup Tokai Classic	Kim Hyung-sung	Lost to birdie on second extra hole

Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

• 1993 Mito Green Open (as an amateur)
• 1995 Korakuen Cup (5th)

Other wins (1)

• 2016 Legend Charity Pro-Am

Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	1 Jun 2024	Sumaida Cup Senior Golf Tournament	−15 (68-64-69=201)	1 stroke	Thaworn Wiratchant

Results in major championships

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Masters Tournament			T40	CUT	T37		T33	T27	T44	CUT	4
U.S. Open			CUT	T35			CUT	CUT	T36	CUT
The Open Championship	71	CUT	CUT	T50	T34			CUT
PGA Championship		CUT	T4	CUT	CUT	T62	T23		T50		CUT

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013
Masters Tournament	CUT
U.S. Open
The Open Championship				T44
PGA Championship

  Top 10

  Did not play

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

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	1	1	1	9	6
U.S. Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4
PGA Championship	0	0	0	1	1	2	8	4
Totals	0	0	0	2	2	3	30	16

• Most consecutive cuts made – 3 (2007 Masters – 2007 PGA)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice times)

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
The Players Championship	CUT				T70

  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Championship			67			72	T73	T46
Match Play	R64	R64	R64	R64	R16	R64	R64	R32
Invitational						T46		72
Champions								T33

  Top 10

  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing Japan): 1994

Professional

• Dynasty Cup (representing Japan): 2005
• EurAsia Cup (representing Asia): 2016

See also

• List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins

Notes

1. The 2005 and 2008 Japan Open Golf Championships were also Japan major championships.