Aug 2 (Reuters) - Japan's Shiho Kuwaki won the Women's Open after defeating Germany's Esther Henseleit in a playoff at Royal Lytham on Sunday, claiming her first major title after finishing regulation ...

Hideki Matsuyama may instantly have risen to the greatest golfing hero Japan has ever known with Sunday’s roller-coaster ride Masters win. Now, however, comes the hard part. Because as challenging as ...

Winningest Japanese golf professional in history, Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, has passed away at the age of 78. According to reports in his native Japan, Ozaki died on December 23, 2025, following a battle ...

The Great Gorge Golf Club in Vernon — on the former site of the 1970s Playboy resort — is perhaps the first venue in New Jersey publicly offering a little-known sport called park golf. It’s one of ...

Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, the most decorated golfer on the Japan Golf Tour, has died at age 78. Ozaki won 94 titles on the Japanese circuit and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.

Golf can take you many places, but for Bill Kerdyk Jr., it led to an unexpected destination: Japan. “I’ve spent two years of my life in Japan,” he said. “I mean, you just never know where life takes ...

At around 8 a.m. in Tokyo, throngs of fans who stayed up all night or set alarms for before sunrise to watch a golf tournament on television got the reward they had dreamed about for decades. A ...

Late in the third round of the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, Hideki Matsuyama was out of contention. He was coming off three bogeys in four holes and now faced the par-3 16th, the third-most ...