Ryo Ishikawa News

Japanese youngsters Ryo Ishikawa and Yuta Ikeda will be invited to the Masters in April next year.

Ishikawa crunches 367-yard drive Japanese teenage golf sensation Ryo Ishikawa holds a plate to congratulate him for becoming the youngest-ever top money earner in the world after the last golf tournament of the season at the Nippon Series in Yomiuri Country Club in Tokyo on December 6, 2009.

Record-breaking Japanese teenager Ryo Ishikawa has been warned to "be careful" about women by his country's former number one golfer Jumbo Ozaki.

New Zealand golf is littered with young players who have forsaken the amateur ranks to pursue a professional career, lured by the promise of a comfortable living, only to find the reality much different.

Some of U.S. golf star Tiger Woods 's colleagues say they are surprised he is leaving the tour indefinitely after disclosing his marital infidelity.

Japan's Ryo Ishikawa holds a plate after becoming the youngest-ever top money earner in the world following the last golf tournament of the season at the Nippon Series in Yomiuri Country Club in Tokyo yesterday.

Ryo Ishikawa and Rory McIlroy have had tremendous seasons respectively. McIlroy entered the Dubai World Championship with a great chance to become the youngest player to win the European Tour's money list title - supplanting Seve Ballesteros in 1976.

Major accomplishments for Adam Scott and Ryo Ishikawa on Sunday: Adam Scott won the Australian Open, notable on two counts: It's Scott's first professional victory in his home country; and it shows there's still life in Scott's golf game after all.

TEENAGER Ryo Ishikawa became the youngest winner of the Japanese Tour's money list after finishing tied 19th in the season-ending JT Cup on Sunday.

Ryo Ishikawa moved closer to his first money title when he turned in his first under-par round of the week and closest rival Yuta Ikeda remained a distant 12 shots off the pace after Saturday's third round at the season-ending Nippon Series JT Cup.

While tour veteran Shigeki Maruyama was moving into a one-shot lead, the showdown for the money title between Ryo Ishikawa and Yuta Ikeda continued to fizzle out.

Japan Herald Thursday 3rd December, 2009 Jeev Milkha Singh opened his defence of the title at the season-ending Nippon Series JT Cup golf tournament with a one-over 71, which placed him tied 10th and two shots off the four-man lead pack comprising Japan's Hiroyuki Fujita and Masaya Tomida, Australian Brendan Jones and South Korean Kim Kyung Tae.

A motorized cart carrying a TV crew plowed into a group of spectators at a golf tournament here Sunday, injuring four.

KOCHI: Japan's Komei Oda shot a seven-under 65 to beat back overnight co-leaders Ryo Ishikawa and Shigeki Maruyama and retain the Casio Open golf tournament yesterday.

KOCHI: Japan's teenage sensation Ryo Ishikawa shot a four-under 68 to tie for the three-way lead after the third round of the Casio Open golf tournament yesterday.

Both tours feature tight money-list races. Shinobu Moromizato, a 6-time JLPGA winner this season, has pulled within 2 strokes of 5-time winner Sakura Yokomine, who trails her by less than 6 million yen , while 5-time winner Chie Arimura, who needs to win the Ricoh Cup to take the title from them, is only 3 shots behind Yokomine and 4 behind leader ...

Italy's Edoardo Molinari has won the Dunlop Phoenix, beating Sweden's Robert Karlsson on the second playoff hole.

The Japan Golf Tour is in Miyazaki in southern Japan this week for the now time honoured Dunlop Phoenix tournament to be played at the Phoenix Golf Club .

Yasuharu Imano has defeated American Han Lee and Kenichi Kuboya to win the Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo tournament in Shizuoka.

Yasuharu Imano has shot a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Taiheiyo Masters.