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Masashi Ozaki
Personal information
Nickname Jumbo
Born 24 January 1947 (1947-01-24) (age 62)
Kaifu District, Tokushima, Japan
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 90 kg (200 lb; 14 st)
Nationality  Japan
Career
Turned professional 1970
Current tour(s) Japan Golf Tour
Professional wins 113
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour 94
Best results in Major Championships
The Masters T8: 1973
U.S. Open T6: 1989
Open Championship T10: 1979
PGA Championship T47: 1994
Achievements and awards
Japan Golf Tour
leading money winner		 1973, 1974, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

Masashi Ozaki (尾崎 将司 Ozaki Masashi ?, born (尾崎 正司) 24 January 1947) is a Japanese professional golfer. Ozaki is often known as Jumbo Ozaki (ジャンボ尾崎 Janbo Ozaki) on account of his height and length off the tee. He featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings for almost 200 weeks between 1989 and 1998.[1] He is the most successful player of all time on the Japan Golf Tour, having led the money list a record 12 times and won 94 tournaments, more than 40 more than the second highest tally. He built "AON Age" with his rivals Isao Aoki and Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima.

Ozaki was born in Kaifu District, Tokushima. He was a professional baseball pitcher from 1965 to 1967, but he turned to professional golf at the age of 23 and won the Japan Pro Golf Championship the following year.

Ozaki led the Japan Golf Tour in earnings in 1973-74, 1977, 1988-90, 1992, and 1994-98.

Ozaki finished 8th at The Masters in 1973 and finished 6th at the U.S. Open in 1989. He competed at the Masters 18 times. He played occasionally on the PGA Tour from 1972 to 2000 (96 tournaments, never more than seven in one year). His best finish was a T-4 at the 1993 Memorial Tournament.

Ozaki's brothers Tateo "Jet" and Naomichi "Joe" are also professional golfers. Now in his sixties, he still plays regularly on the Japan Golf Tour.

Ozaki played on the International Team in the 1996 Presidents Cup.

Contents

Professional wins (113)

Japan Golf Tour wins (94)

International wins (1)

Other wins (18)

Team appearances

This list may be incomplete.

  • Presidents Cup (International team): 1996
  • Four Tours World Championship: 1986 (winners), 1987, 1989

See also

References

  1. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking

External links

Preceded by
Ichiro Suzuki		 Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize Winner
1996		 Succeeded by
Hidetoshi Nakata
International Presidents Cup team – 1996
Australia Robert Allenby • Australia Steve Elkington • South Africa Ernie Els • South Africa David Frost • Zimbabwe Mark McNulty • New Zealand Frank Nobilo • Australia Greg Norman • Japan Masashi Ozaki • Australia Craig Parry • Zimbabwe Nick Price • Australia Peter Senior • Fiji Vijay Singh • Australia Peter Thomson (non-playing captain)







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