Haruo Yasuda

Haruo Yasuda
Personal information
Born	(1943-01-19) 19 January 1943 (age 81) Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Sporting nationality	Japan
Career
Status	Professional
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Asia Golf Circuit
Professional wins	17
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	6
Other	11
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT: 1981

Haruo Yasuda (安田 春雄, Yasuda Haruo, born 19 January 1943) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Yasuda played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning six times. He also won several pre-tour events in Japan and on the Asia Golf Circuit.^[1] In 1968 he nearly won the Thailand Open but double-bogeyed the final hole giving Australian Randall Vines the win.^[2]

Professional wins (17)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	21 Jul 1974	Tokyo Charity Classic	−13 (69-68-69-69=275)	Playoff	Takashi Murakami
2	20 Jun 1976	Tohoku Classic	−11 (74-69-67-67=277)	Playoff	Fumio Tanaka
3	4 Jun 1978	Tohoku Classic (2)	−5 (73-66-73-71=283)	1 stroke	Shinsaku Maeda, Masashi Ozaki
4	18 May 1980	Japan PGA Match-Play Championship	2 and 1		Tsuneyuki Nakajima
5	8 Jun 1980	Tohoku Classic (3)	−15 (66-70-71-66=273)	2 strokes	Shinsaku Maeda
6	27 May 1984	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	−13 (68-68-69-70=275)	4 strokes	Kouichi Inoue, Yoshitaka Yamamoto

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (2–4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1974	Tokyo Charity Classic	Takashi Murakami	Won with birdie on first extra hole
2	1976	Tohoku Classic	Fumio Tanaka	Won with par on first extra hole
3	1976	KBC Augusta	Graham Marsh	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
4	1976	Japan PGA Championship	Shichiro Enomoto, Hsieh Min-Nan, Seiichi Kanai	Kanai won with par on third extra hole Hsieh and Yasuda eliminated by par on first hole
5	1979	Aso National Park Open	Takashi Kurihara, Shinsaku Maeda
6	1983	KSB Setonaikai Open	Kenji Sogame	Lost after concession before playoff

Asia Golf Circuit wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	2 Mar 1969	Philippine Open	−9 (68-71-71-69=279)	1 stroke	Ben Arda, Hsieh Min-Nan
2	7 Mar 1971	Singapore Open	−7 (69-70-69-69=277)	2 strokes	Takaaki Kono, Peter Thomson
3	25 Apr 1971	Yomiuri International	−6 (71-66-72-73=282)	Playoff	Kosaku Shimada
4	9 Apr 1972	Taiwan Open	−4 (68-73-70-73=284)	Playoff	Kuo Chie-Hsiung

Asia Golf Circuit playoff record (2–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	1971	Yomiuri International	Kosaku Shimada	Won with bogey on third extra hole
2	1972	Taiwan Open	Kuo Chie-Hsiung	Won with birdie on fifth extra hole

Japanese circuit wins (7)

• 1968 Chunichi Crowns
• 1969 Kanto Open, Kanto Pro Championship
• 1970 Chunichi Crowns, Dunlop Tournament
• 1972 Golf Digest Tournament, Shizuoka Open

Team appearances

• World Cup (representing Japan): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1980

References

1. "No-risk Yasuda is Open golf champion". The Straits Times. 8 March 1971. p. 27.
2. "Thai golf title to Vines". The Canberra Times. 18 March 1968. p. 12. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

External links

• Haruo Yasuda at the Japan Golf Tour official site