Ai Miyazato
Ai Miyazato was born in Higashi, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on June 19th, 1985 and is the Golfer. At the age of 38, Ai Miyazato biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ai Miyazato (born 19 June 1985) is a former Japanese professional golfer who competed on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA).
She was the top-ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings on three occasions in 2010.
Early life, family and amateur career
Miyazato was born in Higashi, Japan, on June 19, 1985. Her father and brothers are both professional golfers. Ysaku's older brother has won seven times on the Japan Golf Tour and participated in the 2018 Masters Tournament.
In 2003, she won a professional event on the LPGA of Japan Tour, the Dunlop Ladies Open in Miyagi Prefecture, where she was attending high school at the time.
Professional career
Miyazato won five tournaments in her rookie season on the JLPGA Tour in 2004. She played for Japan alongside Rui Kitada in February 2005 and won the inaugural Women's World Cup of Golf. She won six events on the JLPGA Tour in 2005 and was the second ranked player on the JLPGA Tour, behind Yuri Fudoh.
Miyazato made history by winning the Japan Open Championship at the age of 20 in 2005, becoming the youngest participant on the JLPGA Tour to win a major. The final round of the Miyazato Revited the JLPGA Tour following Ayako Okamoto's retirement, over 32,000 spectators, the most crowded gallery to attend a JLPGA tournament ever.
Miyazato won her tour card for the 2006 season after being able to qualify for the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in Florida in December 2005. In four of the five rounds, she was under-parity, and 12 strokes ahead of her nearest competitor, which set a new record for the largest margin of victory. She returned to Japan on December 15th, becoming the first Japanese woman to participate in a domestic men's professional tournament, though she did not qualify for the final rounds.
Miyazato won the Evian Masters in France in 2009, defeating Sophie Gustafson on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff for the first time.
Miyazato won four of the first nine official tournaments on the LPGA Tour in 2010, and the Women's World Golf Rankings ranked them at number one on June 21. Cristie Kerr, who was on the job for three weeks before Miyazato regained the position by a slim margin of 0.0006 average points on 19 July.
Miyazato defeated Kerr and Na Yeon Choi in August for the fifth time in 2010 at the Safeway Classic in Oregon. She regained the top spot in the world rankings, having been briefly defeated by Kerr, but then gave it to Kerr on October 25th.
Despite only competing in two events on that tour, Miyazato won the Order of Merit on the Ladies European Tour in 2011 (LET), the LPGA's co-sponsored tournaments. There are no minimum tournament requirements for membership in the LET, and her second victory at the Evian Masters, which purse is much larger than most LET contests, has earned her enough to top the list.
Miyazato won her eighth LPGA tournament in Hawaii in April 2012, four strokes ahead of runners-up Azahara Muoz and Meena Lee.
Miyazato has signed contracts with Suntory, Bridgestone Corporation, Japan Airlines, Oakley, Honda, Hisamitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, and NTT Docomo.
Kiyoshi Miyazato and Ysaku Miyazato, two of her elder siblings, are both professional golfers. Mika Miyazato, a fellow Japanese LPGA Tour player, is not related to her.
Miyazato will retire at the end of the season, according to the Kyodo News Agency on May 27, 2017. The 2017 Evian Championship was her last tournament.
Miyazato is the first golfer to reach the world No. 1 ranking without ever winning a major. Her best finish was third three times.
LPGA Tour career summary
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