Haru Nomura

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Haru Nomura
Personal information
Full nameHarukyo Nomura (
LPGA Tour
Professional wins6
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour3
Ladies European Tour1
LPGA of Japan Tour1
LPGA of Korea Tour1
ALPG Tour1
Epson Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
(wins: 1)
Chevron ChampionshipT26: 2016
Women's PGA C'shipT36: 2012, 2017
U.S. Women's OpenT11: 2016
Women's British OpenT17: 2016
Evian Championship8th: 2016

Harukyo Nomura (Japanese: 野村敏京; Korean: 문민경; born 25 November 1992) is a Japanese female professional golfer.

Having a Korean mother and Japanese father, Nomura moved to South Korea at the age of five and lived in Seoul until she graduated from the Myongji High School. In 2011, she selected Japanese nationality.[1]

Career

Nomura started to play golf at age of 11, and in 2007 she won the Japan Junior Golf Championship for girls 12–14 years of age. Nomura was the low amateur at the 2009

Mizuno Classic
on the LPGA Tour.

On 21 February 2016, Nomura held off world number one

Safeway Classic in 2012.[3][4] With the victory, Nomura moved from 67th to 50th in the Women's World Golf Rankings and into second on the 2016 LPGA Tour Money List.[5]

Professional wins (6)

LPGA Tour (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 20 Feb 2016
ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open[1]
 69-68-70-65=272 −16 3 strokes New Zealand Lydia Ko
2 24 Apr 2016 Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic 65-70-71-73=279 −9 4 strokes South Africa Lee-Anne Pace
3 30 Apr 2017
Volunteers of America Texas Shootout
 68-65-72-76=281 −3 Playoff United States Cristie Kerr

ALPG Tour
.

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2017
Volunteers of America Texas Shootout
 United States Cristie Kerr Won with birdie on sixth extra hole

LPGA of Japan Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 22 May 2011 Chukyo TV Bridgestone Ladies Open 66-69-68=203 −13 3 strokes Japan Kaori Aoyama

LPGA of Korea Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 6 Sep 2015 Hanwha Finance Classic 73-65-74-75=287 −1 Playoff South Korea Bae Seon-woo

LPGA Futures Tour (1)

  • Daytona Beach Invitational

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
ANA Inspiration
 T64 CUT T26 T70 CUT CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT T36 T48 T53 63 T36 CUT WD 73
U.S. Women's Open T64 CUT CUT T11 T33 CUT
The Evian Championship ^ CUT T34 8 T32 NT
Women's British Open T45 CUT T17 T69 T22
Tournament 2021 2022 2023
ANA Inspiration
 CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT
U.S. Women's Open T64
The Evian Championship ^
Women's British Open

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.

  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration
 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 6
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 4
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 3
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 4
Totals 0 0 0 0 1 4 34 20
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (2015 Evian – 2017 Evian)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1

Team appearances

Professional

References

  1. ^ "18歳新星・野村敏京 国内デビュー戦で完全V!" (in Japanese).
  2. ^ "Haru Nomura Bio". LPGA. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Haru Nomura Holds Off World No. 1 Lydia Ko To Win Her First Career LPGA Tournament in Australia". LPGA. 21 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Haru Nomura edges No. 1 Lydia Ko to win Women's Australian Open". ESPN. Associated Press. 21 February 2016.
  5. ^ "2016 ISPS Handa Womens Australian Open In The Winners Circle with Haru Nomura". LPGA. 21 February 2016.

External links

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