Takumi Kanaya Masters Finishes

Now making his second Masters appearance, Takumi Kanaya debuted at Augusta National in 2019 as an amateur, finishing T58.

Kanaya, 23, of Japan earned his first Masters invitation by winning the 2018 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

He is one of three Japanese winners of the event in this year’s field, joining the most recent champion, Keita Nakajima, and 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama.

A former top-ranked amateur, Kanaya turned pro in 2020 and earned his 2022 Masters invitation thanks to his top-50 world ranking at the end of 2021.

Kanaya had a successful amateur career, winning the 2015 Japan Amateur Championship and the 2018 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

The latter gave him entry to the Masters and the Open Championship in 2019. He played in a number of representative matches, including the 2018 Eisenhower Trophy where he had the second-best individual score.

Kanaya won team gold medals at the 2017 Summer Universiade and at the 2018 Asian Games. He was world-ranked number 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 55 weeks, winning the Mark H. McCormack Medal for 2020.