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The Japanese winner of the Masters in 2021 Hideki Matsuyama will not have had an easy 2022 season. Saturday in the middle of the 3rd round he was again forced to withdraw from the tournament due to neck pain.
Hideki Matsuyama, results
Although he started 2022 with a sparkling performance at the Sony Open in Hawaii, the rest of Japanese superstar Hideki Matsuyama's 2022 season is one long string of disappointments.
Trouble started in March when he withdrew from the Players Championship in Ponte Vedra for back problems. Three weeks later, a week before defending his title in Augusta, it was the Japanese man's neck that prevented him from playing the Valero Texas Open.
Unfortunately the streak didn't end there and after a disastrous first round (with a terrible quadruple bogey) at the 3M Open in July, he was once again forced to retire. Still in trouble with his neck, he then withdrew from the 1st FedEx Cup Playoffs tournament in early August in Memphis.
On Saturday Matsuyama was +4 after 9 holes on the Memorial Park course in Houston when he decided to head to the clubhouse and let Canadian Adam Svensson finish alone. Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese golfer, mainly active on the PGA Tour and Japan Golf Tour.
He is the first Japanese in the history of sport to win a men's major, thanks to his triumph at the Masters 2021. Born in the city of Matsuyama, he began playing golf at the age of four under the guidance of his father. He completes his education at Sendai's Tōhoku Fukushi University, winning the 2010 and 2011 editions of the Asian Amateur Golf Championships.
This result qualifies him by right to the 2011 Masters (the first Japanese amateur to do so), where he wins the Silver Cup [4] and is the only amateur golfer in the competition. The following week he finished third at the Japan Open Golf Championship, one of the stages of the Japan Golf Tour.
In 2011 he represented Japan at the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade, where he won gold in both individual and team competition - together with Fujimoto, Kobukuro and Tomimura. After defending the title at the Asian Amateur Championships, he wins the Taiheiyo Masters, another stop on the Japan Golf Tour, in November. [8] His success at an amateur level earned him position No. 1 in the world amateur ranking in August 2012.