From the Arabian gulf to the the American West , last week saw many of the world's top golfers playing in places both arid and sun-drenched. Such was definitely not the case for Ryo Ishikawa. Instead of a week in Abu Dhabi or Phoenix, the Japanese golfer hit the snow covered hills of Yuzawa, a winter resort in the mountains north of Tokyo. The intense physical training of cross country camp has become a annual tradition for the Japan's top ranked golfer, and includes a number of rigorous...Read Full Story
The Japan Tour plays the Casio World Open this week at the Kochi Kuroshio Country Club in Kochi in Fukushima, the fourth of the main islands of Japan.
The event has quite a history dating back to 1981 when Lee Trevino was victorious and although it has struggled at times in its history it now lays claim to offering the equal richest purse on the Japan Golf Tour.
Ryo Ishikawa is back from his trials and tribulations at the Presidents Cup and will start as the favourite on the basis of his...Read Full Story
Yonex Golf EZONE 380cc Ryo Ishikawa Driver
At the 2011 golf show one of the most highly anticipated releases was the Yonex Ezone Series . Up until now Yonex was known as more of a game improvement brand. That all changed when they signed Ryo Ishikawa, since then they have been in development with the young phenom and top sporting good designers to produce golf clubs for the professional and low to mid amateur player.
Two clubs really stood out at the Yonex booth, the EZONE 380cc and...Read Full Story
After a few days away from the blog and entertaining Tourspecgolfer (Chris) and Tourspecgirl (Jacquelyn) here in Japan, its time to get back to blog posting. We did have a great time and a round at Hirakawa Country Club on Friday which I think Chris will be reporting about.
So on to Yonex at the Japan Golf Fair. Nearly 3 years ago when Yonex signed a high school freshman named Ryo Ishikawa to a 10 million dollar contract, I certainly had my doubts. 3 years later, Yonex has reaped the...Read Full Story
LA JOLLA, Calif.--Ryo Ishikawa fired a second-round 69 on Friday to qualify for weekend action at the Farmer's Insurance Open. Ishikawa finished eight strokes back of leader Kyle Stanley. Ishikawa, playing on the shorter North Course, shot four birdies ...
LA JOLLA, California — Ryo Ishikawa closed with an even-par 72 Sunday to finish tied for 13th place at the Farmers Insurance Open. Brandt Snedeker earned his third career PGA Tour victory by winning a playoff against fellow American Kyle Stanley ...
The vagaries of the way the Masters puts its field together has left one of golf's rising stars outside of automatically qualifying for next year's tournament. That's thanks to a poor showing in by Ryo Ishikawa in Thailand last weekend, where he finished T58 in the Thailand Golf Championships. That left him finishing 2011 at #51 in the OWGR, and outside of the automatic qualifiers for Augusta. Had Ishikawa finished 37th or...
LA JOLLA — The last time he was here, Ryo Ishikawa remembers being impressed with the competition around him. There was also pressure — lots of it. That was at the Junior World Golf Championships back in the summer of 2007, when the Japanese teen ...
Ryo Ishikawa has never started his season this early, playing in the Sony Open for the first time. It's the start of what should be a long year, even by the Japanese star's standards. Ishikawa is interested in taking up U.S. PGA Tour membership. He is one of the biggest draws, especially on the U.S. West Coast, and he already has received exemptions to the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, the Northern Trust Open at Riviera, along with...
Resize TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese schoolboy Ryo Ishikawa fired an opening 66 to get a head start on U.S. Masters champion Trevor Immelman at the Taiheiyo Masters on Thursday. The 17-year-old, who won his first tournament as a professional earlier ...
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Ryo Ishikawa (ç³å·ãé¼; born 17 September 1991), also known by the name "Hanikami Åji", is a Japanese professional golfer. On 20 May 2007, Ishikawa became the youngest winner ...