Here is all you need to know about Japanese profesional golfer Keita Nakajima including his age, career, bio and height
At the $2.25 million 57th Hero Indian Open, held last week at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon, Keita Nakajima finished his streak of start to finish play with a final round score of 1 over par 73 and a tournament total of 17 under 271.
He finished four strokes ahead of a three-person tie for second place that included Sweden’s Sebastian Soderberg, American Joannes Vreeman, and American Veer Ahlawat, all of whom finished at 13 under 275.
Who is Japanese golfer Keita Nakajima, bio, age, height and golf career
Keita Nakajima moves to -20 and leads by six 🤯#HIO24 pic.twitter.com/TXySGiGanX
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) March 31, 2024
With his victory at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters last month, Nakajima became the third Japanese winner in less than six months and the fifth overall in DP World Tour history, following Ryo Hisatsune at the Open de France previous season. The former world number-one amateur is also Japan’s fourth Indian Open champion.
Who is Keita Nakajima?
Keita Nakajima is a professional golfer from Japan who was born on June 24, 2000 in Saitama, Japan. The 23-year-old stands 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) tall.
A look at Keita Nakajima’s career so far
At the age of six, Nakajima began playing golf. Throughout his amateur career, he finished second in the Japan Amateur Championship in 2015, 2017, and 2018, then went on to win the Australian Amateur and the Japan Amateur Championship in 2021.
Keita had an incredibly successful amateur career, spending a record 87 weeks at the top of the World Amateur Golf Ranking. While still an amateur, he also took home the Panasonic Open title on the Japan Golf Tour.
In the fall of 2022, Nakajima became a professional. At the Zozo Championship in 2022, he made his professional PGA Tour debut and finished T12. In his debut season on the Japan Golf Tour in 2023, Nakajima claimed three victories.
In addition to winning Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year, he also led the earnings list last year. Nakajima won the Hero Indian Open in March 2024, going up-and-down by four strokes to record his maiden triumph on the European Tour.
Nakajima set a record with 87 weeks atop the World Amateur Golf Ranking between 2020 and 2022 and became the first men’s player to win the Mark H. McCormack medal twice as the world’s top men’s amateur golfer in 2021 and 2022.
Keita Nakajima’s family
Not much is known about Keita Nakajima’s family however, he once told all of the members of his family play golf.