Ryo Ishikawa: The golf player of Japan which became the youngest pro golf historical prize acquisition king.
There is a big golf boom in Japan, and one of the reasons is that there is many young and attractive female golf players.
Well, it's not only female players that have been attracting golf fans in Japan.
石川遼[Ryo Ishikawa]: He is only a 18-year-old high-school student.
He began to play golf at the age of six.
In his junior high-school days, he has always come around the top in nationwide tournaments.
The person supporting him is his father.
They has a relationship of mutual trust.
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In 2007, soon after he entered high school, he played in a professional golf tournament as an amateur and won the tournament.
And following the shy smile he gave during a TV interview after the victory, he was nicknamed "はにかみ王子(Hanikami Oji)", or the "Shy Prince." Since then, he has been one of the cutest names in the Japanese sports world.
In January 2008, he became the youngest-ever professional in Japanese golf history at the age of 16.
Then, at the end of 2008, he became the youngest player to earn total prize money of more than 100 million yen.
A few months later, in April 2009, he received a special invitation from the Masters Tournament in the U.S. Although he missed the cut, he was the youngest Japanese to participate in the Masters.
At the end of June, he won another golf tournament and became the youngest player to qualify for the British Open which starts in July.
After breaking all kinds of "youngest-ever" records, Ishikawa is now 18 and a senior in high school.
Naturally, people are now interested in what he's going to do after graduation.
Will he enter university and try to balance study with golf, or will he just devote himself to golf?
After all, he said recently. "I don't go to the college."
We are interested in how good he's going to look as he grows up!
This is a video of the Japan championship:Mizuno open YOMIURI classics that he won.
Other videos concerning Ryo Ishikawa are here.
Official homepage of Ryo Ishikawa
By Hararie
