Yuna Nishimura
西村 優菜
Personal information
Born (2000-08-04) 4 August 2000
Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Kansai, Japan
Height150 cm (4 ft 11 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional2019
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 2023)
LPGA of Japan Tour (joined 2020)
Professional wins6
Number of wins by tour
LPGA of Japan Tour6
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT56: 2023
Women's PGA C'shipT39: 2023
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2020, 2022, 2023
Women's British OpenT21: 2023
Evian ChampionshipT15: 2022
Achievements and awards
LPGA of Japan Tour
Shiseido Beauty of the Year		2020–21

Yuna Nishimura (西村 優菜, Nishimura Yuna) (born 4 August 2000) is a Japanese professional golfer. After playing on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has six wins, she joined the LPGA Tour in 2023.[1]

Early life and amateur career

Nishimura attended Osaka University of Commerce High School.[1] As an amateur, she finished 6th at the 2016 Japan Women's Open, four strokes behind winner Nasa Hataoka. In 2017, she was runner-up at the Japan Junior Championship and individually at the Junior Golf World Cup.[2]

In 2018, she was runner-up in the Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific and individually at the Queen Sirikit Cup, both times behind Atthaya Thitikul. She led her team to a win at the 2018 Junior Golf World Cup and a runner-up finish at the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy in Ireland, behind the United States. In 2019, she won the Riversdale Cup in Australia.[2]

Professional career

Nishimura turned professional in November 2019 and joined the LPGA of Japan Tour in January 2020. She recorded four victories in the combined 2020–21 LPGA of Japan Tour season and rose into the top-100 in the Women's World Golf Rankings after her maiden win at Mitsubishi Electric/Hisako Higuchi Ladies Golf Tournament. That secured a spot in her first major, the 2020 U.S. Women's Open.[3]

In 2021, she won three tournaments and in 2022 a further two, to rise to No. 34 in the world rankings and finish second on the 2022 JLPGA money list. She was in contention at the 2022 Evian Championship where she was tied 5th after the first round and ultimately finished tied 15th.

Nishimura earned her card for the 2023 LPGA Tour through qualifying school.[4] In her rookie season, her best result was a tie for 3rd at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship and she finished 48th in the rankings.[5]

Amateur wins

Source:[2]

Professional wins (6)

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (6)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 1 Nov 2020 Mitsubishi Electric/Hisako Higuchi Ladies Golf Tournament 69-71-65=205 −11 1 stroke Japan Minami Katsu
2 9 May 2021 World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup 69-65-70=204 −12 3 strokes Japan Mone Inami
Japan Momoko Osato
Japan Reika Usui
3 19 Sep 2021 Sumitomo Life Vitality Ladies Tokai Classic 71-63=134 −10 2 strokes Japan Momoko Osato
Japan Nozomi Uetake
4 26 Sep 2021 Miyagi TV Cup Dunlop Ladies Open Golf Tournament 66-65-70=201 −15 3 strokes Japan Saki Asai
5 19 Jun 2022 Nichirei Ladies 65-68-66=199 −17 3 strokes Japan Haruka Morita
6 7 Nov 2022 Nippon Ham Ladies Classic 67-67-66-70=270 −18 1 stroke Japan Mao Nozawa

Tournaments in bold denotes major tournaments in LPGA of Japan Tour.

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament2020202120222023
Chevron Championship T56
Women's PGA Championship T39
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT
The Evian Championship NT T15 CUT
Women's British Open CUT T21
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Member Guide: Yuna Nishimura". LPGA of Japan. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Yuna Nishimura". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Player Bio: Yuna Nishimura". USGA. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Yuna Nishimura". LPGA Tour. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Nishimura ties third as fellow LPGA rookie Ryu wins in Arkansas". The Japan Times. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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