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Mika Miyazato ((日本語:宮里美香), born 10 October 1989) is a professional golfer from Japan who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. ==Career== As an amateur, Miyazato won the 2004 Japan Amateur Women's Championship at the age of 14, and was the youngest player to win the event. In the 2006 Asian Games, she won silver medals in the individual and team competitions. Miyazato turned professional in December 2008, after finishing in a tie for 12th in the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, a finish that gave her exempt status on the LPGA Tour. The medalist was Stacy Lewis, with Michelle Wie in a tie for seventh. In her first season as a professional at age 19, she had fourth-place finishes at the LPGA Corning Classic and Wegmans LPGA tournaments in 2009.〔 Miyazato's first professional victory came at the Japan Women's Open Golf Championship in October 2010. That year, she also had five top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour, including two third-place results, and was 17th on the money list with more than $600,000 in earnings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=LPGA )〕 In 2011, Miyazato held the 36-hole lead at the U.S. Women's Open and finished fifth. She had three other top-10s during the season, and won nearly $600,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=LPGA )〕 Despite a slow start, 2012 was Miyazato's best season. After missing three successive cuts in the early spring, she lost in the first round of the Sybase Match Play Championship, and did not have a top twenty finish through May.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=LPGA )〕 Miyazato rebounded the next week in early June with a tie for third at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Atlantic City. The following week, she tied for second at the LPGA Championship, two strokes behind winner Shanshan Feng.〔 At her next start at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, Miyazato again tied for second. After two additional top ten finishes at the U.S. Women's Open and Jamie Farr Toledo Classic,〔 she won her first LPGA Tour event in August at the Safeway Classic in Oregon. For the season, she earned more than $1 million and had nine top-10 finishes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mika Miyazato Stats: 2012 )〕 In October 2013, Miyazato won her second Japan Women's Open title. With a birdie on the last hole of the tournament, she defeated Erika Kikuchi and Miki Saiki by one stroke. Miyazato made less than half of her 2012 earnings during the 2013 LPGA Tour season, with a pair of top-10s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mika Miyazato Stats: 2013 )〕 Her earnings on the LPGA dipped to about $105,000 in the 2014 season.〔 Although both are from Okinawa, she is not related to fellow LPGA Tour player Ai Miyazato. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mika Miyazato」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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