Harukyo Nomura (; ; born 25 November 1992) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Having a Korean mother and Japanese father, Nomura moved to South Korea at the age of five and lived in Seoul until she graduated from . In 2011, she selected Japanese nationality.
Career Nomura started to play golf at age of 11, and in 2007 she won the Japan Junior Golf Championship for girls 12–14 years of age. Nomura was the low amateur at the 2009 Japan Women's Open. She turned pro in December 2010 after qualifying for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt, finishing tied for 39th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn Priority List Category 20 for the 2011 season. She qualified for the 2011 U.S. Women's Open through one of the sectional qualifying tournaments. Her first professional victory came on the LPGA Futures Tour in April 2011 at the Daytona Beach Invitational. She followed this with a win on the LPGA of Japan Tour in May 2011 and her third victory came on the LPGA of Korea Tour in 2015. In 2013 she was runner-up at the Mizuno Classic on the LPGA Tour.
On 21 February 2016, Nomura held off world number one Lydia Ko to win her first LPGA tournament, the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open, the first Japanese victory on the LPGA Tour since Mika Miyazato won the Safeway Classic in 2012. With the victory, Nomura moved from 67th to 50th in the Women's World Golf Rankings and into second on the 2016 LPGA Tour Money List.
Professional wins (6) LPGA Tour (3) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner-up120 Feb 2016ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open69-68-70-65=272−163 strokes Lydia Ko224 Apr 2016Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic65-70-71-73=279−94 strokes Lee-Anne Pace330 Apr 2017Volunteers of America Texas Shootout68-65-72-76=281−3Playoff Cristie Kerr Co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG Tour.
LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0) No.YearTournamentOpponentResult12017Volunteers of America Texas Shootout Cristie KerrWon with birdie on sixth extra hole
LPGA of Japan Tour (1) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner-up122 May 2011Chukyo TV Bridgestone Ladies Open66-69-68=203−133 strokes Kaori Aoyama
LPGA of Korea Tour (1) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner-up16 Sep 2015Hanwha Finance Classic73-65-74-75=287−1Playoff Bae Seon-woo
LPGA Futures Tour (1) 2011 Daytona Beach Invitational
Results in LPGA majors Results not in chronological order. Tournament 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020ANA InspirationT64CUTT26T70CUTCUTCUTWomen's PGA ChampionshipCUTT36T48T5363T36CUTWD73U.S. Women's OpenT64CUTCUTT11T33CUTThe Evian Championship ^ CUTT348T32NTWomen's British OpenT45CUTT17T69T22 Tournament 2021 2022 2023ANA InspirationCUTWomen's PGA ChampionshipCUTU.S. Women's OpenT64The Evian Championship ^Women's British Open ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
CUT = missed the half-way cut WD = withdrew NT = no tournament T = tied
Summary Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts madeANA Inspiration 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 6U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 4The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 3Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 4Totals 0 0 0 0 1 4 34 20 Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (2015 Evian – 2017 Evian) Longest streak of top-10s – 1
Team appearances Professional International Crown (representing Japan): 2016
References
External links
Profile on Seoul Sisters site