# Shingo Katayama

Shingo Katayama (Japanese: 片山 晋呉, born 31 January 1973) is a Japanese golfer.

## Early life and professional career

Katayama was born in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. He turned professional in 1995 and has played full-time on the Japan Golf Tour since 1997. He topped the Japan Golf Tour money list five times: 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008. He has won 31 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking fifth on the career wins list and ranking second on the career money list with over ¥2,000,000,000.
Katayama has played in several major championships and World Golf Championships events, and his most notable achievement outside Japan is his tied fourth-place finish at the 2001 PGA Championship. He played the 3rd round with the champion David Toms. He was called "Cowboy Shingo" due to his distinctive cowboy-style hat. Placing fourth with a 10-under par at the 2009 Masters, he tied Toshimitsu Izawa (2001) for the best showing of a Japanese golfer at the tournament.
Katayama also featured in the top thirty of the Official World Golf Ranking, reaching a highest ranking of 23rd in December 2007.
Katayama rarely played on the U.S. based PGA Tour, playing the majority of his golf in Japan. His best finish outside of Japan, (excluding majors) came in 2006 at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship where he defeated Colin Montgomerie, 3 and 2, in the second round en route to finishing T9.

## Professional wins (35)
### Japan Golf Tour wins (31)

* Legend
* Flagship events (2)
* Japan majors (7)
* Other Japan Golf Tour (24)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
| 1 | 9 Aug 1998 | Sanko Grand Summer Championship | −14 (67-66-68-73=274) | Playoff | Kazuhiko Hosokawa |
| 2 | 6 Jun 1999 | JCB Classic Sendai | −16 (69-63-69-67=268) | Playoff | Shigemasa Higaki |
| 3 | 23 Apr 2000 | Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open | −4 (70-70-70-70=280) | 2 strokes | Lin Keng-chi, Peter Senior, Andre Stolz |
| 4 | 21 May 2000 | Munsingwear Open KSB Cup | −16 (68-65-66-73=272) | 1 stroke | Nobuhito Sato |
| 5 | 19 Nov 2000 | Dunlop Phoenix Tournament | −19 (65-66-66-68=265) | 4 strokes | Bob May |
| 6 | 3 Dec 2000 | Golf Nippon Series JT Cup | −9 (69-67-67-68=271) | 3 strokes | Hirofumi Miyase |
| 7 | 10 Dec 2000 | Fancl Open in Okinawa | −11 (66-69-69-73=277) | 2 strokes | Toru Taniguchi |
| 8 | 11 Mar 2001 | Token Corporation Cup | −8 (69-63-73=205)* | 2 strokes | Tsuneyuki Nakajima |
| 9 | 22 Apr 2001 | Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open (2) | −13 (64-70-70-67=271) | 6 strokes | Hajime Meshiai |
| 10 | 9 Sep 2001 | Suntory Open | −16 (66-68-68-66=268) | 3 strokes | Darren Clarke, Keiichiro Fukabori, Nobuo Serizawa |
| 11 | 15 Sep 2002 | Suntory Open (2) | −15 (68-68-68-65=269) | 4 strokes | Kōki Idoki, Yasuharu Imano |
| 12 | 8 Dec 2002 | Golf Nippon Series JT Cup (2) | −19 (62-66-66-67=261) | 9 strokes | David Smail |
| 13 | 18 May 2003 | Japan PGA Championship | −17 (71-66-66-68=271) | 1 stroke | Hur Suk-ho |
| 14 | 2 Nov 2003 | ABC Championship | −23 (64-69-68-64=265) | 9 strokes | Katsumasa Miyamoto |
| 15 | 2 May 2004 | The Crowns | −16 (65-64-63-72=264) | 2 strokes | Paul Sheehan |
| 16 | 11 Jul 2004 | Woodone Open Hiroshima | −22 (70-63-70-63=266) | 5 strokes | Ryuichi Oda |
| 17 | 16 Oct 2005 | Japan Open Golf Championship | −2 (71-73-70-68=282) | 2 strokes | Ryoken Kawagishi, Craig Parry |
| 18 | 30 Oct 2005 | ABC Championship (2) | −14 (70-65-70-69=274) | 2 strokes | Dinesh Chand |
| 19 | 30 Apr 2006 | The Crowns (2) | −18 (63-67-62-70=262) | 2 strokes | Nozomi Kawahara |
| 20 | 3 Sep 2006 | Fujisankei Classic | −10 (66-71-68-69=274) | 3 strokes | Liang Wenchong |
| 21 | 29 Oct 2006 | ABC Championship (3) | −17 (71-70-68-62=271) | Playoff | Yang Yong-eun |
| 22 | 1 Jul 2007 | UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills | −9 (69-68-67-67=271) | 1 stroke | Naoya Takemoto |
| 23 | 21 Oct 2007 | Bridgestone Open | −18 (68-67-67-68=270) | 1 stroke | Steven Conran, Keiichiro Fukabori, Tomohiro Kondo |
| 24 | 18 May 2008 | Japan PGA Championship (2) | −23 (67-66-65-67=265) | 6 strokes | Liang Wenchong |
| 25 | 19 Oct 2008 | Japan Open Golf Championship (2) | −1 (68-72-72-71=283) | 4 strokes | Ryo Ishikawa |
| 26 | 16 Nov 2008 | Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters | −16 (67-68-68-69=272) | Playoff | Yasuharu Imano |
| 27 | 6 Oct 2013 | Coca-Cola Tokai Classic | −7 (74-76-64-67=281) | Playoff | Hidemasa Hoshino, Satoshi Tomiyama |
| 28 | 30 Nov 2014 | Casio World Open | −17 (70-64-72-65=271) | 3 strokes | Satoshi Tomiyama |
| 29 | 15 Nov 2015 | Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters (2) | −14 (64-68-70=202)* | 1 stroke | Thanyakon Khrongpha |
| 30 | 30 Oct 2016 | Mynavi ABC Championship (4) | −12 (67-68-73-68=276) | 1 stroke | Shintaro Kobayashi |
| 31 | 10 Sep 2017 | ISPS Handa Match Play | 3 and 2 | 3 and 2 | Ryu Hyun-woo |
*Note: Tournament shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (5–3)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
| 1 | 1998 | Sanko Grand Summer Championship | Kazuhiko Hosokawa | Won with par on third extra hole |
| 2 | 1999 | JCB Classic Sendai | Shigemasa Higaki | Won with birdie on third extra hole |
| 3 | 2002 | Japan PGA Championship | Kenichi Kuboya | Lost to birdie on second extra hole |
| 4 | 2006 | ABC Championship | Yang Yong-eun | Won with birdie on second extra hole |
| 5 | 2008 | Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters | Yasuharu Imano | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 6 | 2012 | Coca-Cola Tokai Classic | Ryu Hyun-woo | Lost to par on first extra hole |
| 7 | 2013 | Coca-Cola Tokai Classic | Hidemasa Hoshino, Satoshi Tomiyama | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 8 | 2015 | Top Cup Tokai Classic | Kim Hyung-sung | Lost to birdie on second extra hole |

### Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

* 1993 Mito Green Open (as an amateur)
* 1995 Korakuen Cup (5th)

### Other wins (1)

* 2016 Legend Charity Pro-Am

### Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (1)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
| 1 | 1 Jun 2024 | Sumaida Cup Senior Golf Tournament | −15 (68-64-69=201) | 1 stroke | Thaworn Wiratchant |

## Results in major championships

| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Masters Tournament | | | T40 | CUT | T37 | | T33 | T27 | T44 | CUT | 4 |
| U.S. Open | | | CUT | T35 | | | CUT | CUT | T36 | CUT | |
| The Open Championship | 71 | CUT | CUT | T50 | T34 | | | CUT | | | |
| PGA Championship | | CUT | T4 | CUT | CUT | T62 | T23 | | T50 | | CUT |
| Tournament | 2010 | 2013 |
| Masters Tournament | CUT | |
| U.S. Open | | |
| The Open Championship | | T44 |
| PGA Championship | | |
CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied

### Summary

| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
| Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
| U.S. Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| The Open Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
| PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 16 |
* Most consecutive cuts made – 3 (2007 Masters – 2007 PGA)
* Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice times)

## Results in The Players Championship

| Tournament | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| The Players Championship | CUT | | | | T70 |
CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" indicates a tie for a place

## Results in World Golf Championships

| Tournament | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Championship | | | 67 | | | 72 | T73 | T46 |
| Match Play | R64 | R64 | R64 | R64 | R16 | R64 | R64 | R32 |
| Invitational | | | | | | T46 | | 72 |
| Champions | | | | | | | | T33 |
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play "T" = tied Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

## Team appearances

Amateur
* Eisenhower Trophy (representing Japan): 1994
Professional
* Dynasty Cup (representing Japan): 2005
* EurAsia Cup (representing Asia): 2016