western lpgawins majorwins article_title prowins year birth_date wusopen wghofid extour nabisco name titleholders fullname dumaurier alpgwins birth_place height award lpga nickname wghofyear yearpro jlpgawins otherwins
dnp 2 1 hisako higuchi
 73 1968 , 1973 , 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1978 , , 1979 1969 , 1970 , 1971 , 1972 13 october 1945 t13 : 1976 hisako-chako-higuchi lpga of japan tour lpga tour t3 : 1975 , 1976 hisako higuchi 樋口久子 dnp hisako higuchi dnp 1 kawagoe , saitama , japan 1.63 0 lpga of japan tour leading money winner '' ` won '' ' : 1977 chako 2003 1967 69 1
hisako higuchi

hisako `` chako '' higuchi -lrb- , born 13 october 1945 in kawagoe , saitama -rrb- is a japanese professional golfer .
higuchi won the lpga championship on 12 june 1977 , making her the first asian-born player to win a major championship for either men or women .
-lrb- no asian-born player would win a men 's major until yang yong-eun won the 2009 pga championship . -rrb-
she remains the only japanese woman to win an lpga major championship .
alongside ayako okamoto , she dominated the 1970s and 1980s in japanese women 's golf .
higuchi studied golf from torakichi nakamura , a member of japan 's winning team at the 1957 world cup of golf .
she turned pro in 1967 and went on to win 69 titles on the lpga of japan tour .
she was 31 when she won her lpga championship .
higuchi became president of the lpga of japan tour in 1996 .
in 2003 , she became the first japanese golfer to be inducted into the world golf hall of fame .
she was soon to be followed by isao aoki -lrb- 2004 -rrb- , okamoto -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , and masashi ozaki -lrb- 2011 -rrb- .
