prowins year birth_date eurowins usopen wghofid extour college name champwins japwins pga birth_place pgawins height award masters open tour wghofyear weight yearpro article_title otherwins
78 1976 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 , 1981 31 august 1942 1 2nd : 1980 isao-aoki japan golf tour pga tour none isao aoki 青木 功 9 51 -lrb- 2nd all-time -rrb- t4 : 1981 abiko , chiba 1 6 0 japan golf tour leading money winner t16 : 1985 2nd : 1980 champions tour 2004 180 lb kg on 1964 isao aoki
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isao aoki

aoki was born in abiko , chiba , japan .
he was introduced to golf while caddying at the abiko golf club as a schoolboy .
he turned professional in 1964 .
he went on to win more than fifty events on the japan golf tour between 1972 and 1990 , trailing only masashi `` jumbo '' ozaki on the list of golfers with most japan golf tour wins .
he won the japan golf tour money list five times in six years : 1976 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 , and 1981 .
his career earnings are 980 million yen .
in 1983 , aoki won the hawaiian open on the u.s. based pga tour and the panasonic european open on the european tour .
he also won the prestigious world match play championship in england in 1978 , which was not a european tour event at that time , and picked up a win on the pga tour of australasia .
aoki played 165 times on the pga tour between 1974 and 1999 , primarily from 1981 to 1990 .
his best finish in a major championship was a second place finish to jack nicklaus -lrb- by two strokes -rrb- in the 1980 u.s. open .
that finish , combined with his recent record in japan and around the globe , meant that aoki would finish 1980 ranked third in the unofficial mccormack 's world golf rankings , a position he would hold at the end of 1981 .
after the official world golf rankings debuted in 1986 , he was ranked in the top-10 for several weeks in 1987 .
in december 1984 after receiving an invitation from gary player , aoki traveled to south africa to participate in the million dollar challenge .
aoki did this in spite of japanese government efforts to dissuade him from making the trip .
as a senior , aoki has played mainly in the united states on the champions tour , winning nine times between 1992 and 2003 .
he has eight senior victories outside the united states , including five victories in the japan senior open where he shot his age , 65 , during his most recent triumph in 2007 .
