japwins open pga usopen weight birth_place height article_title award prowins year birth_date yearpro masters college name tour
16 t44 : 2001 t18 : 2003 t44 : 2001 68 kg lb st on kanagawa prefecture , japan 1.69 0 toshimitsu izawa
 japan golf tour leading money winner 17 2001 , 2003 2 march 1968 1989 t4 : 2001 nihon taiiku university toshimitsu izawa 伊沢利光 japan golf tour
toshimitsu izawa

toshimitsu izawa -lrb- , born 2 march 1968 -rrb- is a japanese professional golfer .
he is sometimes known outside of japan as toshi izawa .
izawa was born in kanagawa , attended nihon taiiku university , and turned professional in 1989 .
izawa 's career on the japan golf tour developed quite slowly .
his first win came in 1995 , and he did not make the top ten on the money list until 1999 , when he was thirty one years old .
he went on to top the money list in 2001 and 2003 .
in the first of those years he set a record of ¥ 217,934,583 in earnings which survived though the 2004 season , and his dominant form in japan lifted him into the top twenty in the official world golf ranking .
he has 16 victories on the japan golf tour and is eighth on the career money list -lrb- through 2013 -rrb- .
izawa has only played a limited number of tournaments outside japan , but in 2001 he finished tied fourth at the masters tournament , which is one of golf 's four major championships , and tied for second at the pga tour 's nissan open .
in 2002 , he won the wgc-world cup for japan in partnership with shigeki maruyama .
