Hinako Shibuno

Golfer

Birthday November 15, 1998

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Okayama, Okayama, Japan

Age 25 years old

Nationality Japan

Height 1.67m

Weight 62 kg

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1977

She is the second Japanese player to win a women's major championship, after Hisako Higuchi, who won the 1977 LPGA Championship, as well as the second player this decade to win in her major debut, after Kim Hyo-joo at the 2014 Evian Championship.

Shibuno earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school.

^ Co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour

Tournaments in bold denotes major tournaments in LPGA of Japan Tour.

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CUT = missed the half-way cut

NT = No tournament

"T" = tied

^ Official as of 2023 season

* Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Professional

1998

Shibuno was born in Okayama, Japan on 15 November 1998.

Her father was a discus thrower and her mother was a javelin thrower.

She is the middle child of their three daughters.

She started playing golf and softball when she was a second grader.

As a softball player, she was a pitcher and a converted left-handed hitter.

2010

As a golfer, she finished third in the 2010 Okayama Prefecture Junior Golf Championship (4th, 5th, and 6th grader division).

At Jōtō junior high school, she joined the school's baseball club as the only female player.

2011

However, after winning the 2011 Okayama Prefecture Junior Golf Championship (junior high school division), she decided to focus on golf, taking advice from her baseball coach.

2014

In 2014, she was enrolled at Sakuyō High School where she continued to play golf for the school.

In the same year, she won the Chūgoku Region Women's Amateur Championship.

2015

As a member of the school team, she won the team competition in the National High School Golf Championship in 2015.

2017

In 2017, after graduating from the high school, she was qualified to take a final test to be a professional but failed.

2018

In 2018, she mainly played in the step-up tour circuit.

The only JLPGA competition she played in that year was the Earth Mondahmin Cup in June where she was qualified after a successful Monday qualifier.

She scored a hole-in-one at the 9th hole of the first day of the competition and earned 6 million yen for the feat, despite missing the cut.

In July 2018, she passed the test and turned professional.

2019

Hinako Shibuno (渋野 日向子) is a Japanese professional golfer who won the 2019 Women's British Open.

In May 2019, Shibuno won the World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup, one of the four major golf tournaments for women on the LPGA of Japan Tour.

In July 2019, she won the Shiseido Anessa Ladies Open after a playoff.

In August 2019, she won the AIG Women's British Open, which was her first LPGA Tour event and her first time outside of Japan.