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Place of Birth: Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
About Michiko Hattori
- Michiko Hattori (Japanese: ????, born 8 September 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer and former Player of the Year on the Japan LPGA. Prior to turning professional, Hattori was among the most decorated amateur and collegiate golfers in history.
- At age 16 in 1985 she became the third youngest, and only Japanese born, champion of the U.S.
- Women's Amateur, and in 1986 became the first golfer to win medalist honors at the U.S.
- Women's Amateur and U.S.
- Girls' Junior in the same year.
- Hattori is a three-time U.S.
- Women's Amateur stroke play medalist (1985–1987), and the youngest ever winner of the Japan Women's Amateur Championship (age 14).
- She won three Japan Women's Amateur titles and the 1988 Canadian Women's Amateur.
- She is one of 12 foreign winners of the U.S Women's Amateur in its 115-year history, and one of 11 golfers to have won the title on their first attempt.
- She is one of six to have won U.S.
- Amateur medalist honors three or more times, and the only golfer to have done so for the past 70 years.
- Hattori lead Japan to four consecutive top-5 finishes at the IGF World Amateur Team Championships, the country's best ever performances in the bi-annual competition, and in 1987 won the individual title and led Japan to a team victory in the Queen Sirikit Cup, a prestigious annual competition between Asian nations; other former individual winners of the cup include Hiromi Kobayashi and current LPGA members Yani Tseng, Mi Hyun Kim, Hee-Won Han and Jeong Jang.
- She had a storied collegiate career at the University of Texas, where she won 10 individual titles and was twice named Collegiate Golfer of the Year.
- She was the 1990 recipient of the Honda-Broderick Award for Golf.
- Among her achievements was finishing in the top ten in 38 of 40 events in which she competed during her four years at Texas, including three individual top-ten finishes at the NCAA Women's Golf Championship (tied for 1st at the end of regulation in 1989; lost in playoff). In her first season as a professional, Hattori recorded 11 top-10 finishes and placed 8th on the money list on her way to being named the 1992 Japan LPGA Rookie of the Year.
- She won three times with 15 top-10s in her second season on tour (1993), and in 1998 won five titles, including the Japan LPGA Championship, and placed second three times.
- She was named the JLPGA Player of the Year and won the season-ending money title.
- Her most recent win was the Studio Alice Women's Open in 2005.
- Hattori has won 18 Japan LPGA titles and finished in the top three on tour 56 times; she boasts career totals of 150 top-10 and 300 top-25 finishes through the end of the 2008 season.
- She has finished in the top-10 on the JLPGA money list seven times, and placed in the top-25 for fifteen consecutive seasons (1992–2006). Among Hattori's professional wins are two Japan Women's Open Golf Championships, the Japan LPGA Championship, and two Fujitsu Ladies Open titles.
- She is also winner of the 1998 IDC Otsuka Ladies Championship, succeeding 1997 winner Annika Sörenstam.
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