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Place of Birth: Kawagoe, Kantō region, Japan
About Hisako Higuchi
- Hisako "Chako" Higuchi (Japanese: ????, born 13 October 1945 in Kawagoe, Saitama) 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.
- (No Asian-born player would win a men's major until Yang Yong-eun won the 2009 PGA 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.
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