Hideki Matsuyama and the Story of Golf in Japan
Up until this year, Golf in Japan had been in steady decline since the 1990s, with a massive 40% drop in those playing the game. Then Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters. The impact of Matsuyama’s astounding win will be felt across the whole of Japan for many years to come, injecting new life into Japanese golf and inspiring an entire generation to wake up and take up the game. And in the year that Japan hosts the Olympics… well, the …