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It is commonplace, insiders say, for Ozaki's wife to cook dinner for 30 between business calls. You're in Jumbo's Corner, a museum of Ozaki memorabilia on the second floor of Phoenix's luxurious clubhouse. Check out what's on sale in the PGA Shop. Jumbo's tight-lipped smile suggests boredom. That is, they are so spoiled they can't function on their own.

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He also showed an outstanding putter and his wedge shots all went in the middle. Norman's charges aside, suspicion of Ozaki is rampant among golf's moral majority, the professional tour caddies.

In his backyard, by the practice facility, he has built motel-style housing for members of his gundan, the 20 or so golf apprentices who look to him for instruction and career guidance. Japan national baseball team While golf has long been popular in Japan, it was Ozaki who brought a new vitality to the game and his emergence spawned an unprecedented growth in the game in the country. Open, Open Championship and the Masters.

Sports Illustrated treats this information with care and respect. He has won the Japan Open a total of five times, while younger brother Naomichi won inwith Jumbo tied for fourth and Tateo tied for fifith.

To behave, in other words, in a distinctly un-Japanese manner. When he was admonished by the Japanese tour, he said, "How was I supposed to know? He soon became the highest-earning golfer in Japan and inhe became the first Japanese golfer to win three tournaments in consecutive weeks, including the Japan Open. But again, no official action was taken, and Norman's accusations got delicate treatment in the national press.

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Masashi Ozaki

Last November, however, Jumbo signed an equipment deal with little-known World One, an entertainment company that started 10 years ago as a pipsqueak outfit renting karaoke machines. In his second year on the pro tour, Jumbo, then 24, won the JPGA Championship and four other tourneys, starting a four-year reign atop the money list. Shy he may be, but Jumbo is not reclusive.

Last year, when he could have been playing Senior golf, Ozaki won five more Japanese tour events one by 12 shotsincluding an unprecedented sixth JPGA Championship, and led the Japanese money list for the 11th time.

He compiled an incredible record playing in his home country with a record 94 wins on the JGTO.

Personalized daily email with your favorite ozxki sports and entertainment. He says, "I think the guitar is in the attic and food for mice. He has won over 90 tournaments and frequently tops the money rankings, even at an age when other golfers ozai moving to the senior tour. Bridgestone, meanwhile, was left with a ball deal. And the "Jumbo Corps" is also coaching about 40 young golfers, including the next generation of the Ozaki golf dynasty--Jumbo's eldest son, Tomoharu, Yomiuri reported that Ozaki had met Chihiro Inagawa, eldest son of the gang's founder, in the late '70s at the Hawaiian Open.

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Use a box to improve your takeaway mechanics. His tailor must have stripped a pool table for the cloth. Ozaki-san asks if you understand what it means, 'To win like a young man. His real name is Masashi Ozaki, and he's the eldest of three brothers from Tokushima prefecture, in southwestern Japan, who play pro golf. Jumbo emerged about 30 years ago while Ozaki was teaching himself the game, and burst full-blown on the scene when he gave up baseball for tournament golf at age Belfair Ozai, South Carolina.

It's startling, then, to talk with Americans who play the Japanese tour--golfers who see a different Ozaki. Aoki knows only golf.

This year, Jumbo will compete in a number of major tournaments abroad, including the Masters in April. But Jumbo remains the face of golf in Japan. Admittedly, Ozaki has never pursued those trophies with the intensity of, say, a Jack Nicklaus or a Nick Faldo.