Tadd Fujikawa News Blog

Tadd Fujikawa has been offered a sponsors exemption to the tournament that launched him to stardom in the golfing world. It was a tournament that Michelle Wie was supposed to make her splash at but instead saw the small Fujikawa make it big.

I’m talking about the Sony Open which is to be played at Waialae Country Club on January 10-13th. Tadd finished 20th overall after making the cut by shooting a second round 66.

Tadd later went on to become a Pro over the summer.

Michelle Wie is still waiting for her sponsors exemption while she no doubt finishes finals at her first semester at Stanford.

Tadd Fujikawa started out the day strong playing even par through 16 holes. His goal, to make the cut for the first time in 5 tries as a PGA professional. (Of course I’m sure he’s always thinking win thought.

However, the 17th hole gave him troubles and threw a minor kink in his plans. the 17th came with a double bogey placing him at 2 over par after he finished the day with a par. A score that places him near the bottom of the leaderboard.

Bob May leads all golfers with a 9 under after the first day. Tadd Fujikawa will have a tough road to climb back up since he’ll be chasing the majority of the pack. Only 5 golfers shot worse than his 2 over.

Tadd Fujikawa will try to make his first cut in a tournament as a professional golfer this weekend. He’s tried four times before so hopefully the 5th time is a charm.

Tadd will tee it up at 8:20 am (PST). He’ll have an early start and be on of the first in the Frys.com tournament.

Tadd Fujikawa has accepted a sponsors exemption to play in the Frys.com Open next week and Las Vegas, Nevada.

This will be Tadd’s first event since failing to qualify on the Nationwide Tour in Idaho. he did manage a late rally to finish under par, and also scored a hole in one in that tournament.

This event will be held at the TPC Summerlin and TPC Canyons courses in Vegas and is a charity tournament benefiting the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

In an interview Tadd sounded excited to play and mentioned that he’d been working on his game and is ready to go.

Here’s a news clip from when the young Tadd Fujikawa decided to turn Pro.

After Tadd Fujikawa shot a hole in one yesterday to go with his 1 under par 70, he was ready to make a run at the cut on the Nationwide Tour. It would be his first cut made since he turned professional.

The day just didn’t turn out as he had hoped. He didn’t play horrible, just not up to par with the others on the day. He started out with a string of pars and then stumbled with a bogey and 8. After this he made up for it with an immediate birdie on the next hole.

He was making the turn even for the day and in need of what looked like 2 birdies to make the projected cut of 3 under par at the time. He then bogeyed 12 and 14 slipping him to 2 over on the day and 1 over through the two days. All this as the projected cut moved from 3 under to 4 under.

However, Fujikawa made a late rally, really showing some good potential to not give up even when the day isn’t going quite as planned. He made birdie on the final two holes of the day finishing back up at even par for the round and 1 under for the tournament. Out of weekend play but with some positive golf shots and holes to look at.

The second round of the Albertsons Boise Open is in progress and we have some late breaking news.

Tadd Fujikawa is working on making a cut in his fourth tournament as a professional but it doesn’t look like this Nationwide Tour tournament will be his chance. Fujikawa is currently on the 15th hole and is sitting at 1 over par. The projected cut is 3 under, meaning Fujikawa has a lot of work to do in just three holes.

We’ll keep you updated and give you a tournament recap as soon as we know what happens.

That’s right, the young phenom golfer from Hawaii is making headlines again. After making the US Open, turning pro, and putting up impressive scores, Tadd Fujikawa record an ace today.

In the Albertsons Boise Open in Idaho Tadd Fujikawa shot a hole in one on is eighth hole, the 17th, a par 3 which admittedly was his fourth hole in one of his life.

Tadd finished the first day of the tournament 1 under with a 70 and sits 7 strokes off the leader.

For those of you living in Hawaii, or those of you who follow golf regularly you probably have heard of that short little guy from Hawaii named Tadd Fujikawa who’s making a splash on the golf scene. He’s the 16 year old who qualified for the US Open golf tournament and recently turned pro.

Well this blog is here to give you all the information you can handle about young Tadd Fujikawa as regularly as we can get it. He’s a great young golfer, with a great attitude and even more impressive game.

At only 5′1″ tall he’s an amazing athlete to watch when he swings the golf club. He launches the ball off the tee and has some amazing precision around the greens. And he’s humble ta boot!