Keita Nakajima , the winner of McCormack Medal 2021 Aug 18

Nakajima wins men’s McCormack Medal

Wednesday 18 August 2021

The Golf Times,world  announced today from R&A news sources 2021 concerning the Men's McCormack Medal 

Photo;R&A / WGPCA/keita Nakajima 

Keita Nakajima of Japan has won the Mark H McCormack Medal as the leading men’s player in the 2021 World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®).

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Nakajima follows hot on the footsteps of fellow countryman Takumi Kanaya, who won the 2020 McCormack Medal as the world’s leading men’s amateur golfer, and receives exemptions into The 150^th Open at St Andrews and the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

National success

The 21-year-old tasted national success in July earlier this year after winning the Japan Amateur Championship by three strokes at Ohtone Country Club, near Tokyo. 

Nakajima has also made a series of appearances in professional events in the last year, finishing runner-up in the 2021 Token Homemate Cup, third in the 2020 Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters and eighth in the 2020 Dunlop Phoenix. 

He also recorded top-20 finishes in the Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup and Japan Open Championship.