Keita Nakajima

Winner of the Mark McCormack Medal as the world’s leading amateur in 2021 and 2022, Keita Nakajima is now back for his fourth Open after finishing in the top 25 in the final Race to Dubai rankings.

In 2025 he managed three runner-up finishes on the DP World Tour - at the DP World India Championship, the Hero Indian Open and the Porsche Singapore Classic - along with a fourth place result at the Betfred British Masters Hosted by Sir Nick Faldo.

With two victories Nakajima became the Japan Tour No 1 in 2023 and was also their Rookie of the Year. He added his first DP World Tour title in March the following year when he led the Hero Indian Open from start to finish.

The former Japan amateur champion was just 15 when he was first invited to play a JGTO event and first topped the World Amateur Golf Ranking^® (WAGR^®) in November 2020.

A year later he won the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship, which also offered a place into The 150th Open at St Andrews and an invitation to The Masters at Augusta National. In all Nakajima held top spot in the amateur rankings for a record 87 weeks.