Source: Sport Business
The Endeavor-owned WME Sports athlete representation agency has signed up leading amateur golfer Takumi Kanaya from Japan.
The 22-year-old has turned professional and signed with WME Sports for worldwide management and representation of all his commercial activities.
Kanaya, who is number one on the World Amateur Golf Rankings and winner of the 2020 McCormack Medal, an award named after IMG founder Mark McCormack, represented Japan at the 2018 Asian Games and the 2018 World Amateur Team Championships.
He also won the 2018 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, gaining entry to The Masters and The Open, and triumphed at the 2019 Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters, an event on the professional Japan Golf Tour.
Kanaya joins a WME Sports stable that already includes Americans Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth and Danielle Kang, plus Italy’s Francesco Molinari and Ireland’s 2021 Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington.
WME Sports’ new recruit will make his professional debut at the Japan Open Championship, to be played from October 15 to 18.
