BRIEF-Golf-Ishikawa retains Japan’s top athlete award (Reuters)
December 24, 2009
TOKYO, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Record-breaking teenager RyoIshikawa won the Japan Professional Sports Award for the secondyear running on Friday.
The 18-year-old, who became Japan’s youngest order of meritwinner in 2009, accepted the award from Japanese Prime MinisterYukio Hatoyama in a Christmas visit to the PM’s office.
The multi-millionaire schoolboy, who is already one ofJapan’s biggest celebrities, was the award’s youngest recipientlast year.
Ishikawa, who won four JGTO Tour titles this year and madehis major debut, presented Hatoyama with a putter and gave thePM some tips after becoming the sixth back-to-back winner ofthe prestigious Japanese sports award. (Reporting by Patrick Johnston in Singapore; Editing byAlastair Himmer; To query or comment on this story emailsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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