Toru Taniguchi

Toru Taniguchi (谷口 徹, Taniguchi Tōru, born 10 February 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Taniguchi was born in Nara. He has won 19 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour (ranking 10th on the most career victories list), topped the money list in 2002 and 2007, and is fifth on the career money list (through 2009). In 2001, he reached the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
He has featured in the top 30 of the Official World Golf Ranking and was the highest ranked Japanese golfer from 2007 to 2008.

Japan Golf Tour wins (19)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	31 May 1998	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	−16 (71-65-65-67=268)	1 stroke	Kazuhiko Hosokawa
2	24 Sep 2000	Acom International	−18 (69-68-65-64=266)	6 strokes	Yasuharu Imano
3	29 Oct 2000	Philip Morris Championship	−12 (68-73-68-67=276)	1 stroke	Shingo Katayama, Hidemichi Tanaka
4	17 Mar 2002	Token Corporation Cup	−16 (71-73-67-61=272)	2 strokes	Hirofumi Miyase
5	23 Jun 2002	Tamanoi Yomiuri Open	−18 (65-69-67-69=270)	2 strokes	Satoru Hirota, Daisuke Maruyama
6	29 Sep 2002	Acom International	−16 (64-63-70=197)	1 stroke	Zhang Lian-wei
7	13 Oct 2002	Georgia Tokai Classic	−10 (72-69-69-68=278)	2 strokes	Nozomi Kawahara, Zaw Moe
8	17 Oct 2004	Japan Open	−3 (68-68-75-74=285)	4 strokes	Toshimitsu Izawa, David Smail, Yeh Wei-tze
9	24 Oct 2004	Bridgestone Open	−16 (66-71-69-66=272)	1 stroke	Shigeki Maruyama, Shinichi Yokota
10	27 Nov 2005	Casio World Open	−11 (70-70-68-69=277)	2 strokes	Kim Jong-duck
11	30 Jul 2006	The Golf Tournament in Omaezaki	−11 (69-70-66-68=273)	Playoff	S. K. Ho, Tomohiro Kondo
12	8 Jul 2007	Woodone Open Hiroshima	−15 (67-64-68-70=269)	Playoff	Prayad Marksaeng
13	15 Jul 2007	Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup	−12 (70-70-68-68=276)	3 strokes	Prom Meesawat
14	14 Oct 2007	Japan Open	−5 (75-70-72-66=283)	2 strokes	Shingo Katayama
15	20 Sep 2009	ANA Open	−16 (67-67-66-72=272)	4 strokes	Kim Kyung-tae, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Kazuhiro Yamashita
16	16 May 2010	Japan PGA Championship Nissin Cupnoodle Cup	−10 (69-68-65-68=270)	1 stroke	Tetsuji Hiratsuka
17	23 Oct 2011	Bridgestone Open	−15 (69-67-68-65=269)	2 strokes	Shingo Katayama, Hiroo Kawai, Michio Matsumura, Koumei Oda
18	13 May 2012	Japan PGA Championship Nissin Cupnoodle Cup	−4 (65-70-76-73=284)	1 stroke	Keiichiro Fukabori
19	21 Oct 2012	Bridgestone Open	−12 (66-71-69-66=272)	1 stroke	Hiroyuki Fujita

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

• Royal Trophy (representing Asia): 2007, 2009 (winners)
• World Cup (representing Japan): 2008