Kurt Kitayama

32-Year-Old Golfer

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2025 Stats

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$3,360,156

Winnings/Entry

$146,094

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2025 Fantasy Outlook

After unexpectedly winning a signature event and capturing more than $6 million in earnings in 2024, there was really nowhere to go but down for Kitayama, but the depths of which he sank was a little surprising. Kitayama was a sneaky sleeper heading into 2023, but not many could have predicted the season he had. The task in 2024 was to back up that season and that didn't really happen. Kitayama didn't fall off the map, but missing the top-70 was not in the plans. With that said, there is an opportunity here in salary cap leagues to find some value. Kitayama is not a $6 million guy, but he's better than $2 million. Whether he finishes closer to 2023 or 2024 is the question. He will be better this season, but anything more than $4 million might be a bit optimistic. Read Past Outlooks

Handedness Right

Status Pro

Height 5'7"

Weight 170 lbs

DOB 1/14/1993

Birthplace Chico, California

College UNLV

Country USA

T15 at Bank of Utah Championship

October 28, 2025

Kitayama fired a seven-under 64 on Sunday at the Bank of Utah Championship to finish 13-under and tied for 15th.

ANALYSIS
Kitayama opened his final round with an eagle on the par-4 10th, holing out from 98 yards for the deuce. He would go on to add seven birdies as well, averaging an impressive 1.43 putts per GIR on Sunday. He ultimately gained 5.9 strokes with his ball striking throughout 72 holes in Utah, racking up 22 total par-breakers in the process. Kitayama, who won the 2025 3M Open, remains without a single missed cut since early June's RBC Canadian Open.

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Past Fantasy Outlooks

2024

2023

2022

The majority of Kitayama's earnings in the 2022-23 season came in four starts. Those were a runner-up at the CJ Cup, win at the API, T5 at the WGC-Match Play and a T4 at the PGA Championship. Kitayama had just three other top-25s along with 10 missed cuts. He ended up just barely inside the top-100 in SG: Total and was outside the top-50 in scoring average. The 30-year-old is simply too inconsistent to project him to finish anywhere close to the $6.8 million he made in 2022-23.

Kitayama's success as a rookie on the PGA Tour came as a bit of a surprise this past season. After all, he was a 29 year-old rookie that was lacking much success on the lower tours, so when he posted two runner-ups in the span of a couple months this past season, it caught some attention. There's nothing wrong with being a late bloomer, there's no reason that Kitayama can't be wildly successful on the PGA Tour, it's just creates a little doubt when looking ahead. Kitayama got off to a very slow start this past season, but his play from February on was pretty solid. As such. he looks like a decent salary cap candidate this season.

The American-born UNLV product has won twice on the European Tour since 2018, but he'll now be eligible for more stateside events after securing a PGA Tour card via the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Kitayama was ranked as high as 66th in the Official World Golf Ranking in early 2020, but he's since fallen just outside the top 150.

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Top-10 finish in Memphis

August 12, 2025

Kitayama fired a three-under 67 on Sunday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship to finish nine-under and tied for ninth.