For the first 2 days at the Mynavi ABC Championship, Tatsuya Kodai will be playing in the Big and Tiny Yutas group. Tatsuya Kodai has won at this event 2 years ago. It was his first ever win on his 10th year as a Pro.

"I get good feelings when I come to this course. Good memories give me good images to play well"

Tatsuya Kodai is also known to be Ryo Ishikawa's look alike. Actually, many fans mistake him with Ryo and comes up to Tatsuya for autographs. Even some of the Korean players at the Shinhan Donghae Open said to Tatsuya that he looks very much alike to Ryo.

"When I am mistaken with Ryo, I really want to tell them to watch closer, if I were Ryo there will be whole bunch of staff and security guards me. He won't walk around freely like me. But I try to tell Ryo's fans politely that they have simply mistaken."

Tatsuya once joked to Ryo "Maybe from now on I should act really bad and ruin your reputation."
Ryo also joked by begging Tatsuya not to.

But this week, Ryo's fan won't make mistakes, since Ryo is in China for HSBC Champions. So, what would look alike do this week?
"I will imitate Ryo to fulfill his spot and help out."

As he said, Tatsuya was promoting the souvenir pin flag this week, the idea Ryo started this season.