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They had their first date at the beginning of the year, and she "kept on seeing him every day for a week". Currently he is the only man under 30 on the national tour and already has 7 wins to his name, but she smiles bitterly when she admits, "I was always meeting him just by chance, but he didn't notice me at all."

Under the same aggressive approach he uses in golf, Nagate agreed to marry him and happily says, "From the first day I met him, he was saying, 'Let's get married'... He took me to hospital when I fell ill. He met with my father back in March. He really seemed kind and gentlemanly." When she first went to cheer him on at the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup in May, Tanihara won his first match of the season. She was already acting as his goddess of victory.

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Tanihara is not in a honeymoon mood. He says, "I'm fired up knowing my first event after getting married is a major one. I'm going to give it my all. And this year, I'm definitely taking the prize." His dream is to return to the US Tour after having been eliminated in 2005. Nagate is an international figure, having attended an international school from kindergarten and spent her high school years in Hawaii. The Japanese golf star has found his best partner and is ready to take on the world again.

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