Japanese teen golf star Ryo Ishikawa, who won the money title on the Japan Golf Tour last year, will make his 2010 US PGA Tour debut at the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles.
The tournament will be held February 4-7 at Riviera Country Club, and was the site of Ishikawa's US tour debut last year.
Ishikawa, 18, won four times in Japan last year to become the youngest player to win a money list on one of golf's major tours.
He was selected for the Presidents Cup, winning three of his five matches for the International team captained by Greg Norman.
When Ishikawa played at Riviera last year, missing the cut, his appearance nearly doubled the size of the media contingent at the tournament.
He finished 2009 ranked 30th in the world, earning him a place in the first major championship of the year, the Masters, at Augusta National in April.
Ishikawa made his Masters debut last year courtesy of a special invitation from Augusta National.
He will also will play the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship.
Ishikawa was on site last year for the Match Play, for which he was third alternate but did not make it into the field.
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