After hitting his fourth shot into Rae's Creek, Nakajima elected to play the ball rather than take a drop.

He popped the ball straight up and it landed on his foot, causing a two-stroke penalty.

[2] Also in 1978, Nakajima was in contention at The Open Championship on the third day at St Andrews until he putted into – and then took four attempts to escape from – the Road Hole bunker at the 17th for a quintuple bogey, which led the British tabloids to christen that bunker, for a while, "the Sands of Nakajima".

He would also feature in an epic match at the 1982 Suntory World Match Play Championship at Wentworth when he lost to Sandy Lyle only after an extended playoff.

this list may be incomplete *Note: The 1986 Mizuno Open was shortened to 63 holes due to rain.