Japan Open Golf Championship
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The Japan Open Golf Championship (日本オープンゴルフ選手権競技 Nihon ōpun gorufu senshu kenkyōgi?) is Japan's national open golf championship. As of 2007 it is one of the two richest tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, with a prize fund of 200 million Yen. It is also the tour's designated "Premier event" for the purposes of the Official World Golf Rankings, with a minimum winner's points allocation of 16 points (or 32 doubled-up points).
[edit] Tournament winners
- 2007 11-14 October
- 2006 Paul Sheehan -
Australia - 2005 Shingo Katayama -
Japan - 2004 Toru Taniguchi - Japan
- 2003 Keiichiro Fukabori - Japan
- 2002 David Smail -
New Zealand - 2001 Taichi Teshima - Japan
- 2000 Naomichi Ozaki - Japan
- 1999 Naomichi Ozaki - Japan
- 1998 Hidemichi Tanaka - Japan
- 1997 Craig Parry - Australia
- 1996 Peter Teravainen -
United States - 1995 Toshimitsu Izawa - Japan
- 1994 Masashi Ozaki - Japan
- 1993 Seiki Okuda - Japan
- 1992 Masashi Ozaki - Japan
- 1991 Tommy Nakajima - Japan
- 1990 Tommy Nakajima - Japan
- 1989 Masashi Ozaki - Japan
- 1988 Masashi Ozaki - Japan
- 1987 Isao Aoki - Japan
- 1986 Tommy Nakajima - Japan
- 1985 Tommy Nakajima - Japan
- 1984 Kouichi Uehara - Japan
- 1983 Isao Aoki - Japan
- 1982 Akara Yabe - Japan
- 1981 Yukata Hagawa - Japan
- 1980 Shoji Kikuchi Japan
- 1979 Kuo Chie-Hsiung
- 1978 Seve Ballesteros -
Spain - 1977 Seve Ballesteros - Spain
- 1976 Kosaku Shimada - Japan
- 1975 Takashi Murakami - Japan
- 1974 Masashi Ozaki - Japan
- 1973 Ben Arda -
Philippines - 1972 Hon Chang Sang
- 1971 Yoshiro Hayashi - Japan
- 1970 Mitsuhiro Kitta - Japan
- 1969 Hideyo Sugimoto
- 1968 Takaaki Kono
- 1967 Tadashi Kitta
- 1966 Seichi Sato
- 1965 Tadashi Kitta
- 1964 Hideyo Sugimoto
- 1963 Toichiro Toda
- 1962 Teruo Sugihara - Japan
- 1961 Kenji Hosoishi
- 1960 Haruyoshi Kobari
- 1959 Chen Ching-Po
- 1958 Torakichi Nakamura
- 1957 Haruyoshi Kobari
- 1956 Torakichi Nakamura
- 1955 Koichi Ono
- 1954 Yoshiro Hayashi
- 1953 Son Shi-Kin
- 1952 Torakichi Nakamura
- 1951 Son Shi-Kin
- 1950 Yoshiro Hayashi
- 1942-1949 No tournament due to World War II
- 1941 Tokuharu Nobuhara
- 1940 Tomekichi Miyamoto
- 1939 Toichira Toda
- 1938 Rin Man-Puku
- 1937 Chin Sei-Sui
- 1936 Tomekichi Miyamoto
- 1935 Tomekichi Miyamoto
- 1934 No tournament due to flood damage
- 1933 Kodekichi Nakamura
- 1932 Tomekichi Miyamoto
- 1931 Rokuzo Asami
- 1930 Tomekichi Miyamoto
- 1929 Tomekichi Miyamoto
- 1928 Rokuzo Asami
- 1927 Rokuro Akahoshi
