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. 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 32 points.

[edit] Winners

2007 Toru Taniguchi - Japan
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 Akira 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 ¹
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 ²
1954 Yoshiro Hayashi
1953 Son Shi-Kin ²
1952 Torakichi Nakamura
1951 Son Shi-Kin ²
1950 Yoshiro Hayashi
1942-1949 No tournament due to World War II
1941 Tokuharu Nobuhara
1940 Tomekichi Miyamoto
1939 Toichira Toda
1938 Rin(Lin) 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

Notes

¹ On the Japan Open home page the name of the winner is Yoshiro Hayashi in English, but Yoshimasa Fujii in Japanese.
² Son Shi-Kin changed his name to Koichi Ono in 1954 or 1955.