Munsingwear Open KSB Cup

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The Munsingwear Open KSB Cup is an annual event on te Japan Golf Tour. It is the result of a merge, in 2000, of two previous tournaments, the Georgia KSB Open and the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup. The Georgia KSB Open started in 1989 and the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup started in 1992. Since 2004, the tournament has been played at the Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club in Okayama. In 2007, Ryo Ishikawa, an amateur, became the youngest winner (15 years and 8 months) ever on the Japan Golf Tour. The purse for 2008 was ¥100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.

[edit] Winners

Munsingwear Open KSB Cup

• 2008 Hideto Tanihara
• 2007 Ryo Ishikawa (amateur)
• 2006 Toshinori Muto
• 2005 Hiroyuki Fujita
• 2004 Tatsuya Mitsuhashi
• 2003 Hirofumi Miyase
• 2002 Kenichi Kuboya
• 2001 Dinesh Chand
• 2000 Shingo Katayama

Georgia KSB Open 1999 Yoshinori Kaneko Just System KSB Open 1998 Carlos Franco 1997 Keiichiro Fukabori Novell KSB Open 1996 Toru Suzuki 1995 Rick Gibson United KSB Open 1994 Kazuhiro Takami TaylorMade KSB Open 1993 Tateo Ozaki 1992 Seiki Okuda KSB Open 1991 Masanobu Kimura Seto Uthumi Open 1990 Masahiro Kuramoto 1989 Naomichi Ozaki

Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup 1999 Masayuki Kawamura 1998 Dinesh Chand 1997 Peter Teravainen 1996 Masanobu Kimura 1995 Satoshi Higashi Descente Classic 1994 Brian Watts 1993 Tetsu Nishikawa 1992 Yoshinori Kaneko

[edit] External links

• Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site - in English

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