Tsuruya Open

The Tsuruya Open (つるやオープンゴルフトーナメント, Tsuruya ōpun gorufu tōnamento^?) is a golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It has been played annually since 1994. The tournament's to-par record is -17 (271) set by Katsumasa Miyamoto in 1998. The aggregate record is 268 (-16) set by Brendan Jones in 2007. The course measures 6,770 yards and the par is 71. In 2011, the purse was ￥120,000,000 with ￥24,000,000 going to the winner.

Tournaments hosts

• 2005-2011 Yamanohara Golf Club (Yamanohara Course)
• 1994-2004 Sports Shinko Country Club (Yamanohara Course)

Winners

• 2011 Tomohiro Kondo
• 2010 Hiroyuki Fujita
• 2009 Masaya Tomida
• 2008 SK Ho
• 2007 Brendan Jones
• 2006 Brendan Jones
• 2005 Naomichi Ozaki
• 2004 Brendan Jones
• 2003 Hirofumi Miyase
• 2002 Dean Wilson
• 2001 Hidemichi Tanaka
• 2000 Richard Backwell
• 1999 Naomichi Ozaki
• 1998 Katsumasa Miyamoto
• 1997 Mitsuo Harada
• 1996 Peter McWhinney
• 1995 Satoshi Higashi
• 1994 Tsuneyuki Nakajima

External links

• Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site (English)