Japan Golf Tour Championship
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan |
| Established | 2000 |
| Course(s) | Shishido Hills Country Club |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,387 yards (6,755 m) |
| Tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | ¥150,000,000 |
| Month played | June |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 268 Nobuhito Sato (2002) |
| To par | −20 as above |
| Current champion | |
 Hiroshi Iwata | |
| Location map | |
  Shishido Hills CC Location in Japan  Shishido Hills CC Location in the Ibaraki Prefecture | |
The Japan Golf Tour Championship (日本ゴルフツアー選手権, Nihon gorufu tsuā senshuken) is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 2000, it is one of the four major championships on the tour.
Tournament hosts
[edit]The Japan Golf Tour Championship has been played at Shishido Hills Country Club since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, it was played at Horai Country Club.
Prize money
[edit]Prize money was ¥120,000,000 from 2000 to 2005 and has been ¥150,000,000 since 2006, except for 2010 when it was ¥120,000,000. In 2000 the weather shortened the event to 54 holes and the prize money was reduced by 25% from ¥120,000,000 to ¥90,000,000.
Winners
[edit]| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup | |||||
| 2024 | Hiroshi Iwata |
271 | −13 | Playoff | Ryo Ishikawa
|
| 2023 | Takumi Kanaya |
273 | −11 | 2 strokes | Yuki Inamori Hiroshi Iwata
|
| 2022 | Kazuki Higa |
272 | −12 | 1 stroke | Tomoharu Otsuki
|
| Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills | |||||
| 2021 | Ryosuke Kinoshita |
270 | −14 | 5 strokes | Yuki Furuwaka
|
| 2020 | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||
| 2019 | Mikumu Horikawa |
269 | −15 | 4 strokes | Shugo Imahira
|
| 2018 | Kodai Ichihara |
272 | −12 | 1 stroke | Ryuko Tokimatsu
|
| 2017 |  Shaun Norris |
271 | −13 | 4 strokes |  Seungsu Han
|
| 2016 | Yosuke Tsukada |
282 | −2 | 1 stroke |  Michael Hendry
|
| 2015 |  Liang Wenchong |
270 | −14 | 5 strokes |  Brad Kennedy Ryutaro Nagano Song Young-han
|
| 2014 | Yoshitaka Takeya |
271 | −17 | 2 strokes | Lee Sang-hee
|
| Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills | |||||
| 2013 | Satoshi Kodaira |
274 | −14 | 1 stroke |  Kiradech Aphibarnrat Hur Suk-ho
|
| Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills | |||||
| 2012 | Yoshinori Fujimoto |
271 | −13 | 2 strokes | Masamichi Uehira
|
| 2011 | Park Jae-bum |
278 | −6 | 1 stroke | Daisuke Maruyama
|
| 2010 | Katsumasa Miyamoto (2) |
279 | −5 | 3 strokes | Hiroyuki Fujita
|
| UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills | |||||
| 2009 | Yuji Igarashi |
276 | −8 | 1 stroke |  Jang Ik-jae David Smail Toru Suzuki
|
| 2008 | Hidemasa Hoshino |
272 | −12 | 5 strokes | Brendan Jones Takao Nogami
|
| 2007 | Shingo Katayama |
271 | −9 | 1 stroke | Naoya Takemoto
|
| 2006 | Tatsuhiko Takahashi |
273 | −7 | 3 strokes | Tetsuji Hiratsuka
|
| Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup | |||||
| 2005 | Kazuhiko Hosokawa |
273 | −7 | Playoff | Yasuharu Imano David Smail
|
| 2004 | Hur Suk-ho |
279 | −5 | Playoff | Tomohiro Kondo
|
| 2003 | Toshimitsu Izawa (2) |
270 | −14 | 1 stroke | David Smail Tadahiro Takayama
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| Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup | |||||
| 2002 | Nobuhito Sato |
268 | −20 | 6 strokes | Kenichi Kuboya
|
| 2001 | Katsumasa Miyamoto |
273 | −15 | 7 strokes |  Eduardo Herrera Jeev Milkha Singh
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| JGTO TPC iiyama Cup | |||||
| 2000 | Toshimitsu Izawa |
203[a] | −13 | 3 strokes | Kaname Yokoo
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Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.