Japan Golf Tour Championship

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.

Japan Golf Tour Championship
Tournament information
LocationKasama, Ibaraki
Established2000
Course(s)Shishido Hills Country Club
Par71
Length7,384 yards (6,752 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥150,000,000
Month playedJune
Tournament record score
Aggregate268 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
To par−20 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
Current champion
Mikumu Horikawa
Location Map
Shishido Hills CC
Location in Japan
Shishido Hills CC
Shishido Hills CC (Ibaraki Prefecture)

Tournament hosts

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

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

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills
2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Mikumu Horikawa269−154 strokes Shugo Imahira
2018 Kodai Ichihara272−121 stroke Ryuko Tokimatsu
2017 Shaun Norris271−134 strokes Seungsu Han
2016 Yosuke Tsukada282−21 stroke Michael Hendry
2015 Liang Wenchong270−145 strokes Brad Kennedy
Ryutaro Nagano
Song Young-han
2014 Yoshitaka Takeya271−172 strokes Lee Sang-hee
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2013 Satoshi Kodaira274−141 stroke Kiradech Aphibarnrat
Hur Suk-ho
Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills
2012 Yoshinori Fujimoto271−132 strokes Masamichi Uehira
2011 Park Jae-bum278−61 stroke Daisuke Maruyama
2010 Katsumasa Miyamoto279−53 strokes Hiroyuki Fujita
UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2009 Yuji Igarashi276−81 stroke Jang Ik-jae
David Smail
Toru Suzuki
2008 Hidemasa Hoshino272−125 strokes Brendan Jones
Takao Nogami
2007 Shingo Katayama271−91 stroke Naoya Takemoto
2006 Tatsuhiko Takahashi273−73 strokes Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup
2005 Kazuhiko Hosokawa273−7Playoff Yasuharu Imano
David Smail
2004 Hur Suk-ho279−5Playoff Tomohiro Kondo
2003 Toshimitsu Izawa270−141 stroke David Smail
Tadahiro Takayama
Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup
2002 Nobuhito Sato268[lower-alpha 1]−20[lower-alpha 1]6 strokes Kenichi Kuboya
2001 Katsumasa Miyamoto273−157 strokes Eduardo Herrera
Jeev Milkha Singh
JGTO TPC iiyama Cup
2000 Toshimitsu Izawa203[lower-alpha 2]−133 strokes Kaname Yokoo
  1. Scoring record.
  2. Tournament contested over 54 holes.

See also

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