Kirin Open

The Kirin Open was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1972 as the season ending event on the Asia Golf Circuit, replacing the Yomiuri International which had been cancelled when sponsors decided to discontinue the event.[1][2] It was also a fixture on the Japan Golf Tour from 1974 until 2001.

Kirin Open
Tournament information
Location Japan
Established1972
Course(s)Sobu Country Club (1972–1976)
Ibaraki Golf Club (1977–2001)
Tour(s)Asia Golf Circuit (until 1999)
Japan Golf Tour (from 1974)
FormatStroke play
Final year2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Kuo Chie-Hsiung (1978)
Final champion
Shingo Katayama

It was played at Sobu Country Club in Inzai until 1976. In 1977 Dunlop became title sponsors and the tournament was moved to Ibaraki Golf Club in Ibaraki.

Winners
YearTour(s)[lower-alpha 1]WinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upRef.
Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open
2001JPN Shingo Katayama271−136 strokes Hajime Meshiai
2000JPN Shingo Katayama280−42 strokes Lin Keng-chi
Andre Stolz
Peter Senior
Kirin Open
1999AGC, JPN K. J. Choi204[lower-alpha 2]−9Playoff[lower-alpha 3] Jeev Milkha Singh[3]
1998AGC, JPN Frankie Miñoza279−51 stroke Tsukasa Watanabe
Brian Watts
Hidemichi Tanaka
1997AGC, JPN Kim Jong-duck278−102 strokes Hirofumi Miyase
Shigeki Maruyama
Tateo Ozaki
Brian Watts
1996AGC, JPN Yoshinori Kaneko278−101 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Nobuo Serizawa
Dunlop Open
1995AGC, JPN Peter Senior279−95 strokes Brian Watts[4]
1994AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki274−141 stroke Hsieh Chin-sheng[5]
1993AGC, JPN Hajime Meshiai275−132 strokes Katsunari Takahashi
Kevin Wentworth		[6]
1992AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki286−2Playoff[lower-alpha 4] Brent Franklin[7]
1991AGC, JPN Roger Mackay272−162 strokes Teruo Sugihara[8]
1990AGC, JPN Frankie Miñoza205[lower-alpha 5]−11Playoff[lower-alpha 6] Teruo Sugihara[9]
1989AGC, JPN Terry Gale284−41 stroke Peter Senior
Chen Tze-ming		[10]
1988AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki278−103 strokes David Ishii[11]
Dunlop International Open
1987AGC, JPN Isao Aoki277−111 stroke Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Tsuneyuki Nakajima		[12]
1986AGC, JPN Hideto Shigenobu281−72 strokes David Ishii
Masahiro Kuramoto		[13]
1985AGC, JPN Chen Tze-chung277−111 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima[14]
1984AGC, JPN John Jacobs283−52 strokes Tateo Ozaki[15]
1983AGC, JPN Larry Nelson201[lower-alpha 7]−151 stroke Masahiro Kuramoto[17]
1982AGC, JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima276−125 strokes Saburo Fujiki[18]
1981AGC, JPN Kosaku Shimada286−22 strokes Akira Yabe
Payne Stewart
Koichi Uehara		[19]
1980AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki277−115 strokes Graham Marsh
Ho Ming-chung		[20]
1979AGC, JPN Hiroshi Ishii278−103 strokes Seiji Ebihara
Kazunari Takahashi
Tateo Ozaki		[21]
1978AGC, JPN Kuo Chie-Hsiung265−2311 strokes Bob Byman[22]
1977AGC, JPN Ben Arda282−62 strokes Terry Kendall
Tsuneyuki Nakajima		[23]
Sobu International Open
1976AGC, JPN Ben Arda277−114 strokes Chen Chien-chung[24]
1975AGC, JPN Teruo Sugihara282−62 strokes Ted Ball
Hsu Sheng-San
Hideyo Sugimoto		[25]
1974AGC, JPN Lu Liang-Huan280−84 strokes Fumio Tanaka
Masashi Ozaki		[26]
1973AGC Shigeru Uchida279−9Playoff[lower-alpha 8] Masashi Ozaki[27]
1972AGC Hsieh Min-Nan279−92 strokes Ben Arda[28]
  1. AGC – Asia Golf Circuit; JPN – Japan Golf Tour.
  2. Third round cancelled due to rain.[3]
  3. Choi won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
  4. Ozaki won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
  5. Third round cancelled due to rain.[9]
  6. Minoza won with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden death playoff.
  7. Second round cancelled due to rain.[16]
  8. Uchida won with a 180-yard hole-out for eagle on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.

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