Ube Kosan Open

The Ube Kosan Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near Ube, Yamaguchi. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour.

Ube Kosan Open
Tournament information
LocationUbe, Yamaguchi, Japan
Established1972
Course(s)Ube 72 Country Club
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Final year2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Shigeki Maruyama (1993)
264 Hidemichi Tanaka (1996)
To par−21 Dean Wilson (2001)
Final champion
Dean Wilson
Location Map
Ube 72 Country Club
Location in Japan
Ube 72 Country Club

In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat Graham Marsh, Brian Jones and Shozo Miyamoto.[1] This record still stands today.

Tournament hosts
Year(s)Host courseLocation
1976, 1978, 1980–2001Ube 72 Country Club (various courses)Ube, Yamaguchi
1979Hachinohe Country ClubHashikami, Aomori
1974Katayamazu Golf Club (Hakusan)Kaga, Ishikawa
1972–1973, 1975, 1977Yokohama Country Club (West)Yokohama, Kanagawa

Winners
YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upRef
Ube Kosan Open
2001 Dean Wilson267−211 stroke Taichi Teshima
2000 Keiichiro Fukabori276−123 strokes Tatsuya Shiraishi
Toru Taniguchi
1999 K. J. Choi272−163 strokes Kazuhiko Hosokawa
1998 Brandt Jobe271−172 strokes Shigeki Maruyama
1997 Shigenori Mori267−174 strokes Shigemasa Higaki
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
1996 Hidemichi Tanaka264−202 strokes Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Brian Watts
1995 Mitsutaka Kusakabe206[lower-alpha 1]−103 strokes Harumitsu Hamano
Kohki Idoki
Roger Mackay
Katsunari Takahashi
1994 Tsuneyuki Nakajima268−163 strokes Tsukasa Watanabe
1993 Shigeki Maruyama264−202 strokes Todd Hamilton
1992 Tsuneyuki Nakajima275−135 strokes Hirofumi Miyase
Ube Kosan Open
1991 Chen Tze-chung274−102 strokes Saburo Fujiki
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
1990 Tadao Nakamura203[lower-alpha 2]−104 strokes Tadami Ueno[2]
1989 Akihito Yokoyama203[lower-alpha 2]−13Playoff[lower-alpha 3] Yoshimi Niizeki[3]
Pepsi Ube Open
1988 Mamoru Kondo169[lower-alpha 4]−111 stroke Masahiro Kuramoto[4]
1987 Chen Tze-ming278−10Playoff[lower-alpha 5] Hiroshi Makino[5]
1986 Naomichi Ozaki276−121 stroke Fujio Kobayashi
1985 Chen Tze-ming268−204 strokes Katsunari Takahashi
1984 Yasuhiro Funatogawa272−162 strokes Kikuo Arai
Naomichi Ozaki		[6]
1983 Seiichi Kanai274−142 strokes Koichi Inoue[7]
1982 Kikuo Arai277−112 strokes Motomasa Aoki[8]
Pepsi-Wilson Tournament
1981 Graham Marsh270−181 stroke Yutaka Hagawa[9]
1980 Norio Suzuki276−121 stroke Isao Aoki[10]
1979 Mya Aye274−103 strokes Hiroshi Ishii[11]
1978 Masashi Ozaki275−135 strokes Isao Aoki
Fujio Kobayashi
Kosaku Shimada		[12]
1977 Masashi Ozaki274−144 strokes Kuo Chie-Hsiung[13]
1976 Peter Thomson211[lower-alpha 6]−5Playoff[lower-alpha 7] Brian Jones
Graham Marsh
Shozo Miyamoto		[1]
1975 Hsieh Yung-yo283−51 stroke Graham Marsh
Toshiaki Sekimizu		[14]
Pepsi Tournament
1974 Graham Marsh284−4Playoff[lower-alpha 8] Hsieh Yung-yo[15]
1973 Isao Aoki281−7Playoff Kosaku Shimada
1972 Peter Thomson279−91 stroke Chen Chien-chung
Han Chang-sang
Takashi Murakami		[16]
  1. Tournament reduced to 54 holes due to rain which caused the final round to be cancelled.
  2. Tournament reduced to 54 holes due to heavy rains which caused play to be cancelled on the second day.
  3. Yokoyama won with a bogey on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  4. Tournament reduced to 45 holes due to heavy rains which caused play to be cancelled on the second day and the final round to be shortened to nine holes.
  5. Chen won with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  6. Tournament reduced to 54 holes.
  7. Thomson won the sudden-death playoff at the 14th extra hole; Miyamoto was eliminated at the first extra hole, and Jones at the fourth.
  8. Marsh won with a birdie on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff.

References
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  3. McCormack, Mark H. (1990). World of Professional Golf 1990. Sackville. pp. 286, 529–530. ISBN 0948615389.
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  6. McCormack, Mark H. (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 230, 455–456. ISBN 0862541247.
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  8. "Chin is winner". The Evening Sun. Hanover, Pennsylvania. AP. 25 May 1982. p. 9. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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  10. McCormack, Mark H. (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Collins. pp. 176, 385–386. ISBN 0862540054.
  11. "Burma golfer blasts to Japan tourney victory". Detriot Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. AP. 25 June 1979. p. 22. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. McCormack, Mark H. (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 388. ISBN 0385149409.
  13. "Jumbo Ozaki wins Yokohama golf". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. UPI. 30 May 1977. p. 2 (Section3). Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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  15. McCormack, Mark H. (1975). The World of Professional Golf 1975. Collins. pp. 253–254, 431–432. ISBN 0002119552.
  16. "Thomson victor in Pepsi golf". The Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. AP. 22 May 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.


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