Yomiuri Open

The Yomiuri Open was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1970 as the Wizard Tournament, a 36-hole invitational tournament,[1] it was played at Hashimoto Country Club in Wakayama until 1979 when it moved to Yomiuri Country Club in Hyōgo. With the move, it also became a full 72-hole tour event, having been extended to 54 holes in 1976, and adopted its new name.[2] It remained at Yomiuri every year except for 1996, when it was played at Wakasu Golf Links in Tokyo. In 2007 it merged with the Mizuno Open to form the Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic.

Not to be confused with Yomiuri International.
Yomiuri Open
Tournament information
LocationNishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
Established1970
Course(s)Yomiuri Country Club
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Final year2006
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 Kazuhiro Fukunaga (1996)
266 Todd Hamilton (1996)
To par−20 Dinesh Chand (2004)
Final champion
Nobuhiro Masuda
Location Map
Yomiuri Country Club
Location in Japan
Yomiuri Country Club
Location in Hyogo Prefecture

Tournament hosts
Year(s)Host courseLocation
1979–1995, 1997–2006Yomiuri Country ClubNishinomiya, Hyōgo
1996Wakasu Golf LinksKōtō, Tokyo
1970–1978Hashimoto Country ClubHashimoto, Wakayama

Winners
YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upRef
Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open
2006 Nobuhiro Masuda274−141 stroke Yang Yong-eun
2005 Satoru Hirota270−181 stroke Shinichi Akiba
Tetsuji Hiratsuka
2004 Dinesh Chand268−204 strokes Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Hur Suk-ho
2003 Hideto Tanihara200[lower-alpha 1]−163 strokes Nobuhito Sato
Tamanoi Yomiuri Open
2002 Toru Taniguchi270−182 strokes Satoru Hirota
Daisuke Maruyama
2001 Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa272−16Playoff Toru Suzuki
2000 Yoshi Mizumaki271−173 strokes Hisayuki Sasaki
Super Mario Yomiuri Open
1999 Kim Jong-duck270−183 strokes Hajime Meshiai
Hidemichi Tanaka
Yomiuri Open
1998 Brian Watts134[lower-alpha 2]−101 stroke Kaname Yokoo
1997 Shigeki Maruyama267−172 strokes Naomichi Ozaki
Pocari Sweat Yomiuri Open
1996 Kazuhiro Fukunaga266−18Playoff Todd Hamilton
1995 Eduardo Herrera272−121 stroke Hiroyuki Fujita
Yomiuri Open
1994 Tsukasa Watanabe270−142 strokes Anthony Gilligan
Yomiuri Sapporo Open
1993 Katsuji Hasegawa203[lower-alpha 3]−13Playoff Hajime Meshiai
1992 David Ishii278−101 stroke Brian Watts
Yomiuri Open
1991 Tsuneyuki Nakajima272−163 strokes Rick Gibson
1990 Saburo Fujiki205[lower-alpha 3]−111 stroke Taisei Inagaki
1989 Hajime Meshiai205[lower-alpha 3]−112 strokes Naomichi Ozaki
1988 Masahiro Kuramoto277−114 strokes Ian Baker-Finch
Tsukasa Watanabe
Yoshikazu Yokoshima
Yomiuri Sapporo Beer
1987 Satoshi Higashi280−81 stroke Graham Marsh
Hajime Meshiai
Yomiuri Open
1986 Koichi Suzuki273−192 strokes Brian Jones
1985 Tsuneyuki Nakajima275−173 strokes Katsuji Hasegawa
1984 Saburo Fujiki281−114 strokes Shinsaku Maeda[5]
1983 Graham Marsh280−12Playoff Tōru Nakamura
1982 Terry Gale276−163 strokes Masahiro Kuramoto
Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Namio Takasu
Nobumitsu Yuhara		[6]
1981 Namio Takasu285−7Playoff Hsieh Yung-yo[2]
1980 Isao Aoki283−91 stroke Teruo Sugihara[7]
1979 Teruo Sugihara287−5Playoff Masashi Ozaki
Wizard Tournament
1978 Tōru Nakamura214[lower-alpha 4]−21 stroke Kikuo Arai
Yoshitaka Yamamoto		[1]
1977 Graham Marsh220[lower-alpha 4]+42 strokes Seiji Kusakabe[8]
1976 Graham Marsh212[lower-alpha 4]−41 stroke Haruo Yasuda[9]
1975 Graham Marsh141[lower-alpha 5]−31 stroke Lu Liang-Huan[10][11]
1974 Teruo Sugihara146[lower-alpha 5]+2Playoff Kosaku Shimada[12]
1973 Yoshitaka Yamamoto
1972 Masashi Ozaki144[lower-alpha 5]EPlayoff Peter Thomson[13]
1971 Peter Thomson143[lower-alpha 5]−11 stroke Lu Liang-Huan[14][15]
1970 Hsieh Yung-yo146[lower-alpha 5]+2[16]
  1. Tournament reduced to 54 holes after the first round was cancelled due to fog.[3]
  2. Tournament reduced to 36 holes after both the second and final rounds were cancelled due to rain.[4]
  3. Tournament reduced to 54 holes.
  4. Tournament contested over 54 holes.
  5. Tournament contested over 36 holes.

References
  1. McCormack, Mark (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 386. ISBN 0385149409.
  2. McCormack, Mark (1982). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982. Springwood Books. pp. 237–238, 456. ISBN 0862541018.
  3. "Tanihara on fire". Japan Times. Kyodo News. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. "Watts picks up first victory on Japanese golf tour". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. AP. 22 June 1998. p. E5. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. McCormack, Mark (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 232, 459–460. ISBN 0862541247.
  6. "Gale storms in to post maiden Japan victory". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 June 1982. p. 36 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  7. McCormack, Mark (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Springwood Books. pp. 174, 381–382. ISBN 0862540054.
  8. "Marsh victor for the 3rd time". Pacific Stars And Stripes. 10 May 1977 – via NewspaperArchive.
  9. "Marsh in with a hot finish". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 10 May 1976. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via Google News Archive.
  10. McCormack, Mark (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 290–291, 479–480. ISBN 000211996X.
  11. "Marsh darts out of bunch to win title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 May 1975. p. 26 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  12. "Sugihara wins sudden death playoff". The Straits Times. Singapore. 4 May 1974. p. 29 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  13. "Ozaki wins playoff". The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 May 1972. p. 29 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  14. "Thomson wins". The Straits Times. Singapore. 4 May 1971. p. 23 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  15. "Australian golfer wins Wizard event". Uniontown Evening Standard. Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Associated Press. 4 May 1971 – via NewspaperArchive.
  16. "Chinese pro Wizard champ". Star News. Pasadena, California. 5 May 1970 – via NewspaperArchive.


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