Descente Classic

Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
Tournament information
LocationGotemba, Shizuoka, Japan
Established1992
Course(s)Taiheiyo Club
(Ichihara Course)
Par72
Length6,796 yards (6,214 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥90,000,000
Month playedApril
Final year1999
Tournament record score
Aggregate270 Peter Teravainen (1997)
To par−17 Dinesh Chand (1998)
Final champion
Masayuki Kawamura
Location map
Taiheiyo Club
Location in Japan
Taiheiyo Club
Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture

The Descente Classic was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1992 by sponsors Descente, it was renamed the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup in 1995 and played until 1999, after which it was merged with the KSB Open to create the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.

Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location
1998–1999 Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course) Ichihara, Chiba
1996–1997 Edosaki Country Club Inashiki, Ibaraki
1993–1995 Century Miki Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo
1992 Century Yokawa Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
1999 Masayuki Kawamura 205[a] −11 Playoff Kazuhiko Hosokawa
Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1998 Dinesh Chand 271 −17 2 strokes Carlos Franco
Hidemichi Tanaka
1997 Peter Teravainen 270 −14 2 strokes Todd Hamilton
1996 Masanobu Kimura 273 −11 2 strokes Hideyuki Sato
1995 Satoshi Higashi 282 −6 1 stroke Katsuyoshi Tomori
Descente Classic
1994 Brian Watts 280 −8 3 strokes Hisao Inoue
Hideki Kase
Frankie Miñoza
Tsukasa Watanabe
1993 Tetsu Nishikawa 281 −7 2 strokes Shigenori Mori
Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1992 Yoshinori Kaneko 279 −9 2 strokes Masanobu Kimura

Notes

  1. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

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