Yomiuri Open

Not to be confused with Yomiuri International.
Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open
Tournament information
LocationNishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
Established1970
Course(s)Yomiuri Country Club
Par72
Length7,161 yards (6,548 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥100,000,000
Month playedJune
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 CC
Location in Japan
Yomiuri CC
Location in the Hyogo Prefecture

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.

Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location
1979–1995, 1997–2006 Yomiuri Country Club Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
1996 Wakasu Golf Links Kōtō, Tokyo
1970–1978 Hashimoto Country Club Hashimoto, Wakayama

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Ref.
Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open
2006 Nobuhiro Masuda 274 −14 1 stroke Yang Yong-eun
2005 Satoru Hirota 270 −18 1 stroke Shinichi Akiba
Tetsuji Hiratsuka
2004 Dinesh Chand 268 −20 4 strokes Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Hur Suk-ho
2003 Hideto Tanihara 200[a] −16 3 strokes Nobuhito Sato [3]
Tamanoi Yomiuri Open
2002 Toru Taniguchi 270 −18 2 strokes Satoru Hirota
Daisuke Maruyama
2001 Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa 272 −16 Playoff Toru Suzuki
2000 Yoshi Mizumaki 271 −17 3 strokes Hisayuki Sasaki
Super Mario Yomiuri Open
1999 Kim Jong-duck 270 −18 3 strokes Hajime Meshiai
Hidemichi Tanaka
Yomiuri Open
1998 Brian Watts 134[b] −10 1 stroke Kaname Yokoo [4]
1997 Shigeki Maruyama 267 −17 2 strokes Naomichi Ozaki
Pocari Sweat Yomiuri Open
1996 Kazuhiro Fukunaga 266 −18 Playoff Todd Hamilton
1995 Eduardo Herrera 272 −12 1 stroke Hiroyuki Fujita
Yomiuri Open
1994 Tsukasa Watanabe 270 −14 2 strokes Anthony Gilligan
Yomiuri Sapporo Beer Open
1993 Katsuji Hasegawa 203[a] −13 Playoff Hajime Meshiai
1992 David Ishii 278 −10 1 stroke Brian Jones
1991 Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 272 −16 3 strokes Rick Gibson
1990 Saburo Fujiki (2) 205[a] −11 1 stroke Taisei Inagaki
1989 Hajime Meshiai 205[a] −11 2 strokes Naomichi Ozaki
1988 Masahiro Kuramoto 277 −11 4 strokes Ian Baker-Finch
Tsukasa Watanabe
Yoshikazu Yokoshima
1987 Satoshi Higashi 280 −8 1 stroke Graham Marsh
Hajime Meshiai
1986 Koichi Suzuki 273 −19 2 strokes Brian Jones
1985 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 275 −17 3 strokes Katsuji Hasegawa
Yomiuri Open
1984 Saburo Fujiki 281 −11 4 strokes Shinsaku Maeda [5]
1983 Graham Marsh (4) 280 −12 Playoff Tōru Nakamura
1982 Terry Gale 276 −16 3 strokes Masahiro Kuramoto
Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Namio Takasu
Nobumitsu Yuhara		 [6]
1981 Namio Takasu 285 −7 Playoff Hsieh Yung-yo [2]
1980 Isao Aoki 283 −9 1 stroke Teruo Sugihara [7]
1979 Teruo Sugihara (2) 287 −5 Playoff Masashi Ozaki
Wizard Tournament
1978 Tōru Nakamura 214 −2 1 stroke Kikuo Arai
Yoshitaka Yamamoto		 [1]
1977 Graham Marsh (3) 220 +4 2 strokes Seiji Kusakabe [8]
1976 Graham Marsh (2) 212 −4 1 stroke Haruo Yasuda [9]
1975 Graham Marsh 141 −3 1 stroke Lu Liang-Huan [10][11]
1974 Teruo Sugihara 146 +2 Playoff Kosaku Shimada [12]
1973 Yoshitaka Yamamoto
1972 Masashi Ozaki 144 E Playoff Peter Thomson [13]
1971 Peter Thomson 143 −1 1 stroke Lu Liang-Huan [14][15]
1970 Hsieh Yung-yo 146 +2 [16]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
  2. ^ Shortened to 36 holes due to weather.

References

  1. ^ a b McCormack, Mark (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 386–387. ISBN 0385149409.
  2. ^ a b 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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