Golf Digest Tournament

Golf Digest Tournament
Tournament information
LocationSusono, Shizuoka, Japan
Established1971
Course(s)Tōmei Country Club
Par71
Length6,781 yards (6,201 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥100,000,000
Month playedOctober
Final year1997
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Eiji Mizoguchi (1994)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
Brandt Jobe
Location map
Tōmei CC
Location in Japan
Tōmei CC
Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture

The Golf Digest Tournament was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1971 and was part of the Japan Golf Tour from 1973 to 1997. It was played in October at the Tōmei Country Club near Susono, Shizuoka.

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Ref.
Golf Digest Tournament
1997 Brandt Jobe 267 −17 Playoff Toru Suzuki
1996 Yoshi Mizumaki 273 −11 1 stroke Satoshi Higashi
Shoichi Kuwabara
1995 Stewart Ginn 267 −17 2 strokes Rick Gibson
Asahi Beer Golf Digest Tournament
1994 Eiji Mizoguchi 265 −19 5 strokes Stewart Ginn
Hiroshi Ueda
1993 Masashi Ozaki (3) 268 −16 2 strokes Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1992 Seiki Okuda 272 −12 1 stroke Roger Mackay
1991 Harumitsu Hamano 273 −11 1 stroke Masashi Ozaki
1990 Noboru Sugai 274 −10 3 strokes Larry Mize
Masashi Ozaki
Polaroid Cup Golf Digest Tournament
1989 Yoshikazu Yokoshima 268 −16 6 strokes Masaji Kusakabe
Kiyoshi Murota
1988 Masashi Ozaki (2) 272 −12 Playoff Brian Jones
1987 Ian Baker-Finch 275 −9 4 strokes Kazushige Kono
1986 Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 275 −6 Playoff David Ishii
1985 D. A. Weibring 268 −16 2 strokes Yasuhiro Funatogawa
Golf Digest Tournament
1984 Shinsaku Maeda 274 −14 3 strokes Seiji Ebihara [1]
1983 Seiichi Kanai 276 −12 2 strokes Kouichi Inoue
1982 Hsieh Min-Nan 274 −14 1 stroke Akira Yabe [2]
1981 Toyotake Nakao 287 −10 Playoff Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1980 Teruo Sugihara (2) 275 −13 2 strokes Isao Aoki [3]
1979 Kuo Chie-Hsiung 206[a] −10 3 strokes Fujio Kobayashi [4]
1978 Masaru Amono 280 −8 1 stroke Shinsaku Maeda
Masashi Ozaki
[5]
1977 Takashi Murakami (2) 275 −13 4 strokes Masashi Ozaki [6]
1976 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 279 −9 2 strokes Kikuo Arai
1975 Kenichi Yamada 240[b] −12 1 stroke Shozo Miyamoto [7]
1974 Takashi Murakami 271 −17 1 stroke Kuo Chie-Hsiung [8]
1973 Teruo Sugihara 274 −14 2 strokes Tōru Nakamura [9]
1972 Haruo Yasuda 204 −12 3 strokes Hsieh Yung-yo
Shohei Nishida
[10]
1971 Masashi Ozaki

Notes

  1. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
  2. ^ Shortened to 63 holes due to Thyphoon Cora.

References

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  2. ^ "Min Nan struggles for his 13th win". The Straits Times. 18 October 1982. p. 37. Retrieved 29 January 2021 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  3. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Collins. pp. 183–184, 406–407. ISBN 0862540054.
  4. ^ "Wins Golf Digest tourney". The Times Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 22 October 1979. p. 2C. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. p. 252. ISBN 0385149409.
  6. ^ "Results | Golf". The Guardian. London, England. 24 October 1977. p. 17. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 296, 495. ISBN 000211996X.
  8. ^ "Murukami triumphs in Golf Digest". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. AP. 7 October 1974. p. 51. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1974). The World of Professional Golf 1974. Collins. pp. 324, 553–554. ISBN 0002119544.
  10. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1973). The World of Professional Golf 1973. Collins. pp. 313, 531–532. ISBN 0002119463.