Japan PGA Match-Play Championship

Japan PGA Match-Play Championship
Tournament information
LocationHokkaido, Japan
Established1975
Course(s)Nidom Classic Course
Par72
Length6,957 yards (6,361 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatMatch play
Prize fund¥80,000,000
Month playedSeptember
Final year2003
Tournament record score
Score8 and 7 Todd Hamilton (1994)
Final champion
Todd Hamilton
Location map
Nidom Classic Course
Location in Japan
Nidom Classic Course
Location in the Hokkaido Prefecture

The Japan PGA Match-Play Championship was a professional match play golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1975 to 2003. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour and held at a number of different courses throughout Japan.

Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location
1994–2003 Nidom Classic Course Tomakomai, Hokkaido
1993 Higashinomiya Country Club Motegi, Tochigi
1992 Prestige Country Club Tochigi, Tochigi
1991 Shinyo Country Club Toki, Gifu
1988–1990 Green Academy Club Shirakawa, Fukushima
1983–1987 Mito Golf Club Mito, Ibaraki
1975–1982 Totsuka Country Club (West) Yokohama, Kanagawa

Winners

Year Winner Score Runner-up
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship
2003 Todd Hamilton (2) 3 and 2 David Smail
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Promise Cup
2002 Nobuhito Sato 5 and 4 Tomohiro Kondo
2001 Dean Wilson 2 and 1 Lin Keng-chi
2000 Kaname Yokoo 2 and 1 Toru Taniguchi
1999 Mamo Osanai 4 and 3 Toru Taniguchi
1998 Katsunori Kuwabara 38 holes Shinichi Yokota
1997 Shigeki Maruyama 3 and 2 Peter Teravainen
1996 Nobuo Serizawa 1 up Brandt Jobe
1995 Katsuyoshi Tomori 2 and 1 Shigeki Maruyama
1994 Todd Hamilton 8 and 7 Ikuo Shirahama
1993 Yoshitaka Yamamoto 3 and 2 Koichi Suzuki
1992 Tsuneyuki Nakajima (3) 3 and 1 Naomichi Ozaki
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Unisys Cup
1991 Satoshi Higashi 2 up Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1990 Naomichi Ozaki 6 and 5 Brian Jones
1989 Masashi Ozaki 3 and 2 Hiroshi Makino
1988 David Ishii 6 and 5 Noboru Sugai
1987 Katsunari Takahashi (2) 37 holes Masashi Ozaki
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship
1986 Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 6 and 5 Keiichi Kobayashi
1985 Katsunari Takahashi 2 and 1 Akira Yabe
1984 Tōru Nakamura 4 and 3 Kouichi Inoue
1983 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 38 holes Hideto Shigenobu
1982 Isao Aoki (4) 4 and 2 Yutaka Hagawa
1981 Isao Aoki (3) 38 holes Katsuji Hasegawa
1980 Haruo Yasuda 2 and 1 Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1979 Isao Aoki (2) 1 up Hsieh Min-Nan
1978 Isao Aoki 2 and 1 Takahiro Takeyasu
1977 Tadashi Kitta 1 up Tōru Nakamura
1976 Kazuo Yoshikawa 2 and 1 Kikuo Arai
1975 Takashi Murakami 2 up Namio Takasu