Ube Kosan Open

Ube Kosan Open
Tournament information
LocationUbe, Yamaguchi, Japan
Established1972
Course(s)Ube 72 Country Club
Par72
Length6,859 yards (6,272 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥140,000,000
Month playedNovember
Final year2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Shigeki Maruyama (1993)
264 Hidemichi Tanaka (1996)
To par−21 Dean Wilson (2001)
Final champion
Dean Wilson
Location map
Ube 72 CC
Location in Japan
Ube 72 CC
Location in the Yamaguchi Prefecture

The Ube Kosan Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near Ube, Yamaguchi. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour.

In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat Graham Marsh, Brian Jones and Shozo Miyamoto.[1] This record still stands today.

Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location
1976, 1978, 1980–2001 Ube 72 Country Club (various courses) Ube, Yamaguchi
1979 Hachinohe Country Club Hashikami, Aomori
1974 Katayamazu Golf Club (Hakusan) Kaga, Ishikawa
1972–1973, 1975, 1977 Yokohama Country Club (West) Yokohama, Kanagawa

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Ref.
Ube Kosan Open
2001 Dean Wilson 267 −21 1 stroke Taichi Teshima
2000 Keiichiro Fukabori 276 −12 3 strokes Tatsuya Shiraishi
Toru Taniguchi
1999 K. J. Choi 272 −16 3 strokes Kazuhiko Hosokawa
1998 Brandt Jobe 271 −17 2 strokes Shigeki Maruyama
1997 Shigenori Mori 267 −17 4 strokes Shigemasa Higaki
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
1996 Hidemichi Tanaka 264 −20 2 strokes Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Brian Watts
1995 Mitsutaka Kusakabe 206[a] −10 3 strokes Harumitsu Hamano
Kōki Idoki
Roger Mackay
Katsunari Takahashi
1994 Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 268 −16 3 strokes Tsukasa Watanabe
1993 Shigeki Maruyama 264 −20 2 strokes Todd Hamilton
1992 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 275 −13 5 strokes Hirofumi Miyase
Ube Kosan Open
1991 Chen Tze-chung 274 −10 2 strokes Saburo Fujiki
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
1990 Tadao Nakamura 203[a] −10 4 strokes Tadami Ueno [2]
1989 Akihito Yokoyama 203[a] −13 Playoff[b] Yoshimi Niizeki [3]
Pepsi Ube Open
1988 Mamoru Kondo 169[c] −11 1 stroke Masahiro Kuramoto [4]
1987 Chen Tze-ming (2) 278 −10 Playoff[d] Hiroshi Makino [5]
1986 Naomichi Ozaki 276 −12 1 stroke Fujio Kobayashi
1985 Chen Tze-ming 268 −20 4 strokes Katsunari Takahashi
1984 Yasuhiro Funatogawa 272 −16 2 strokes Kikuo Arai
Naomichi Ozaki		 [6]
1983 Seiichi Kanai 274 −14 2 strokes Kouichi Inoue [7]
1982 Kikuo Arai 277 −11 2 strokes Motomasa Aoki [8]
Pepsi-Wilson Tournament
1981 Graham Marsh (2) 270 −18 1 stroke Yutaka Hagawa [9]
1980 Norio Suzuki 276 −12 1 stroke Isao Aoki [10]
1979 Mya Aye 274 −10 3 strokes Hiroshi Ishii [11]
1978 Masashi Ozaki (2) 275 −13 5 strokes Isao Aoki
Fujio Kobayashi
Kosaku Shimada		 [12]
1977 Masashi Ozaki 274 −14 4 strokes Kuo Chie-Hsiung [13]
1976 Peter Thomson (2) 211[a] −5 Playoff[e] Brian Jones
Graham Marsh
Shozo Miyamoto		 [1]
1975 Hsieh Yung-yo 283 −5 1 stroke Graham Marsh
Toshiaki Sekimizu		 [14]
Pepsi Tournament
1974 Graham Marsh 284 −4 Playoff[f] Hsieh Yung-yo [15]
1973 Isao Aoki 281 −7 Playoff Kosaku Shimada
1972 Peter Thomson 279 −9 1 stroke Chen Chien-chung
Han Chang-sang
Takashi Murakami		 [16]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
  2. ^ Yokoyama won with a bogey on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  3. ^ Shortened to 45 holes due to rain.
  4. ^ Chen won with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  5. ^ Thomson won the sudden-death playoff at the 14th extra hole; Miyamoto was eliminated at the first extra hole, and Jones at the fourth.
  6. ^ Marsh won with a birdie on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff.

References

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  8. ^ "Chin is winner". The Evening Sun. Hanover, Pennsylvania. AP. 25 May 1982. p. 9. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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  12. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 388. ISBN 0385149409.
  13. ^ "Jumbo Ozaki wins Yokohama golf". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. UPI. 30 May 1977. p. 2 (Section3). Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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  15. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1975). The World of Professional Golf 1975. Collins. pp. 253–254, 431–432. ISBN 0002119552.
  16. ^ "Thomson victor in Pepsi golf". The Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. AP. 22 May 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.


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