Tsuruya Open

Tsuruya Open
Tournament information
LocationKawanishi, Hyōgo, Japan
Established1994
Course(s)Yamanohara Golf Club
Par71
Length6,804 yards (6,222 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥110,000,000
Month playedApril
Final year2014
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Tomohiro Kondo (2011)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
Hiroyuki Fujita
Location map
Yamanohara GC
Location in Japan
Yamanohara GC
Location in the Hyōgo Prefecture

The Tsuruya Open (つるやオープンゴルフトーナメント, Tsuruya ōpun gorufu tōnamento) was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was played annually from 1994 to 2014 on the Yamanohara Course at Yamanohara Golf Club, formerly Sports Shinko Country Club, near Kawanishi, Hyōgo.

The tournament scoring records of 265 (−19) were set by Tomohiro Kondo in 2011. In its final year in 2014, the purse was ¥110,000,000 with ¥22,000,000 going to the winner.

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
2014 Hiroyuki Fujita (3) 271 −13 Playoff Park Sang-hyun
2013 Hideki Matsuyama 266 −18 1 stroke David Oh
2012 Hiroyuki Fujita (2) 269 −15 4 strokes Lee Kyoung-hoon
2011 Tomohiro Kondo 265 −19 4 strokes Bae Sang-moon
Nobuhiro Masuda
2010 Hiroyuki Fujita 199[a] −14 Playoff Toru Taniguchi
2009 Masaya Tomida 198[a] −15 2 strokes David Smail
2008 Hur Suk-ho 272 −12 1 stroke Kim Kyung-tae
2007 Brendan Jones (3) 268 −16 2 strokes Masahiro Kuramoto
Hirofumi Miyase
Toru Taniguchi
2006 Brendan Jones (2) 273 −11 2 strokes Mamo Osanai
2005 Naomichi Ozaki (2) 271 −13 3 strokes Ryoken Kawagishi
Paul Sheehan
2004 Brendan Jones 275 −9 2 strokes Keiichiro Fukabori
Scott Laycock
Tatsuya Mitsuhashi
Taichi Teshima
Shinichi Yokota
2003 Hirofumi Miyase 270 −14 Playoff Takashi Kanemoto
Hisayuki Sasaki
2002 Dean Wilson 273 −11 2 strokes Toru Taniguchi
2001 Hidemichi Tanaka 274 −14 2 strokes Masayuki Kawamura
2000 Richard Backwell 278 −10 Playoff Hidemichi Tanaka
1999 Naomichi Ozaki 273 −15 2 strokes Toru Suzuki
1998 Katsumasa Miyamoto 271 −17 1 stroke Peter McWhinney
1997 Mitsuo Harada 279 −9 4 strokes Shigeki Maruyama
1996 Peter McWhinney 276 −12 1 stroke Peter Senior
1995 Satoshi Higashi 279 −9 1 stroke Kōki Idoki
Katsunori Kuwabara
Roger Mackay
Kiyoshi Maita
Yoshi Mizumaki
1994 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 279 −9 Playoff Tsutomu Higa

Notes

  1. ^ a b Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.