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Japan Open Golf Championship

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Established
  
1927

Organized by
  
JGA

Par
  
70 in 2016

Location
  
Varies – Iruma, Saitama in 2016

Course(s)
  
Varies – Sayamai Golf Club in 2016

Length
  
7,208 yd (6,591 m) in 2016

The Japan Open Golf Championship (日本オープンゴルフ選手権競技, Nihon ōpun gorufu senshu kenkyōgi) is Japan's national open golf championship. As of 2016, it is one of the three richest tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, with a prize fund of ¥200 million. It is also the tour's designated "Premier event" for the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, with a minimum winner's points allocation of 32 points. The winner also receives an invitation to the next year's Open Championship.

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Winners

  • 1972 Hon Chang Sang –  South Korea
  • 1971 Yoshimasa Fujii –  Japan
  • 1970 Mitsuhiro Kitta –  Japan
  • 1969 Hideyo Sugimoto –  Japan
  • 1968 Takaaki Kono –  Japan
  • 1967 Tadashi Kitta –  Japan
  • 1966 Seichi Sato –  Japan
  • 1965 Tadashi Kitta –  Japan
  • 1964 Hideyo Sugimoto –  Japan
  • 1963 Toichiro Toda –  Japan
  • 1962 Teruo Sugihara –  Japan
  • 1961 Kenji Hosoishi –  Japan
  • 1960 Haruyoshi Kobari –  Japan
  • 1959 Chen Ching-Po –  Taiwan
  • 1958 Torakichi Nakamura –  Japan
  • 1957 Haruyoshi Kobari –  Japan
  • 1956 Torakichi Nakamura –  Japan
  • 1955 Koichi Ono –  Japan
  • 1954 Yoshiro Hayashi –  Japan
  • 1953 Son Shi-Kin –  Japan
  • 1952 Torakichi Nakamura –  Japan
  • 1951 Son Shi-Kin –  Japan
  • 1950 Yoshiro Hayashi –  Japan
  • 1942–49 No tournament due to World War II
  • 1941 Tokuharu Nobuhara –  Japan
  • 1940 Tomekichi Miyamoto –  Japan
  • 1939 Toichira Toda –  Japan
  • 1938 Rin(Lin) Man-Puku –  Japan
  • 1937 Chin Sei-Sui –  Taiwan
  • 1936 Tomekichi Miyamoto –  Japan
  • 1935 Tomekichi Miyamoto –  Japan
  • 1934 No tournament due to flood damage
  • 1933 Kodekichi Nakamura –  Japan
  • 1932 Tomekichi Miyamoto –  Japan
  • 1931 Rokuzo Asami –  Japan
  • 1930 Tomekichi Miyamoto –  Japan
  • 1929 Tomekichi Miyamoto –  Japan
  • 1928 Rokuzo Asami –  Japan
  • 1927 Rokuro Akahoshi –  Japan
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    References

    Japan Open Golf Championship Wikipedia