Japan Golf Tour Championship

The Japan Golf Tour Championship (日本ゴルフツアー選手権, Nihon gorufu tsuā senshuken) is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 2000, it is one of the four major championships on the tour.

BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup
Tournament information
LocationKasama, Ibaraki, Japan
Established2000
Course(s)Shishido Hills Country Club
Par71
Length7,387 yards (6,755 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥150,000,000
Month playedJune
Tournament record score
Aggregate268 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
To par−20 as above
Current champion
Japan Takumi Kanaya
Location Map
Shishido Hills CC is located in Japan
Shishido Hills CC
Shishido Hills CC
Location in Japan
Shishido Hills CC is located in Ibaraki Prefecture
Shishido Hills CC
Shishido Hills CC
Location in the Ibaraki Prefecture

Tournament hosts

The Japan Golf Tour Championship has been played at Shishido Hills Country Club since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, it was played at Horai Country Club.

Prize money

Prize money was ¥120,000,000 from 2000 to 2005 and has been ¥150,000,000 since 2006, except for 2010 when it was ¥120,000,000. In 2000 the weather shortened the event to 54 holes and the prize money was reduced by 25% from ¥120,000,000 to ¥90,000,000.

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup
2023Japan Takumi Kanaya273−112 strokesJapan Yuki Inamori
Japan Hiroshi Iwata
2022Japan Kazuki Higa272−121 strokeJapan Tomoharu Otsuki
Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills
2021Japan Ryosuke Kinoshita270−145 strokesJapan Yuki Furuwaka
2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019Japan Mikumu Horikawa269−154 strokesJapan Shugo Imahira
2018Japan Kodai Ichihara272−121 strokeJapan Ryuko Tokimatsu
2017South Africa Shaun Norris271−134 strokesUnited States Seungsu Han
2016Japan Yosuke Tsukada282−21 strokeNew Zealand Michael Hendry
2015China Liang Wenchong270−145 strokesAustralia Brad Kennedy
Japan Ryutaro Nagano
South Korea Song Young-han
2014Japan Yoshitaka Takeya271−172 strokesSouth Korea Lee Sang-hee
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2013Japan Satoshi Kodaira274−141 strokeThailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat
South Korea Hur Suk-ho
Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills
2012Japan Yoshinori Fujimoto271−132 strokesJapan Masamichi Uehira
2011South Korea Park Jae-bum278−61 strokeJapan Daisuke Maruyama
2010Japan Katsumasa Miyamoto (2)279−53 strokesJapan Hiroyuki Fujita
UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills
2009Japan Yuji Igarashi276−81 strokeSouth Korea Jang Ik-jae
New Zealand David Smail
Japan Toru Suzuki
2008Japan Hidemasa Hoshino272−125 strokesAustralia Brendan Jones
Japan Takao Nogami
2007Japan Shingo Katayama271−91 strokeJapan Naoya Takemoto
2006Japan Tatsuhiko Takahashi273−73 strokesJapan Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup
2005Japan Kazuhiko Hosokawa273−7PlayoffJapan Yasuharu Imano
New Zealand David Smail
2004South Korea Hur Suk-ho279−5PlayoffJapan Tomohiro Kondo
2003Japan Toshimitsu Izawa (2)270−141 strokeNew Zealand David Smail
Japan Tadahiro Takayama
Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup
2002Japan Nobuhito Sato268−206 strokesJapan Kenichi Kuboya
2001Japan Katsumasa Miyamoto273−157 strokesColombia Eduardo Herrera
India Jeev Milkha Singh
JGTO TPC iiyama Cup
2000Japan Toshimitsu Izawa203[lower-alpha 1]−133 strokesJapan Kaname Yokoo

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

See also

Notes

  1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
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