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 an annual major golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Currently its main sponsor is Mori Building. It was founded in 2000. It has been played at Shishido Hills Country Club since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, it was played at Horai Country Club.

Japan Golf Tour Championship
Tournament information
LocationKasama, Ibaraki
Established2000
Course(s)Shishido Hills Country Club
Par71
Length7,384 yards (6,752 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 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
Current champion
Mikumu Horikawa

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

YearWinnerCountryScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills
2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019Mikumu Horikawa Japan269−154 strokes Shugo Imahira
2018Kodai Ichihara Japan272−121 stroke Ryuko Tokimatsu
2017Shaun Norris South Africa271−134 strokes Seungsu Han
2016Yosuke Tsukada Japan282−21 stroke Michael Hendry
2015Liang Wenchong China270−145 strokes Brad Kennedy
Ryutaro Nagano
Song Young-han
2014Yoshitaka Takeya Japan271−172 strokes Lee Sang-hee
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2013Satoshi Kodaira Japan274−141 stroke Kiradech Aphibarnrat
Hur Suk-ho
Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills
2012Yoshinori Fujimoto Japan271−132 strokes Masamichi Uehira
2011Park Jae-bum South Korea278−61 stroke Daisuke Maruyama
2010Katsumasa Miyamoto Japan279−53 strokes Hiroyuki Fujita
UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2009Yuji Igarashi Japan276−81 stroke Jang Ik-jae
David Smail
Toru Suzuki
2008Hidemasa Hoshino Japan272−125 strokes Brendan Jones
Takao Nogami
2007Shingo Katayama Japan271−91 stroke Naoya Takemoto
2006Tatsuhiko Takahashi Japan273−73 strokes Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup
2005Kazuhiko Hosokawa Japan273−7Playoff Yasuharu Imano
David Smail
2004Hur Suk-ho South Korea279−5Playoff Tomohiro Kondo
2003Toshimitsu Izawa Japan270−141 stroke David Smail
Tadahiro Takayama
Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup
2002Nobuhito Sato Japan268−206 strokes Kenichi Kuboya
2001Katsumasa Miyamoto Japan273−157 strokes Eduardo Herrera
Jeev Milkha Singh
JGTO TPC iiyama Cup
2000Toshimitsu Izawa Japan203*−133 strokes Kaname Yokoo

PO Indicates a win in a playoff
* Weather-shortened to 54 holes
Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

JGT major golf championships

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