Kirin Open

The Kirin Open was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1972 as the season ending event on the Asia Golf Circuit, replacing the Yomiuri International which had been cancelled when sponsors decided to discontinue the event.[1][2] It was also a fixture on the Japan Golf Tour from 1974 until 2001.

Kirin Open
Tournament information
Location Japan
Established1972
Course(s)Sobu Country Club (1972–1976)
Ibaraki Golf Club (1977–2001)
Tour(s)Asia Golf Circuit (until 1999)
Japan Golf Tour (from 1974)
FormatStroke play
Final year2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Kuo Chie-Hsiung (1978)
Final champion
Shingo Katayama

It was played at Sobu Country Club in Inzai until 1976. In 1977 Dunlop became title sponsors and the tournament was moved to Ibaraki Golf Club in Ibaraki.

Winners
YearWinnerCountryScore
(total)		Margin
of victory		Runner(s)-upNotes
Asia Pacific Open Golf Kirin Open
2001Shingo Katayama Japan2716 strokes Hajime Meshiai
2000Shingo Katayama Japan2802 strokes Lin Keng-chi
Andre Stolz
Peter Senior
Kirin Open
1999K. J. Choi South Korea204[lower-alpha 1]Playoff[lower-alpha 2] Jeev Milkha Singh[3]
1998Frankie Miñoza Philippines2791 stroke Tsukasa Watanabe
Brian Watts
Hidemichi Tanaka
1997Kim Jong-duck South Korea2782 strokes Hirofumi Miyase
Shigeki Maruyama
Tateo Ozaki
Brian Watts
1996Yoshinori Kaneko Japan2781 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Nobuo Serizawa
Dunlop Open
1995Peter Senior Australia2795 strokes Brian Watts[4]
1994Masashi Ozaki Japan2741 stroke Hsieh Chin-sheng[5]
1993Hajime Meshiai Japan2752 strokes Katsunari Takahashi
Kevin Wentworth		[6]
1992Masashi Ozaki Japan286Playoff[lower-alpha 3] Brent Franklin[7]
1991Roger Mackay Australia2722 strokes Teruo Sugihara[8]
1990Frankie Miñoza Philippines205[lower-alpha 4]Playoff[lower-alpha 5] Teruo Sugihara[9]
1989Terry Gale Australia2841 stroke Peter Senior
Chen Tze-ming		[10]
1988Masashi Ozaki Japan2783 strokes David Ishii[11]
Dunlop International Open
1987Isao Aoki Japan2771 stroke Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Tsuneyuki Nakajima		[12]
1986Hideto Shigenobu Japan2812 strokes David Ishii
Masahiro Kuramoto		[13]
1985Chen Tze-chung Taiwan2771 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima[14]
1984John Jacobs United States2832 strokes Tateo Ozaki[15]
1983Larry Nelson United States201[lower-alpha 6]1 stroke Masahiro Kuramoto[17]
1982Tsuneyuki Nakajima Japan2765 strokes Saburo Fujiki[18]
1981Kosaku Shimada Japan2862 strokes Akira Yabe
Payne Stewart
Koichi Uehara		[19]
1980Masashi Ozaki Japan2775 strokes Graham Marsh
Ho Ming-chung		[20]
1979Hiroshi Ishii Japan2783 strokes Seiji Ebihara
Kazunari Takahashi
Tateo Ozaki		[21]
1978Kuo Chie-Hsiung Taiwan26511 strokes Bob Byman[22]
1977Ben Arda Philippines2822 strokes Terry Kendall
Tsuneyuki Nakajima		[23]
Sobu International Open
1976Ben Arda Philippines2774 strokes Chen Chien-chung[24]
1975Teruo Sugihara Japan2822 strokes Ted Ball
Hsu Sheng-San
Hideyo Sugimoto		[25]
1974Lu Liang-Huan Taiwan2804 strokes Fumio Tanaka
Masashi Ozaki		[26]
1973Shigeru Uchida Japan279Playoff[lower-alpha 7] Masashi Ozaki[27]
1972Hsieh Min-Nan Taiwan2792 strokes Ben Arda[28]
  1. Third round cancelled due to rain.[3]
  2. Choi won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
  3. Ozaki won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
  4. Third round cancelled due to rain.[9]
  5. Minoza won with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden death playoff.
  6. Second round cancelled due to rain.[16]
  7. Uchida won with a 180-yard hole-out for eagle on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.

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