Golf Digest Tournament

Golf Digest Tournament
Tournament information
LocationSusono, Shizuoka, Japan
Established1971
Course(s)Tōmei Country Club
Par71
Length6,781 yards (6,201 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥100,000,000
Month playedOctober
Final year1997
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Eiji Mizoguchi (1994)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
United States Brandt Jobe
Location map
Tōmei CC is located in Japan
Tōmei CC
Tōmei CC
Location in Japan
Tōmei CC is located in Shizuoka Prefecture
Tōmei CC
Tōmei CC
Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture

The Golf Digest Tournament was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1971 and was part of the Japan Golf Tour from 1973 to 1997. It was played in October at the Tōmei Country Club near Susono, Shizuoka.

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Ref.
Golf Digest Tournament
1997 United States Brandt Jobe 267 −17 Playoff Japan Toru Suzuki
1996 Japan Yoshi Mizumaki 273 −11 1 stroke Japan Satoshi Higashi
Japan Shoichi Kuwabara
1995 Australia Stewart Ginn 267 −17 2 strokes Canada Rick Gibson
Asahi Beer Golf Digest Tournament
1994 Japan Eiji Mizoguchi 265 −19 5 strokes Australia Stewart Ginn
Japan Hiroshi Ueda
1993 Japan Masashi Ozaki (3) 268 −16 2 strokes Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1992 Japan Seiki Okuda 272 −12 1 stroke Australia Roger Mackay
1991 Japan Harumitsu Hamano 273 −11 1 stroke Japan Masashi Ozaki
1990 Japan Noboru Sugai 274 −10 3 strokes United States Larry Mize
Japan Masashi Ozaki
Polaroid Cup Golf Digest Tournament
1989 Japan Yoshikazu Yokoshima 268 −16 6 strokes Japan Masaji Kusakabe
Japan Kiyoshi Murota
1988 Japan Masashi Ozaki (2) 272 −12 Playoff Australia Brian Jones
1987 Australia Ian Baker-Finch 275 −9 4 strokes Japan Kazushige Kono
1986 Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 275 −6 Playoff United States David Ishii
1985 United States D. A. Weibring 268 −16 2 strokes Japan Yasuhiro Funatogawa
Golf Digest Tournament
1984 Japan Shinsaku Maeda 274 −14 3 strokes Japan Seiji Ebihara [1]
1983 Japan Seiichi Kanai 276 −12 2 strokes Japan Kouichi Inoue
1982 Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan 274 −14 1 stroke Japan Akira Yabe [2]
1981 Japan Toyotake Nakao 287 −10 Playoff Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1980 Japan Teruo Sugihara (2) 275 −13 2 strokes Japan Isao Aoki [3]
1979 Taiwan Kuo Chie-Hsiung 206[a] −10 3 strokes Japan Fujio Kobayashi [4]
1978 Japan Masaru Amono 280 −8 1 stroke Japan Shinsaku Maeda
Japan Masashi Ozaki
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1977 Japan Takashi Murakami (2) 275 −13 4 strokes Japan Masashi Ozaki [6]
1976 Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima 279 −9 2 strokes Japan Kikuo Arai
1975 Japan Kenichi Yamada 240[b] −12 1 stroke Japan Shozo Miyamoto [7]
1974 Japan Takashi Murakami 271 −17 1 stroke Taiwan Kuo Chie-Hsiung [8]
1973 Japan Teruo Sugihara 274 −14 2 strokes Japan Tōru Nakamura [9]
1972 Japan Haruo Yasuda 204 −12 3 strokes Taiwan Hsieh Yung-yo
Japan Shohei Nishida
[10]
1971 Japan Masashi Ozaki

Notes

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  1. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
  2. ^ Shortened to 63 holes due to Thyphoon Cora.

References

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  1. ^ "Golf Digest tourney". The York Dispatch. York, Pennsylvania. UPI. 15 October 1984. p. 29. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Min Nan struggles for his 13th win". The Straits Times. 18 October 1982. p. 37. Retrieved 29 January 2021 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  3. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Collins. pp. 183–184, 406–407. ISBN 0862540054.
  4. ^ "Wins Golf Digest tourney". The Times Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 22 October 1979. p. 2C. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. p. 252. ISBN 0385149409.
  6. ^ "Results | Golf". The Guardian. London, England. 24 October 1977. p. 17. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 296, 495. ISBN 000211996X.
  8. ^ "Murukami triumphs in Golf Digest". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. AP. 7 October 1974. p. 51. Retrieved 30 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1974). The World of Professional Golf 1974. Collins. pp. 324, 553–554. ISBN 0002119544.
  10. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1973). The World of Professional Golf 1973. Collins. pp. 313, 531–532. ISBN 0002119463.
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