Ube Kosan Open

The Ube Kosan Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near Ube, Yamaguchi. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour.

Ube Kosan Open

Tournament information
Location	Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
Established	1972
Course(s)	Ube 72 Country Club
Par	72
Length	6,859 yards (6,272 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥140,000,000
Month played	November
Final year	2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate	264 Shigeki Maruyama (1993) 264 Hidemichi Tanaka (1996)
To par	−21 Dean Wilson (2001)
Final champion
Dean Wilson
Location map
Ube 72 CC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Ube 72 CC Location in the Yamaguchi Prefecture Show map of Yamaguchi Prefecture

In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat Graham Marsh, Brian Jones and Shozo Miyamoto.^[1] This record still stands today.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)	Host course	Location
1976, 1978, 1980–2001	Ube 72 Country Club (various courses)	Ube, Yamaguchi
1979	Hachinohe Country Club	Hashikami, Aomori
1974	Katayamazu Golf Club (Hakusan)	Kaga, Ishikawa
1972–1973, 1975, 1977	Yokohama Country Club (West)	Yokohama, Kanagawa

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
Ube Kosan Open
2001	Dean Wilson	267	−21	1 stroke	Taichi Teshima
2000	Keiichiro Fukabori	276	−12	3 strokes	Tatsuya Shiraishi Toru Taniguchi
1999	K. J. Choi	272	−16	3 strokes	Kazuhiko Hosokawa
1998	Brandt Jobe	271	−17	2 strokes	Shigeki Maruyama
1997	Shigenori Mori	267	−17	4 strokes	Shigemasa Higaki
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
1996	Hidemichi Tanaka	264	−20	2 strokes	Tsuneyuki Nakajima Brian Watts
1995	Mitsutaka Kusakabe	206[a]	−10	3 strokes	Harumitsu Hamano Kōki Idoki Roger Mackay Katsunari Takahashi
1994	Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2)	268	−16	3 strokes	Tsukasa Watanabe
1993	Shigeki Maruyama	264	−20	2 strokes	Todd Hamilton
1992	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	275	−13	5 strokes	Hirofumi Miyase
Ube Kosan Open
1991	Chen Tze-chung	274	−10	2 strokes	Saburo Fujiki
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
1990	Tadao Nakamura	203[a]	−10	4 strokes	Tadami Ueno	[2]
1989	Akihito Yokoyama	203[a]	−13	Playoff[b]	Yoshimi Niizeki	[3]
Pepsi Ube Open
1988	Mamoru Kondo	169[c]	−11	1 stroke	Masahiro Kuramoto	[4]
1987	Chen Tze-ming (2)	278	−10	Playoff[d]	Hiroshi Makino	[5]
1986	Naomichi Ozaki	276	−12	1 stroke	Fujio Kobayashi
1985	Chen Tze-ming	268	−20	4 strokes	Katsunari Takahashi
1984	Yasuhiro Funatogawa	272	−16	2 strokes	Kikuo Arai Naomichi Ozaki	[6]
1983	Seiichi Kanai	274	−14	2 strokes	Kouichi Inoue	[7]
1982	Kikuo Arai	277	−11	2 strokes	Motomasa Aoki	[8]
Pepsi-Wilson Tournament
1981	Graham Marsh (2)	270	−18	1 stroke	Yutaka Hagawa	[9]
1980	Norio Suzuki	276	−12	1 stroke	Isao Aoki	[10]
1979	Mya Aye	274	−10	3 strokes	Hiroshi Ishii	[11]
1978	Masashi Ozaki (2)	275	−13	5 strokes	Isao Aoki Fujio Kobayashi Kosaku Shimada	[12]
1977	Masashi Ozaki	274	−14	4 strokes	Kuo Chie-Hsiung	[13]
1976	Peter Thomson (2)	211[a]	−5	Playoff[e]	Brian Jones Graham Marsh Shozo Miyamoto	[1]
1975	Hsieh Yung-yo	283	−5	1 stroke	Graham Marsh Toshiaki Sekimizu	[14]
Pepsi Tournament
1974	Graham Marsh	284	−4	Playoff[f]	Hsieh Yung-yo	[15]
1973	Isao Aoki	281	−7	Playoff	Kosaku Shimada
1972	Peter Thomson	279	−9	1 stroke	Chen Chien-chung Han Chang-sang Takashi Murakami	[16]

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
2. Yokoyama won with a bogey on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
3. Shortened to 45 holes due to rain.
4. Chen won with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
5. Thomson won the sudden-death playoff at the 14th extra hole; Miyamoto was eliminated at the first extra hole, and Jones at the fourth.
6. Marsh won with a birdie on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff.

References

1. "Thomson wins 14-hole play-off". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 24 May 1976. p. 13. Retrieved 28 July 2020 – via Google News Archive.
2. McCormack, Mark H. (1991). The World of Professional Golf 1991. Chapmans. pp. 285, 528. ISBN 1855925583.
3. McCormack, Mark H. (1990). World of Professional Golf 1990. Sackville. pp. 286, 529–530. ISBN 0948615389.
4. McCormack, Mark H. (1989). World of Professional Golf 1989. Collins Willow. pp. 279, 507. ISBN 000218284X.
5. McCormack, Mark H. (1988). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1988. Collins Willow. pp. 257–258, 471–472. ISBN 0002182831.
6. McCormack, Mark H. (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 230, 455–456. ISBN 0862541247.
7. "Veteran takes Papsi Ube". The Selma Times-Journal. Selma, Alabama. AP. 30 May 1983. p. 6. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Chin is winner". The Evening Sun. Hanover, Pennsylvania. AP. 25 May 1982. p. 9. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
9. McCormack, Mark H. (1982). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982. Collins. pp. 239–240, 462–463. ISBN 0862541018.
10. McCormack, Mark H. (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Collins. pp. 176, 385–386. ISBN 0862540054.
11. "Burma golfer blasts to Japan tourney victory". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. AP. 25 June 1979. p. 22. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
12. McCormack, Mark H. (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 388. ISBN 0385149409.
13. "Jumbo Ozaki wins Yokohama golf". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. UPI. 30 May 1977. p. 2 (Section3). Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
14. McCormack, Mark H. (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 291, 482. ISBN 000211996X.
15. McCormack, Mark H. (1975). The World of Professional Golf 1975. Collins. pp. 253–254, 431–432. ISBN 0002119552.
16. "Thomson victor in Pepsi golf". The Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. AP. 22 May 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site