Yomiuri Open

Not to be confused with Yomiuri International.

The Yomiuri Open was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1970 as the Wizard Tournament, a 36-hole invitational tournament,^[1] it was played at Hashimoto Country Club in Wakayama until 1979 when it moved to Yomiuri Country Club in Hyōgo. With the move, it also became a full 72-hole tour event, having been extended to 54 holes in 1976, and adopted its new name.^[2] It remained at Yomiuri every year except for 1996, when it was played at Wakasu Golf Links in Tokyo. In 2007 it merged with the Mizuno Open to form the Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic.

Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open

Tournament information
Location	Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
Established	1970
Course(s)	Yomiuri Country Club
Par	72
Length	7,161 yards (6,548 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥100,000,000
Month played	June
Final year	2006
Tournament record score
Aggregate	266 Kazuhiro Fukunaga (1996) 266 Todd Hamilton (1996)
To par	−20 Dinesh Chand (2004)
Final champion
Nobuhiro Masuda
Location map
Yomiuri CC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Yomiuri CC Location in the Hyogo Prefecture Show map of Hyōgo Prefecture

Tournament hosts

Year(s)	Host course	Location
1979–1995, 1997–2006	Yomiuri Country Club	Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
1996	Wakasu Golf Links	Kōtō, Tokyo
1970–1978	Hashimoto Country Club	Hashimoto, Wakayama

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open
2006	Nobuhiro Masuda	274	−14	1 stroke	Yang Yong-eun
2005	Satoru Hirota	270	−18	1 stroke	Shinichi Akiba Tetsuji Hiratsuka
2004	Dinesh Chand	268	−20	4 strokes	Tetsuji Hiratsuka Hur Suk-ho
2003	Hideto Tanihara	200[a]	−16	3 strokes	Nobuhito Sato	[3]
Tamanoi Yomiuri Open
2002	Toru Taniguchi	270	−18	2 strokes	Satoru Hirota Daisuke Maruyama
2001	Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa	272	−16	Playoff	Toru Suzuki
2000	Yoshi Mizumaki	271	−17	3 strokes	Hisayuki Sasaki
Super Mario Yomiuri Open
1999	Kim Jong-duck	270	−18	3 strokes	Hajime Meshiai Hidemichi Tanaka
Yomiuri Open
1998	Brian Watts	134[b]	−10	1 stroke	Kaname Yokoo	[4]
1997	Shigeki Maruyama	267	−17	2 strokes	Naomichi Ozaki
Pocari Sweat Yomiuri Open
1996	Kazuhiro Fukunaga	266	−18	Playoff	Todd Hamilton
1995	Eduardo Herrera	272	−12	1 stroke	Hiroyuki Fujita
Yomiuri Open
1994	Tsukasa Watanabe	270	−14	2 strokes	Anthony Gilligan
Yomiuri Sapporo Beer Open
1993	Katsuji Hasegawa	203[a]	−13	Playoff	Hajime Meshiai
1992	David Ishii	278	−10	1 stroke	Brian Jones
1991	Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2)	272	−16	3 strokes	Rick Gibson
1990	Saburo Fujiki (2)	205[a]	−11	1 stroke	Taisei Inagaki
1989	Hajime Meshiai	205[a]	−11	2 strokes	Naomichi Ozaki
1988	Masahiro Kuramoto	277	−11	4 strokes	Ian Baker-Finch Tsukasa Watanabe Yoshikazu Yokoshima
1987	Satoshi Higashi	280	−8	1 stroke	Graham Marsh Hajime Meshiai
1986	Koichi Suzuki	273	−19	2 strokes	Brian Jones
1985	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	275	−17	3 strokes	Katsuji Hasegawa
Yomiuri Open
1984	Saburo Fujiki	281	−11	4 strokes	Shinsaku Maeda	[5]
1983	Graham Marsh (4)	280	−12	Playoff	Tōru Nakamura
1982	Terry Gale	276	−16	3 strokes	Masahiro Kuramoto Tsuneyuki Nakajima Namio Takasu Nobumitsu Yuhara	[6]
1981	Namio Takasu	285	−7	Playoff	Hsieh Yung-yo	[2]
1980	Isao Aoki	283	−9	1 stroke	Teruo Sugihara	[7]
1979	Teruo Sugihara (2)	287	−5	Playoff	Masashi Ozaki
Wizard Tournament
1978	Tōru Nakamura	214	−2	1 stroke	Kikuo Arai Yoshitaka Yamamoto	[1]
1977	Graham Marsh (3)	220	+4	2 strokes	Seiji Kusakabe	[8]
1976	Graham Marsh (2)	212	−4	1 stroke	Haruo Yasuda	[9]
1975	Graham Marsh	141	−3	1 stroke	Lu Liang-Huan	[10][11]
1974	Teruo Sugihara	146	+2	Playoff	Kosaku Shimada	[12]
1973	Yoshitaka Yamamoto
1972	Masashi Ozaki	144	E	Playoff	Peter Thomson	[13]
1971	Peter Thomson	143	−1	1 stroke	Lu Liang-Huan	[14][15]
1970	Hsieh Yung-yo	146	+2			[16]

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
2. Shortened to 36 holes due to weather.

References

1. McCormack, Mark (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 386–387. ISBN 0385149409.
2. McCormack, Mark (1982). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982. Springwood Books. pp. 237–238, 456. ISBN 0862541018.
3. "Tanihara on fire". Japan Times. Kyodo News. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
4. "Watts picks up first victory on Japanese golf tour". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. AP. 22 June 1998. p. E5. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
5. McCormack, Mark (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 232, 459–460. ISBN 0862541247.
6. "Gale storms in to post maiden Japan victory". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 June 1982. p. 36 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
7. McCormack, Mark (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Springwood Books. pp. 174, 381–382. ISBN 0862540054.
8. "Marsh victor for the 3rd time". Pacific Stars And Stripes. 10 May 1977 – via NewspaperArchive.
9. "Marsh in with a hot finish". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 10 May 1976. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via Google News Archive.
10. McCormack, Mark (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 290–291, 479–480. ISBN 000211996X.
11. "Marsh darts out of bunch to win title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 May 1975. p. 26 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
12. "Sugihara wins sudden death playoff". The Straits Times. Singapore. 4 May 1974. p. 29 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
13. "Ozaki wins playoff". The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 May 1972. p. 29 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
14. "Thomson wins". The Straits Times. Singapore. 4 May 1971. p. 23 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
15. "Australian golfer wins Wizard event". Uniontown Evening Standard. Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Associated Press. 4 May 1971 – via NewspaperArchive.
16. "Chinese pro Wizard champ". Star News. Pasadena, California. 5 May 1970 – via NewspaperArchive.

External links

• Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site