The was a golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour from 2000 to 2012. The tournament record was 269 (19 under par), set by Christian Peña, Brendan Jones and Naomichi Ozaki in 2002; Peña won the title in a playoff. In its final year, in 2012, it was played in late July and the prize fund was ¥150,000,000 with ¥30,000,000 going to the winner.
Tournament hosts Year(s)Host courseLocation 2004–2012 Otaru Country Club Otaru, Hokkaido 2001–2003 Sapporo Bay Golf Club Ishikari, Hokkaido 2000 Sapporo Kokusai Country Club (Shimamatsu Course) Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido
Winners YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-up2012 Brendan Jones (2) 273 −15 2 strokes Lee Seong-ho Hideki Matsuyama Yoshinobu Tsukada2011 Yuta Ikeda 274 −14 1 stroke Tetsuji Hiratsuka2010 Tadahiro Takayama 271 −17 3 strokes Dinesh Chand2009 Ryo Ishikawa 271 −17 1 stroke Brendan Jones2008 Takuya Taniguchi 284 −4 1 stroke Hideto Tanihara2007 Jun Kikuchi 283 −5 Playoff Toru Suzuki2006 Hideto Tanihara 283 −5 1 stroke Hiroyuki Fujita Tetsuji Hiratsuka Prayad Marksaeng Katsumasa Miyamoto Masaya Tomida2005 Keiichiro Fukabori 273 −15 1 stroke Hidemasa Hoshino2004 Yang Yong-eun 275 −13 3 strokes David Smail Yeh Wei-tze2003 Brendan Jones 280 −8 Playoff Daisuke Maruyama Taichi Teshima2002 Christian Peña 269 −19 Playoff Brendan Jones Naomichi Ozaki2001 Hiroyuki Fujita 283 −5 Playoff Katsuyoshi Tomori2000 Masashi Ozaki 276 −12 Playoff Shoichi Yamamoto
References
External links Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site