The Munsingwear Open KSB Cup was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was created in 2000 as a result of the merger of two previous tournaments, the Georgia KSB Open and the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup.
The Georgia KSB Open started in 1989, and the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup started in 1992. From 2004, the tournament was played at the Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club near Tamano, Okayama. The purse for 2008 was ¥100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.
At the 2007 Munsingwear Open KSB Cup, Ryo Ishikawa, an amateur, became the youngest ever winner on the Japan Golf Tour, aged 15 years and 8 months.
Tournament hosts Year(s)Host courseLocation 2000, 2004–2008 Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club Tamano, Okayama 2001, 2003 Rokko Kokusai Golf Club Kobe, Hyōgo 2002 Ayutaki Country Club Takamatsu, Kagawa
Winners YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-up2008 Hideto Tanihara 270 −18 3 strokes Shingo Katayama Katsunori Kuwabara Nobuhito Sato2007 Ryo Ishikawa (a) 276 −12 1 stroke Katsumasa Miyamoto2006 Toshinori Muto 274 −14 2 strokes Eiji Mizoguchi2005 Hiroyuki Fujita 270 −18 3 strokes Steven Conran Tadahiro Takayama2004 Tatsuya Mitsuhashi 270 −18 2 strokes Shingo Katayama Nobuhiro Masuda Jeev Milkha Singh2003 Hirofumi Miyase 275 −13 3 strokes Hur Suk-ho2002 Kenichi Kuboya 273 −11 Playoff Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa Todd Hamilton2001 Dinesh Chand 271 −17 2 strokes Toshimitsu Izawa2000 Shingo Katayama 272 −16 1 stroke Nobuhito Sato
References
External links Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site