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.
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. This record still stands.
Tournament hosts Year(s)Host courseLocation 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 YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-upUbe 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 −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 −10 4 strokes Tadami Ueno 1989 Akihito Yokoyama 203 −13 Playoff Yoshimi Niizeki Pepsi Ube Open 1988 Mamoru Kondo 169 −11 1 stroke Masahiro Kuramoto 1987 Chen Tze-ming (2) 278 −10 Playoff Hiroshi Makino 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 1983 Seiichi Kanai 274 −14 2 strokes Kouichi Inoue 1982 Kikuo Arai 277 −11 2 strokes Motomasa Aoki Pepsi-Wilson Tournament 1981 Graham Marsh (2) 270 −18 1 stroke Yutaka Hagawa 1980 Norio Suzuki 276 −12 1 stroke Isao Aoki 1979 Mya Aye 274 −10 3 strokes Hiroshi Ishii 1978 Masashi Ozaki (2) 275 −13 5 strokes Isao Aoki Fujio Kobayashi Kosaku Shimada 1977 Masashi Ozaki 274 −14 4 strokes Kuo Chie-Hsiung 1976 Peter Thomson (2) 211 −5 Playoff Brian Jones Graham Marsh Shozo Miyamoto 1975 Hsieh Yung-yo 283 −5 1 stroke Graham Marsh Toshiaki Sekimizu Pepsi Tournament 1974 Graham Marsh 284 −4 Playoff Hsieh Yung-yo 1973 Isao Aoki 281 −7 Playoff Kosaku Shimada 1972 Peter Thomson 279 −9 1 stroke Chen Chien-chung Han Chang-sang Takashi Murakami
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External links Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site