The 1981 PGA of Japan Tour was the ninth season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
Schedule The following table lists official events during the 1981 season.
Date Tournament Location Purse(¥) Winner Othertours Notes 22 Mar Shizuoka Open Shizuoka 32,000,000 Isao Aoki (30) 5 Apr Aso National Park Open Kumamoto 15,000,000 Saburo Fujiki (1) 19 Apr Kuzuha Kokusai Tournament Osaka 15,000,000 Kosaku Shimada (8) 26 Apr Dunlop International Open Ibaraki 30,000,000 Kosaku Shimada (9) AGC 3 May Chunichi Crowns Aichi 65,000,000 Graham Marsh (12) 10 May Fujisankei Classic Shizuoka 40,000,000 Toshiharu Kawada (1) 17 May Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Kanagawa 40,000,000 Isao Aoki (31) 24 May Yomiuri Open Hyōgo 30,000,000 Namio Takasu (2) 31 May Mitsubishi Galant Tournament Tochigi 35,000,000 Lu Hsi-chuen (1) 7 Jun Tohoku Classic Miyagi 30,000,000 Teruo Sugihara (15) 14 Jun Sapporo Tokyu Open Hokkaidō 30,000,000 Chen Tze-chung (1) 21 Jun Pepsi-Wilson Tournament Yamaguchi 25,000,000 Graham Marsh (13) 2 Jul Naganoken Open Nagano 17,000,000 Fujio Kobayashi (3) Masaji Kusakabe (7) Title sharedNew to PGA of Japan Tour 5 Jul JPGA East-West Tournament Mie 12,000,000 Shinsaku Maeda (5) 12 Jul Gunmaken Open Gunma 6,000,000 Satsuki Takahashi (1) New to PGA of Japan Tour 19 Jul Descente Cup Hokkoku Open Ishikawa 25,000,000 Saburo Fujiki (2) 26 Jul Niigata Open Niigata 15,000,000 Takahiro Takeyasu (1) New to PGA of Japan Tour 2 Aug Japan PGA Championship Hokkaidō 32,000,000 Isao Aoki (32) 9 Aug Mizuno Tournament Ishikawa 22,000,000 Kikuo Arai (1) 16 Aug Nihon Kokudo Keikaku Summers Chiba 33,000,000 Masahiro Kuramoto (2) 23 Aug Kanto Pro Championship Shizuoka 20,000,000 Seiichi Kanai (3) 23 Aug Kansai Pro Championship Hiroshima 13,000,000 Norio Suzuki (14) 30 Aug KBC Augusta Fukuoka 32,000,000 Hsieh Min-Nan (6) 5 Sep Chushikoku Open Shimane 5,000,000 Masahiro Kuramoto (3) 6 Sep Chubu Open Aichi 12,000,000 Shigeru Uchida (3) 6 Sep Kyusyu Open Fukuoka 8,000,000 Yurio Akitomi (3) 6 Sep Kanto Open Tochigi 20,000,000 Nobumitsu Yuhara (1) 6 Sep Kansai Open Shiga 15,000,000 Akio Kanemoto (3) 6 Sep Hokkaido Open Hokkaidō 4,000,000 Mitsuyoshi Goto (1) 13 Sep Suntory Open Chiba 40,000,000 Bill Rogers (n/a) 20 Sep ANA Sapporo Open Hokkaidō 30,000,000 Masahiro Kuramoto (4) 27 Sep Hiroshima Open Hiroshima 25,000,000 Seiichi Kanai (4) 4 Oct Gene Sarazen Jun Classic Tochigi 45,000,000 Nobumitsu Yuhara (2) 11 Oct Tokai Classic Aichi 35,000,000 Masahiro Kuramoto (5) 18 Oct Golf Digest Tournament Shizuoka 30,000,000 Toyotake Nakao (1) 25 Oct Bridgestone Tournament Chiba 50,000,000 Hale Irwin (n/a) 1 Nov Japan Open Golf Championship Gifu 47,000,000 Yutaka Hagawa (1) 8 Nov ABC Cup Japan vs USA Hyōgo 36,000,000 Bobby Clampett (n/a) 15 Nov Toshiba Taiheiyo Masters Shizuoka 70,000,000 Danny Edwards (n/a) 22 Nov Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Miyazaki 80,000,000 Seve Ballesteros (n/a) 29 Nov Casio World Open Kagoshima 60,000,000 Lee Trevino (n/a) New tournament 6 Dec Golf Nippon Series Tokyo 17,000,000 Yutaka Hagawa (2)
Money list The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.
Position Player Prize money (¥)1 Isao Aoki 57,262,9412 Masahiro Kuramoto 32,345,1303 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 29,600,9604 Tōru Nakamura 29,412,8525 Nobumitsu Yuhara 26,534,162
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