The ISPS Handa Global Cup was professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament on the
Japan Golf Tour
The Japan Golf Tour ( ja, 日本ゴルフツアー機構) is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third-highest annual prize fund out of the regular (that is not for seniors) men's professional tours after th ...
. Its main sponsor was
International Sports Promotion Society
(ISPS, also known as ISPS Handa) is a Japanese non-profit organization known for its sponsorship of golf tournaments worldwide, including the PGA Seniors Championship and LPGA Women's Australian Open. ISPS Handa is a member of the Tokyo Sports ...
(ISPS). Founded in 2015 as a 72-hole
stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In stroke play, the winner is the player who has taken the fewest strokes over the ...
tournament, in 2017 it became a
match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 h ...
event and was renamed the ISPS Handa Match Play.
Winners
External links
Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site
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International Sports Promotion Society
Former Japan Golf Tour events
Defunct golf tournaments in Japan
Sport in Yamanashi Prefecture
Recurring sporting events established in 2015
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2018
2015 establishments in Japan
2018 disestablishments in Japan