The Japan PGA Match-Play Championship was a professional

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 ...

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 that was held in Japan from 1975 to 2003. It was an event 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 ...

and held at a number of different courses throughout Japan.

Tournament hosts

Winners

External links

Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site
Former Japan Golf Tour events Defunct golf tournaments in Japan Recurring sporting events established in 1975 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2003 {{golf-tournament-stub