The Nikkei Cup, also known as the Torakichi Nakamura Memorial tournament, was a 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 that was held in Japan from 1985 to 1998. 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 played at a variety of courses in

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. It was dedicated in recognition of the achievements of Torakichi Nakamura.

Winners

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Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site
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