The is 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 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 ...
. It has been played annually since 1993. It is usually the first event played on the Japan Golf Tour season. The tournament record is 267 (−21). It was set by
Wayne Perske in 2006. The course measures 7,081 yards and the par is 71. Since 2009, the purse has been
¥130,000,000 with ¥26,000,000 going to the winner. Prize money was ¥90,000,000 from 1993 to 1997, ¥110,000,000 in 1998, ¥100,000,000 from 1999 to 2005 and ¥110,000,000 from 2006 to 2008.
Tournament hosts
Winners
Notes
References
External links
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Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site
Japan Golf Tour events
Golf tournaments in Japan
Sport in Mie Prefecture
Recurring sporting events established in 1993
1993 establishments in Japan
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