Year: | 1973 |
Tour: | PGA of Japan Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 30 |
Most Wins: | Isao Aoki (5) Masashi Ozaki (5) |
Honor1: | Money list |
Honoree1: | Masashi Ozaki |
Nextseason: | 1974 |
The 1973 PGA of Japan Tour was the inaugural season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan.
The following table lists official events during the 1973 season.[1]
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (¥) | Winner(s) | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
29 Apr | Aichi | 18,000,000 | Isao Aoki (1) | |||
13 May | Chiba | 10,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (1) | |||
20 May | Kanagawa | 25,000,000 | Isao Aoki (2) | |||
27 May | Chiba | 15,000,000 | Ben Arda (1) | |||
3 Jun | Nara | 10,000,000 | Lu Liang-Huan (1) | |||
17 Jun | Hokkaidō | 10,000,000 | Isao Aoki (3) | New tournament | ||
8 Jul | Hokkaidō | 15,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (2) | |||
15 Jul | Tokyo | 25,000,000 | Fumio Tanaka (1) | New tournament | ||
19 Jul | Hyōgo | 6,000,000 | Teruo Sugihara (1) | |||
29 Jul | Hokkaidō | 10,000,000 | Takashi Murakami (1) and Hideyo Sugimoto (1) | Team event | ||
5 Aug | Miyagi | 10,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (3) | |||
9 Aug | Fukuoka | 2,000,000 | Kunio Koike (1) | |||
12 Aug | Saitama | 30,000,000 | Graham Marsh (1) | New tournament | ||
19 Aug | Shizuoka | 30,000,000 | Hideyo Sugimoto (2) | New tournament | ||
24 Aug | Yamaguchi | 1,000,000 | Mitsuhiko Masuda (1) | |||
26 Aug | Fukuoka | 15,000,000 | Isao Aoki (4) | New tournament | ||
30 Aug | Gifu | 2,000,000 | Hiroshi Ishii (1) | |||
2 Sep | Hiroshima | 8,000,000 | Tōru Nakamura (1) | |||
8 Sep | Saga | 8,000,000 | Kosaku Shimada (1) | |||
9 Sep | Saitama | 10,000,000 | Takashi Kurihara (1) | |||
16 Sep | Chiba | 10,000,000 | Namio Takasu (1) | |||
23 Sep | Shizuoka | 12,000,000 | Takaaki Kono (1) | |||
30 Sep | Osaka | 20,000,000 | Ben Arda (2) | |||
7 Oct | Shizuoka | 10,000,000 | Teruo Sugihara (2) | |||
14 Oct | Chiba | 90,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (4) | |||
21 Oct | Gifu | 10,000,000 | Isao Aoki (5) | |||
28 Oct | Aichi | 16,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (5) | |||
4 Nov | Tokyo | 15,000,000 | Hiroshi Ishii (2) | |||
25 Nov | Wakayama | 23,000,000 | Al Geiberger (n/a) | |||
9 Dec | Miyazaki | 10,000,000 | Yasuhiro Miyamoto (1) | New tournament |
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.[2] [3]
Position | Player | Prize money (¥) | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 43,814,000 | ||
2 | 31,595,926 | ||
3 | 13,965,796 | ||
4 | 13,806,190 | ||
5 | 13,518,570 |