Year: | 1976 |
Tour: | PGA of Japan Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 31 |
Most Wins: | Shinsaku Maeda (3) Graham Marsh (3) Takashi Murakami (3) Masashi Ozaki (3) Norio Suzuki (3) |
Honor1: | Money list |
Honoree1: | Isao Aoki |
Prevseason: | 1975 |
Nextseason: | 1977 |
The 1976 PGA of Japan Tour was the fourth season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
The following table lists official events during the 1976 season.[1]
Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (¥) | Winner | Other tours | Notes | |
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25 Apr | Chiba | US$75,000 | Ben Arda (3) | ||||
2 May | Aichi | 60,000,000 | David Graham (n/a) | ||||
16 May | Saitama | 30,000,000 | Norio Suzuki (4) | ||||
23 May | Yamaguchi | 25,000,000 | Peter Thomson (n/a) | ||||
30 May | Kanagawa | 30,000,000 | Kazuo Yoshikawa (1) | ||||
6 Jun | Ishikawa | 20,000,000 | Yoshikazu Yokoshima (1) | ||||
13 Jun | Hokkaidō | 20,000,000 | Bill Dunk (2) | ||||
20 Jun | Miyagi | 23,000,000 | Haruo Yasuda (2) | ||||
4 Jul | Hokkaidō | 30,000,000 | Takashi Murakami (8) | ||||
11 Jul | Saitama | 15,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (13) | ||||
16 Jul | Hiroshima | 2,100,000 | Tadami Ueno (2) | ||||
16 Jul | Fukuoka | 2,200,000 | Norio Suzuki (5) | ||||
17 Jul | Fukui | 3,000,000 | Chen Chien-chin (1) | ||||
18 Jul | Shiga | 10,000,000 | Shinsaku Maeda (2) | ||||
25 Jul | Shizuoka | 25,000,000 | Norio Suzuki (6) | ||||
1 Aug | Kagawa | 10,000,000 | Shinsaku Maeda (3) | ||||
8 Aug | Akita | 15,000,000 | Takashi Murakami (9) | ||||
29 Aug | Fukuoka | 20,000,000 | Graham Marsh (7) | ||||
5 Sep | Hiroshima | 20,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (14) | ||||
12 Sep | Chiba | 35,000,000 | Graham Marsh (8) | ||||
19 Sep | Chiba | 20,000,000 | Masashi Ozaki (15) | ||||
26 Sep | Kumamoto | 20,000,000 | Seiichi Kanai (1) | ||||
10 Oct | Chiba | US$300,000 | Jerry Pate (n/a) | ||||
17 Oct | Aichi | 32,000,000 | Isao Aoki (12) | ||||
24 Oct | Shizuoka | 20,000,000 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima (1) | ||||
31 Oct | Chiba | 30,000,000 | Takashi Murakami (10) | ||||
7 Nov | Kanagawa | 30,000,000 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto (3) | ||||
15 Nov | Ibaraki | 65,000,000 | Kosaku Shimada (4) | ||||
21 Nov | Tokyo | 15,000,000 | Shinsaku Maeda (4) | ||||
28 Nov | Miyazaki | 60,000,000 | Graham Marsh (9) | ||||
5 Dec | Hyōgo | 23,000,000 | Tom Watson (n/a) |
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.[2]
Position | Player | Prize money (¥) | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40,985,801 | ||
2 | 36,469,936 | ||
3 | 24,608,872 | ||
4 | 21,824,670 | ||
5 | 21,816,308 |