| Year: | 1979 |
| Tour: | PGA of Japan Tour |
| Regular Season: | – |
| No Of Events: | 37 |
| Most Wins: |  Isao Aoki (4) |
| Honor1: | Money list |
| Honoree1: | Isao Aoki |
| Prevseason: | 1978 |
| Nextseason: | 1980 |
The 1979 PGA of Japan Tour was the seventh 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 1979 season.[1] [2]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (¥) | Winner | Other tours | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr | Shizuoka | 25,000,000 | Akira Yabe (2) | ||||
| 8 Apr | Kumamoto | 10,000,000 | Takashi Kurihara (3) | ||||
| 15 Apr | Osaka | 12,000,000 |  Hsieh Min-Nan (3) | ||||
| 22 Apr | Ibaraki | US$100,000 | Hiroshi Ishii (6) | ||||
| 29 Apr | Aichi | 60,000,000 | Isao Aoki (21) | ||||
| 13 May | Saitama | 30,000,000 | Shoichi Sato (1) | ||||
| 20 May | Kanagawa | 30,000,000 | Isao Aoki (22) | ||||
| 27 May | Hyōgo | 30,000,000 | Teruo Sugihara (11) | ||||
| 3 Jun | Ibaraki | 30,000,000 | Tōru Nakamura (7) | ||||
| 10 Jun | Miyagi | 25,000,000 | Tōru Nakamura (8) | ||||
| 17 Jun | Hokkaidō | 25,000,000 | Yasuhiro Miyamoto (7) | ||||
| 24 Jun | Aomori | 25,000,000 | Mya Aye (2) | ||||
| 1 Jul | Ibaraki | 20,000,000 | Isao Aoki (23) | ||||
| 1 Jul | Ishikawa | 12,000,000 | Tōru Nakamura (9) | ||||
| 5 Aug | Tochigi | 30,000,000 | Norio Mikami (1) | ||||
| 12 Aug | Ishikawa | 20,000,000 | Mitsuhiro Kitta (1) | New to PGA of Japan Tour | |||
| 19 Aug | Miyagi | 12,000,000 | Kosaku Shimada (7) | ||||
| 26 Aug | Fukuoka | 32,000,000 | Masaji Kusakabe (4) | ||||
| 27 Aug | Hokkaidō | 4,100,000 | Shoichi Sato (2) | ||||
| 2 Sep | Hokkaidō | 30,000,000 |  Graham Marsh (11) | ||||
| 9 Sep | Chiba | 40,000,000 | Masaji Kusakabe (5) | ||||
| 16 Sep | Ibaraki | 25,000,000 | Hsieh Min-Nan (4) | ||||
| 23 Sep | Hyōgo | 15,000,000 | Yasuhiro Miyamoto (8) | ||||
| 23 Sep | Gunma | 20,000,000 | Masaru Amono (2) | ||||
| 23 Sep | Nagasaki | 5,000,000 | Yurio Akitomi (1) | ||||
| 23 Sep | Yamaguchi | 5,050,000 | Hideto Shigenobu (1) | ||||
| 23 Sep | Gifu | 12,000,000 | Kenichi Matsuoka (1) | ||||
| 30 Sep | Hiroshima | 20,000,000 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto (6) | ||||
| 7 Oct | Tochigi | 35,000,000 | Kuo Chie-Hsiung (2) | ||||
| 14 Oct | Aichi | 33,500,000 | Tsutomu Irie (1) | ||||
| 21 Oct | Shizuoka | 25,000,000 | Kuo Chie-Hsiung (3) | ||||
| 28 Oct | Chiba | 30,000,000 |  Lanny Wadkins (n/a) | ||||
| 4 Nov | Shiga | 50,000,000 | Kuo Chie-Hsiung (4) | ||||
| 11 Nov | Hyōgo | 30,000,000 | Tom Purtzer (n/a) | ||||
| 18 Nov | Shizuoka | US$300,000 | Norio Suzuki (9) | ||||
| 25 Nov | Miyazaki | 60,000,000 | Bobby Wadkins (n/a) | ||||
| 2 Dec | Tokyo | 16,000,000 | Isao Aoki (24) |
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.[3]
| Position | Player | Prize money (¥) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45,554,211 | ||
| 2 | 34,707,816 | ||
| 3 | 30,521,932 | ||
| 4 | 29,258,974 | ||
| 5 | 23,471,810 |