Tournament Name: | Mynavi ABC Championship |
Location: | Katō, Hyōgo, Japan |
Establishment: | 1971 |
Course: | ABC Golf Club |
Par: | 72 |
Yardage: | 7217yd |
Tour: | Japan Golf Tour |
Format: | Stroke play |
Month Played: | November |
Final Year: | 2023 |
Aggregate: | 263 Ryuichi Oda (2014) |
To-Par: | −24 Keita Nakajima (2023) |
Final Champion: | Keita Nakajima |
Map: | Japan#Japan Hyogo Prefecture |
Map Label: | ABC GC |
Map Relief: | yes |
Map Size: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 34.91°N 135.101°W |
The was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was played at the ABC Golf Club in Katō, Hyōgo, usually in October or November. It was founded in 1971 as a Japan vs. United States team match (there was also individual prize money and the event counted as an official win on tour). In 1988, it became a full-field individual event. The event is sponsored by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation and Mynavi Corporation.
The tournament was founded in 1971 as the Miki Gold Cup, a nine-man team match between golfers from Japan and the United States. Results were based on the aggregate of the best seven scores from each team after 54 holes of stroke play competition; there was also a prize for the best individual score. The event was renamed as the ABC Cup in 1972. The following year, the best eight scores were used to determine the winner, and in 1975 the event was extended to 72 holes.
Between 1982 and 1984 the event was titled as the Goldwin Cup[1] (1982–83) and the Uchida Yoko Cup (1984), during which time it was contested as stroke play matches with two points were awarded for a match win and one point for a tie. The first two rounds were played as better ball pairs and the final two rounds as singles, from which the scores were used to determine the individual winner. In 1985 the event reverted to its earlier format and name.
In 1988, the tournament became a regular 72 hole stroke play event on the Japan Golf Tour, since when it has always been held at ABC Golf Club in Katō, Hyōgo. Sponsored by Philip Morris International, it was titled using the Lark brand as the ABC Lark Cup or Lark Cup for five years, until 1994 when it became the Philip Morris Championship. After Philip Morris sponsorship came to an end, in 2003 the event became titled the ABC Championship, with Mynavi being added as title sponsor in 2008.
In 2023, following the 2024 schedule announcement by the Japan Golf Tour, it was confirmed that the 2023 tournament would be the last and would not return from 2024 onwards.[2]
Years | Venue | Location | |
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1988–present | ABC Golf Club | Katō, Hyōgo | |
1983 | Taiheiyo Club (Rokko Course) | Hyōgo | |
1982, 1984 | Sobhu Country Club (Sobhu Course) | Inzai, Chiba | |
1979–1981, 1985–1987 | Sports Shinko Country Club | Kawanishi, Hyōgo | |
1976–1978 | Harima Country Club | Ono, Hyōgo | |
1975 | Ibaraki Kokusai Golf Club | Ibaraki, Osaka | |
1973–1974 | Hashimoto Country Club | Hashimoto, Wakayama | |
1972 | Ikeda Country Club | Ikeda, Osaka | |
1971 | Perfect Liberty (PL) Country Club | Tondabayashi, Osaka |
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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Mynavi ABC Championship | ||||||
264 | −24 | 3 strokes | Shaun Norris | |||
271 | −17 | 2 strokes | Hiroshi Iwata Daijiro Izumida Riki Kawamoto | |||
272 | −16 | 2 strokes | Mikumu Horikawa Tomohiro Ishizaka | |||
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||
269 | −19 | 1 stroke | Shugo Imahira | |||
273 | −15 | Playoff | Masahiro Kawamura | |||
203 | −13 | 1 stroke | Im Sung-jae Yūsaku Miyazato Ryutaro Nagano | |||
Shingo Katayama (4) | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Shintaro Kobayashi | ||
Kim Kyung-tae (2) | 272 | −12 | 2 strokes | Daisuke Kataoka Won Joon Lee Katsumasa Miyamoto | ||
263 | −21 | 5 strokes | Koumei Oda Hideto Tanihara | |||
269 | −15 | Playoff | Hur Suk-ho | |||
271 | −17 | 1 stroke | Katsumasa Miyamoto | |||
273 | −15 | Playoff | Bae Sang-moon | |||
275 | −13 | 1 stroke | Ryo Ishikawa | |||
274 | −14 | 5 strokes | Takashi Kanemoto | |||
279 | −9 | 1 stroke | Keiichiro Fukabori | |||
ABC Championship | ||||||
274 | −14 | Playoff | Lee Dong-hwan | |||
Shingo Katayama (3) | 271 | −17 | Playoff | Yang Yong-eun | ||
Shingo Katayama (2) | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Dinesh Chand | ||
273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Ryoken Kawagishi Toru Suzuki | |||
265 | −23 | 9 strokes | Katsumasa Miyamoto | |||
Philip Morris K.K. Championship | ||||||
269 | −19 | 2 strokes | Toshimitsu Izawa | |||
272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Hidemichi Tanaka Toru Taniguchi | |||
Philip Morris Championship | ||||||
276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Hidemichi Tanaka Shingo Katayama | |||
Ryoken Kawagishi (2) | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | Katsunori Kuwabara | ||
Masashi Ozaki (2) | 275 | −13 | 1 stroke | Carlos Franco Mitsuo Harada | ||
Brian Watts (2) | 280 | −8 | 2 strokes | Kaname Yokoo | ||
Naomichi Ozaki (2) | 278 | −10 | 4 strokes | Russ Cochran David Ishii Masashi Ozaki | ||
278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Naomichi Ozaki Nobumitsu Yuhara | |||
276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Masashi Ozaki Naomichi Ozaki Duffy Waldorf | |||
Lark Cup | ||||||
283 | −5 | 1 stroke | Masahiro Kuramoto Naomichi Ozaki | |||
279 | −9 | 1 stroke | Masashi Ozaki | |||
ABC Lark Cup | ||||||
280 | −8 | 2 strokes | Roger Mackay | |||
277 | −11 | 2 strokes | Masashi Ozaki | |||
280 | −8 | 4 strokes | Toshiaki Sudo | |||
277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Masashi Ozaki |
Year | Winning team | Score | Margin of victory | Individual winner(s) | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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ABC Japan-U.S. Match | |||||||||
2,227 | 3 strokes | 269 | −19 | 5 strokes | |||||
2,229 | 7 strokes | 271 | −17 | 4 strokes | |||||
2,557 | 2 strokes | 276 | −12 | Title shared | [3] | ||||
Uchida Yoko Cup Japan vs USA Match | |||||||||
align=center colspan=2 | 30–18 | Tom Watson (2) | 135 | −7 | 1 stroke | [4] | |||
Goldwin Cup Japan vs USA | |||||||||
align=center colspan=2 | 29–19 | 141 | −3 | 1 stroke | [5] | ||||
align=center colspan=2 | 33–15 | 134 | −10 | Title shared | [6] | ||||
ABC Cup Japan vs USA | |||||||||
2,246 | 35 strokes | 271 | −17 | 7 strokes | [7] | ||||
ABC Japan vs USA Golf Matches | |||||||||
2,280 | Tie | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | [8] | ||||
2,306 | 5 strokes | 276 | −12 | 10 strokes | [9] | ||||
2,273 | 53 strokes | Isao Aoki (2) | 273 | −15 | 5 strokes | [10] | |||
2,079 | 2 strokes | 280 | −8 | 2 strokes | [11] | ||||
2,273 | 15 strokes | 277 | −11 | 3 strokes | [12] | ||||
2,266 | 42 strokes | 273 | −15 | 7 strokes | [13] | ||||
1,752 | 9 strokes | 209 | −7 | 1 stroke | [14] | ||||
1,785 | 17 strokes | 218 | +2 | 2 strokes | [15] | ||||
1972 | 1,488 | 18 strokes | 209 | −4 | 1 stroke | [16] | |||
Miki Gold Cup | |||||||||
1971 | 1,484 | 9 strokes | 208 | −8 | Title shared | [17] |