ANA Open explained

ANA Open
Location:	Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Japan
Establishment:	1972
Course:	Sapporo Golf Club (Wattsu Course)
Par:	72
Tour:	Japan Golf Tour
Format:	Stroke play
Month Played:	September
Aggregate:	268 Masashi Ozaki (1994)
To-Par:	−20 as above
Current Champion:	Hideto Tanihara
Map:	Japan#Japan Hokkaido
Map Label:	Sapporo Golf Club
Map Relief:	yes
Map Size:	200
Coordinates:	42.946°N 141.497°W

The is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded as the Sapporo Open, it has been sponsored by All Nippon Airways since 1973, initially as the ANA Sapporo Open.^[1] It is usually held in September each year at the Sapporo Golf Club in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido.

Sapporo's Wattsu and Yuni courses have both played host to the tournament. The tournament scoring record is 268 (20 under par), set by Masashi Ozaki in 1994. Ozaki also holds the all-time record of wins at the tournament with eight. The 2021 purse was ¥110,000,000, of which the winner's share was ¥20,000,000.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
ANA Open
		270	−18	1 stroke
		269	−19	Playoff
		270	−18	3 strokes
	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
		272	−16	Playoff	Seungsu Han Terumichi Kakazu Shaun Norris Ryuko Tokimatsu
	Cancelled due to the earthquake in Hokkaido^[2]
	Yuta Ikeda (2)	275	−13	Playoff	Shugo Imahira Ryuko Tokimatsu
		270	−18	1 stroke	Yuta Ikeda
		272	−16	2 strokes	Yūsaku Miyazato
		270	−18	Playoff	Hideto Tanihara
		273	−15	4 strokes	Shingo Katayama Lee Kyoung-hoon
		272	−16	1 stroke	Kurt Barnes Yuta Ikeda Kim Hyung-sung Liang Wenchong
		275	−13	1 stroke	Shingo Katayama Tomohiro Kondo Koumei Oda
		274	−14	1 stroke	Jay Choi Kim Do-hoon
		272	−16	4 strokes	Kim Kyung-tae Tsuneyuki Nakajima Kazuhiro Yamashita
		273	−15	4 strokes	Toshinori Muto Tsuneyuki Nakajima
		277	−7	Playoff	Yasuharu Imano Chawalit Plaphol
		274	−10	1 stroke	Kiyoshi Maita Kaname Yokoo
	Keiichiro Fukabori (2)	274	−14	Playoff	Yasuharu Imano
		271	−17	1 stroke	Yang Yong-eun
		277	−11	1 stroke	Masashi Ozaki Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
	Masashi Ozaki (8)	271	−17	1 stroke	Hiroyuki Fujita
		273	−15	2 strokes	Kazuhiro Kinjo Tsuneyuki Nakajima
		282	−6	1 stroke	Christian Peña
		277	−11	1 stroke	Naomichi Ozaki Katsuyoshi Tomori
		279	−9	2 strokes	Lee Janzen Katsumasa Miyamoto
		273	−15	3 strokes	Zaw Moe Tateo Ozaki
		282	−6	1 stroke	Masahiro Kuramoto
	Masashi Ozaki (7)	279	−9	3 strokes	Ernie Els
	Masashi Ozaki (6)	268	−20	9 strokes	Kiyoshi Murota
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima (4)	274	−14	4 strokes	Naomichi Ozaki Peter Senior Katsunari Takahashi
	Masashi Ozaki (5)	280	−8	4 strokes	Ryoken Kawagishi
		282	−6	2 strokes	Ryoken Kawagishi
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima (3)	277	−11	3 strokes	Masashi Ozaki
	Masashi Ozaki (4)	280	−8	6 strokes	Ian Woosnam
		278	−10	Playoff	Brian Jones
		282	−6	1 stroke	Tsukasa Watanabe
	Masahiro Kuramoto (2)	281	−7	2 strokes	Isao Aoki
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2)	277	−11	2 strokes	Masahiro Kuramoto
ANA Sapporo Open
		280	−8	Playoff	Satsuki Takahashi	^[3]
		282	−6	5 strokes	Isao Aoki
		278	−10	1 stroke	Isao Aoki
		282	−6	3 strokes	Kikuo Arai	^[4]
	Teruo Sugihara (3)	283	−5	1 stroke	Kikuo Arai	^[5]
		284	−4	2 strokes	Kikuo Arai
	Teruo Sugihara (2)	284	−4	1 stroke	Fujio Kobayashi	^[6]
		287	−1	1 stroke	Yasuhiro Miyamoto
		285	−3	3 strokes	Masashi Ozaki	^[7]
		277	−11	2 strokes	Takashi Murakami
	Masashi Ozaki (3)	282	−6	Playoff	Isao Aoki
	Masashi Ozaki (2)	283	−5	2 strokes	Hsieh Min-Nan	^[8]
Sapporo Open
1972		282	−6	4 strokes	Kosaku Shimada Hideyo Sugimoto	^[9]

External links

Notes and References

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Web site: 「平成30年北海道胆振東部地震」の影響によりANAオープンが開催中止 . ANA Open is halted due to the effects of the 30-year-east earthquake in Hokkaido . Japan Golf Tour Organization . 6 September 2018 . Japanese.
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News: Sugihara takes 34th golf title . 29 January 2021 . Fort Worth Star-Telegram . AP . 3 July 1978 . Fort Worth, Texas, US . 5d . Newspapers.com . subscription.
News: Murakami wins Sapporo golf . 29 January 2021 . The Gazette . AP . 5 July 1976 . Montreal, Quebec, Canada . 22 . Google News Archive.
Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . The World of Professional Golf 1974 . 1974 . Collins . 0002119544 . 323, 543.
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