Descente Classic Explained

Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
Location:Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan
Establishment:1992
Course:Taiheiyo Club
(Ichihara Course)
Par:72
Yardage:6796yd
Tour:Japan Golf Tour
Format:Stroke play
Month Played:April
Final Year:1999
Aggregate:270 Peter Teravainen (1997)
To-Par:−17 Dinesh Chand (1998)
Final Champion: Masayuki Kawamura
Map:Japan#Japan Shizuoka Prefecture
Map Label:Taiheiyo Club
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:35.285°N 138.876°W

The Descente Classic was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1992 by sponsors Descente, it was renamed the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup in 1995 and played until 1999, after which it was merged with the KSB Open to create the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)Host courseLocation
1998–1999 Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course) Ichihara, Chiba
1996–1997 Edosaki Country Club Inashiki, Ibaraki
1993–1995 Century Miki Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo
1992 Century Yokawa Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
205 −11 Playoff Kazuhiko Hosokawa
Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
271 −17 2 strokes Carlos Franco
Hidemichi Tanaka
270 −14 2 strokes Todd Hamilton
273 −11 2 strokes Hideyuki Sato
282 −6 1 stroke Katsuyoshi Tomori
Descente Classic
280 −8 3 strokes Hisao Inoue
Hideki Kase
Frankie Miñoza
Tsukasa Watanabe
281 −7 2 strokes Shigenori Mori
Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
279 −9 2 strokes Masanobu Kimura

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