Munsingwear Open KSB Cup explained

Munsingwear Open KSB Cup
Location:Tamano, Okayama, Japan
Establishment:2000
Course:Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club
Par:72
Yardage:7072yd
Tour:Japan Golf Tour
Format:Stroke play
Month Played:May
Final Year:2008
Aggregate:270 Tatsuya Mitsuhashi (2004)
270 Hiroyuki Fujita (2005)
270 Hideto Tanihara (2008)
To-Par:−18 as above
Final Champion: Hideto Tanihara
Map:Japan#Japan Okayama Prefecture
Map Label:Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:34.556°N 134.009°W

The Munsingwear Open KSB Cup was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was created in 2000 as a result of the merger of two previous tournaments, the Georgia KSB Open and the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup.

The Georgia KSB Open started in 1989, and the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup started in 1992. From 2004, the tournament was played at the Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club near Tamano, Okayama. The purse for 2008 was ¥100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.

At the 2007 Munsingwear Open KSB Cup, Ryo Ishikawa, an amateur, became the youngest ever winner on the Japan Golf Tour, aged 15 years and 8 months.[1]

Tournament hosts

Year(s)Host courseLocation
2000, 2004–2008 Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club Tamano, Okayama
2001, 2003 Rokko Kokusai Golf Club Kobe, Hyōgo
2002 Ayutaki Country Club Takamatsu, Kagawa

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
270 −18 3 strokes Shingo Katayama
Katsunori Kuwabara
Nobuhito Sato
Ryo Ishikawa (a) 276 −12 1 stroke Katsumasa Miyamoto
274 −14 2 strokes Eiji Mizoguchi
270 −18 3 strokes Steven Conran
Tadahiro Takayama
270 −18 2 strokes Shingo Katayama
Nobuhiro Masuda
Jeev Milkha Singh
275 −13 3 strokes Hur Suk-ho
273 −11 Playoff Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa
Todd Hamilton
271 −17 2 strokes Toshimitsu Izawa
272 −16 1 stroke Nobuhito Sato

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Notes and References

  1. News: High school golfer wins on Japan tour . . May 21, 2007 . 2009-03-31.