Ube Kosan Open Explained

Ube Kosan Open
Location:Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
Establishment:1972
Course:Ube 72 Country Club
Par:72
Yardage:6859yd
Tour:Japan Golf Tour
Format:Stroke play
Month Played:November
Final Year:2001
Aggregate:264 Shigeki Maruyama (1993)
264 Hidemichi Tanaka (1996)
To-Par:−21 Dean Wilson (2001)
Final Champion: Dean Wilson
Map:Japan#Japan Yamaguchi Prefecture
Map Label:Ube 72 CC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:34.021°N 131.321°W

The Ube Kosan Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near Ube, Yamaguchi. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour.

In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat Graham Marsh, Brian Jones and Shozo Miyamoto.[1] This record still stands today.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)Host courseLocation
1976, 1978, 1980–2001 Ube 72 Country Club (various courses) Ube, Yamaguchi
1979 Hachinohe Country Club Hashikami, Aomori
1974 Katayamazu Golf Club (Hakusan) Kaga, Ishikawa
1972–1973, 1975, 1977 Yokohama Country Club (West) Yokohama, Kanagawa

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Ube Kosan Open
267 −21 1 stroke
276 −12 3 strokes
272 −16 3 strokes
271 −17 2 strokes
267 −17 4 strokes
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
264 −20 2 strokes
206 −10 3 strokes
Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 268 −16 3 strokes
264 −20 2 strokes
275 −13 5 strokes
Ube Kosan Open
274 −10 2 strokes
Pepsi Ube Kosan Open
203 −10 4 strokes [2]
203 −13 Playoff [3]
Pepsi Ube Open
169 −11 1 stroke [4]
Chen Tze-ming (2) 278 −10 Playoff [5]
276 −12 1 stroke
268 −20 4 strokes
272 −16 2 strokes [6]
274 −14 2 strokes [7]
277 −11 2 strokes [8]
Pepsi-Wilson Tournament
Graham Marsh (2) 270 −18 1 stroke [9]
276 −12 1 stroke [10]
274 −10 3 strokes [11]
Masashi Ozaki (2) 275 −13 5 strokes [12]
274 −14 4 strokes [13]
Peter Thomson (2) 211 −5 Playoff
283 −5 1 stroke [14]
Pepsi Tournament
284 −4 Playoff [15]
281 −7 Playoff
1972 279 −9 1 stroke [16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Thomson wins 14-hole play-off . Sydney Morning Herald . Sydney, New South Wales, Australia . 13 . 24 May 1976 . 28 July 2020 . Google News Archive.
  2. Book: McCormack, Mark H. . Mark McCormack

    . The World of Professional Golf 1991 . Mark McCormack . Chapmans . 1991 . 285, 528 . 1855925583.

  3. Book: McCormack, Mark H. . Mark McCormack

    . World of Professional Golf 1990 . Mark McCormack . Sackville . 1990 . 286, 529–530 . 0948615389.

  4. Book: McCormack, Mark H. . Mark McCormack

    . World of Professional Golf 1989 . Mark McCormack . Collins Willow . 1989 . 279, 507 . 000218284X.

  5. Book: McCormack, Mark H. . Ebel World of Professional Golf 1988 . Mark McCormack . Collins Willow . 1988 . 257–258, 471–472 . 0002182831.
  6. Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985 . 1985 . Springwood Books . 0862541247 . 230, 455–456.
  7. News: Veteran takes Papsi Ube . 27 January 2021 . The Selma Times-Journal . AP . 30 May 1983 . Selma, Alabama . 6 . Newspapers.com . subscription.
  8. News: Chin is winner . 27 January 2021 . The Evening Sun . AP . 25 May 1982 . Hanover, Pennsylvania . 9 . Newspapers.com . subscription.
  9. Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982 . 1982 . Collins . 0862541018 . 239–240, 462–463.
  10. Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981 . 1981 . Collins . 0862540054 . 176, 385–386.
  11. News: Burma golfer blasts to Japan tourney victory . 27 January 2021 . Detroit Free Press . AP . 25 June 1979 . Detroit, Michigan . 22 . Newspapers.com . subscription.
  12. Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979 . 1979 . Doubleday Publishing . 0385149409 . 245, 388.
  13. News: Jumbo Ozaki wins Yokohama golf . 27 January 2021 . Chicago Tribune . UPI . 30 May 1977 . Chicago, Illinois . 2 (Section3) . Newspapers.com . subscription.
  14. Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . The World of Professional Golf 1976 . 1976 . Collins . 000211996X . 291, 482.
  15. Book: McCormack . Mark H. . Mark McCormack . The World of Professional Golf 1975 . 1975 . Collins . 0002119552 . 253–254, 431–432.
  16. News: Thomson victor in Pepsi golf . 27 January 2021 . The Journal . AP . 22 May 1972 . Meriden, Connecticut . 10 . Newspapers.com . subscription.