Tsuruya Open Explained

Tsuruya Open
Location:Kawanishi, Hyōgo, Japan
Establishment:1994
Course:Yamanohara Golf Club
Par:71
Yardage:6804yd
Tour:Japan Golf Tour
Format:Stroke play
Month Played:April
Final Year:2014
Aggregate:265 Tomohiro Kondo (2011)
To-Par:−19 as above
Final Champion: Hiroyuki Fujita
Map:Japan#Japan Hyogo Prefecture
Map Label:Yamanohara GC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:34.898°N 135.392°W

The was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was played annually from 1994 to 2014 on the Yamanohara Course at Yamanohara Golf Club, formerly Sports Shinko Country Club, near Kawanishi, Hyōgo.

The tournament scoring records of 265 (−19) were set by Tomohiro Kondo in 2011. In its final year in 2014, the purse was ¥110,000,000 with ¥22,000,000 going to the winner.

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Hiroyuki Fujita (3) 271 −13 Playoff Park Sang-hyun
266 −18 1 stroke David Oh
Hiroyuki Fujita (2) 269 −15 4 strokes Lee Kyoung-hoon
265 −19 4 strokes Bae Sang-moon
Nobuhiro Masuda
199 −14 Playoff Toru Taniguchi
198 −15 2 strokes David Smail
272 −12 1 stroke Kim Kyung-tae
Brendan Jones (3) 268 −16 2 strokes Masahiro Kuramoto
Hirofumi Miyase
Toru Taniguchi
Brendan Jones (2) 273 −11 2 strokes Mamo Osanai
Naomichi Ozaki (2) 271 −13 3 strokes Ryoken Kawagishi
Paul Sheehan
275 −9 2 strokes Keiichiro Fukabori
Scott Laycock
Tatsuya Mitsuhashi
Taichi Teshima
Shinichi Yokota
270 −14 Playoff Takashi Kanemoto
Hisayuki Sasaki
273 −11 2 strokes Toru Taniguchi
274 −14 2 strokes Masayuki Kawamura
278 −10 Playoff Hidemichi Tanaka
273 −15 2 strokes Toru Suzuki
271 −17 1 stroke Peter McWhinney
279 −9 4 strokes Shigeki Maruyama
276 −12 1 stroke Peter Senior
279 −9 1 stroke Kōki Idoki
Katsunori Kuwabara
Roger Mackay
Kiyoshi Maita
Yoshi Mizumaki
279 −9 Playoff Tsutomu Higa

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