Munsingwear Open KSB Cup

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.

Munsingwear Open KSB Cup
Tournament information
LocationTamano, Okayama, Japan
Established2000
Course(s)Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club
Par72
Length7,072 yards (6,467 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥100,000,000
Month playedMay
Final year2008
Tournament record score
Aggregate270 Tatsuya Mitsuhashi (2004)
270 Hiroyuki Fujita (2005)
270 Hideto Tanihara (2008)
To par−18 as above
Final champion
Japan Hideto Tanihara
Location map
Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC is located in Japan
Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC
Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC
Location in Japan
Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC is located in Okayama Prefecture
Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC
Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC
Location in the Okayama Prefecture

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

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Year(s) Host course Location
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

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
2008   Hideto Tanihara 270 −18 3 strokes   Shingo Katayama
  Katsunori Kuwabara
  Nobuhito Sato
2007   Ryo Ishikawa (a) 276 −12 1 stroke   Katsumasa Miyamoto
2006   Toshinori Muto 274 −14 2 strokes   Eiji Mizoguchi
2005   Hiroyuki Fujita 270 −18 3 strokes   Steven Conran
  Tadahiro Takayama
2004   Tatsuya Mitsuhashi 270 −18 2 strokes   Shingo Katayama
  Nobuhiro Masuda
  Jeev Milkha Singh
2003   Hirofumi Miyase 275 −13 3 strokes   Hur Suk-ho
2002   Kenichi Kuboya 273 −11 Playoff   Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa
  Todd Hamilton
2001   Dinesh Chand 271 −17 2 strokes   Toshimitsu Izawa
2000   Shingo Katayama 272 −16 1 stroke   Nobuhito Sato

References

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  1. ^ "High school golfer wins on Japan tour". The Sydney Morning Herald. May 21, 2007. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
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