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.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Tamano, Okayama, Japan |
| Established | 2000 |
| Course(s) | Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,072 yards (6,467 m) |
| Tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | ¥100,000,000 |
| Month played | May |
| Final year | 2008 |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 270 Tatsuya Mitsuhashi (2004) 270 Hiroyuki Fujita (2005) 270 Hideto Tanihara (2008) |
| To par | −18 as above |
| Final champion | |
 Hideto Tanihara | |
| Location map | |
  Tojigaoka Marine Hills GC Location in Japan  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 edit
| 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 edit
| 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 edit
- ^ "High school golfer wins on Japan tour". The Sydney Morning Herald. May 21, 2007. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
External links edit
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