Current season, competition or edition: 2024 LPGA of Japan Tour | |
Sport | Golf |
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Founded | 1968 |
CEO | Hiromi Kobayashi |
Country | Japan |
Most titles | Hisako Higuchi (69) |
Official website | LPGA.or.jp |
The LPGA of Japan Tour is a professional golf tour for women organised by the Japan Ladies Professional Golfers' Association. It is the second richest women's golf tour in the world. The U.S.-based LPGA Tour is the most important women's tour, but the prize money gap has closed markedly since the American tour's total prize fund peaked at just over $60 million in 2008. While the Japan Tour is the second-most lucrative women's tour, two other non-U.S. tours, the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour, rival the Japan Tour in level of competition.
The 2024 schedule includes 37 events played in Japan.
Year | Player | Earnings (¥) |
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2023 | Miyū Yamashita | 213,554,215 |
2022 | Miyū Yamashita | 235,020,967 |
2020–21 | Mone Inami | 255,192,049 |
2019 | Ai Suzuki | 160,189,665 |
2018 | Ahn Sun-ju | 180,784,885 |
2017 | Ai Suzuki | 140,122,631 |
2016 | Lee Bo-mee | 175,869,764 |
2015 | Lee Bo-mee | 230,497,057 |
2014 | Ahn Sun-ju | 153,075,741 |
2013 | Rikako Morita | 126,675,049 |
2012 | Jeon Mi-jeong | 131,827,582 |
2011 | Ahn Sun-ju | 127,926,893 |
2010 | Ahn Sun-ju | 145,073,799 |
2009 | Sakura Yokomine | 175,016,384 |
2008 | Miho Koga | 120,854,137 |
2007 | Momoko Ueda | 166,112,232 |
2006 | Shiho Oyama | 166,290,957 |
2005 | Yuri Fudoh | 122,460,908 |
2004 | Yuri Fudoh | 142,774,000 |
2003 | Yuri Fudoh | 149,325,679 |
2002 | Yuri Fudoh | 95,690,917 |
2001 | Yuri Fudoh | 89,248,793 |
2000 | Yuri Fudoh | 120,443,924 |
1999 | Fumiko Muraguchi | 66,891,682 |
1998 | Michiko Hattori | 81,570,823 |
1997 | Akiko Fukushima | 99,594,094 |
1996 | Akiko Fukushima | 70,596,190 |
1995 | Ikuyo Shiotani | 75,006,561 |
1994 | Mayumi Hirase | 69,817,958 |
1993 | Mayumi Hirase | 81,474,399 |
1992 | Ikuyo Shiotani | 57,799,649 |
1991 | Ai-Yu Tu | 70,403,481 |
1990 | Hiromi Takamura | 62,576,087 |
1989 | Ai-Yu Tu | 90,075,587 |
1988 | Nayoko Yoshikawa | 61,462,665 |
1987 | Tatsuko Ohsako | 56,763,481 |
1986 | Ai-Yu Tu | 62,435,225 |
1985 | Ai-Yu Tu | 65,634,788 |
1984 | Ai-Yu Tu | 52,897,845 |
1983 | Ai-Yu Tu | 45,764,313 |
1982 | Ai-Yu Tu | 39,029,644 |
1981 | Ayako Okamoto | 32,333,465 |
1980 | Tatsuko Ohsako | 23,594,744 |
1979 | Hisako Higuchi | 18,399,345 |
1978 | Hisako Higuchi | 11,664,650 |
1977 | Tatsuko Ohsako | 14,481,500 |
1976 | Hisako Higuchi | 14,667,000 |
1975 | Hisako Higuchi | 8,428,233 |
1974 | Hisako Higuchi | 15,545,700 |
1973 | Hisako Higuchi | 12,627,000 |
1972 | Hisako Higuchi | 4,150,000 |
1971 | Hisako Higuchi | 2,290,000 |
1970 | Hisako Higuchi | 1,215,000 |
1969 | Hisako Higuchi | 500,000 |
1968 | Hisako Higuchi | 350,000 |
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