Suntory Open

Suntory Open

Tournament information
Location	Inzai, Chiba, Japan
Established	1973
Course(s)	Sobu Country Club
Par	70
Length	7,143 yards (6,532 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥100,000,000
Month played	September
Final year	2007
Tournament record score
Aggregate	266 Yang Yong-eun (2006)
To par	−20 Yoshitaka Yamamoto (1975)
Final champion
Hideto Tanihara
Location map
Sobu CC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Sobu CC Location in the Chiba Prefecture Show map of Chiba Prefecture

The Suntory Open was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was founded in 1973 by Suntory, when it was held at the Ashitaka 600 club. ^[1] The following year it was held at Narashino Country Club. It remained at Narashino until 1998, when it moved to Sobu Country Club.

The prize fund for the final tournament in 2007 was ¥100,000,000 with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)	Host course	Location
1998–2007	Sobu Country Club	Inzai, Chiba
1974–1997	Narashino Country Club	Inzai, Chiba
1973	Ashitaka 600 Club	Numazu, Shizuoka

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
2007	Hideto Tanihara	202 [a]	−8	2 strokes	Toru Taniguchi	[2]
2006	Yang Yong-eun	266	−14	6 strokes	Hidemasa Hoshino Toru Taniguchi
2005	Yasuharu Imano	267	−13	2 strokes	Mamo Osanai
2004	Hideki Kase	267	−13	3 strokes	Tomohiro Kondo Katsuya Nakagawa Toru Taniguchi
2003	Jyoti Randhawa	276	−8	2 strokes	Paul Sheehan
2002	Shingo Katayama (2)	269	−15	4 strokes	Kōki Idoki Yasuharu Imano
2001	Shingo Katayama	268	−16	3 strokes	Darren Clarke Keiichiro Fukabori Nobuo Serizawa
2000	Kiyoshi Maita	273	−11	1 stroke	Yasuharu Imano
1999	Nick Price	276	−8	1 stroke	Shigeki Maruyama
1998	Mamo Osanai	274	−10	3 strokes	Masashi Ozaki
1997	Hiroyuki Fujita	274	−14	3 strokes	Masashi Ozaki
1996	Hajime Meshiai	272	−16	3 strokes	Hidemichi Tanaka
1995	Masahiro Kuramoto	273	−15	3 strokes	Takaaki Fukuzawa Satoshi Higashi Nobuo Serizawa
1994	David Ishii	277	−11	Playoff	Hisayuki Sasaki
1993	Eiichi Itai	282	−6	1 stroke	Chen Tze-chung
1992	Naomichi Ozaki (2)	279	−9	2 strokes	Wayne Grady Tateo Ozaki Yoshikazu Yokoshima Nobumitsu Yuhara
1991	Naomichi Ozaki	276	−12	2 strokes	Chen Tze-chung
1990	Tōru Nakamura	271	−17	1 stroke	Graham Marsh	[3]
1989	Larry Nelson	276	−12	Playoff	Saburo Fujiki
1988	Tateo Ozaki (2)	274	−14	3 strokes	Tadami Ueno
1987	Noboru Sugai	278	−10	3 strokes	Masahiro Kuramoto Larry Nelson
1986	Graham Marsh (2)	275	−13	Playoff	Isao Aoki
1985	Tateo Ozaki	275	−13	Playoff	Larry Nelson
1984	Takashi Kurihara	271	−17	2 strokes	Isao Aoki	[4]
1983	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	274	−14	1 stroke	Saburo Fujiki	[5]
1982	Pete Izumikawa	207 [a]	−9	2 strokes	Bill Rogers	[6]
1981	Bill Rogers (2)	270	−18	2 strokes	Norio Suzuki	[7]
1980	Bill Rogers	278	−10	2 strokes	Graham Marsh	[8]
1979	Masaji Kusakabe (2)	277	−11	1 stroke	Lu Liang-Huan	[9]
1978	Akio Kanemoto	281	−7	1 stroke	Isao Aoki	[10]
1977	Masaji Kusakabe	279	−9	3 strokes	Fujio Kobayashi	[11]
1976	Graham Marsh	273	−15	3 strokes	Isao Aoki	[12]
1975	Yoshitaka Yamamoto	268	−20	2 strokes	Masashi Ozaki	[13]
1974	Masashi Ozaki	272	−16	3 strokes	Kosaku Shimada	[14]
1973	Hideyo Sugimoto	270	−14	1 stroke	Masashi Ozaki	[15]

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

References

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8. McCormack, Mark H. (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Collins. pp. 179–180, 396–397. ISBN   0862540054.
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External links

• Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site
• Official site (in Japanese)