NST Niigata Open

Sato Foods NST Niigata Open
Tournament information
Location	Shibata, Niigata, Japan
Established	1980
Course(s)	Forest Golf Club
Par	71
Length	7,000 yards (6,400 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥100,000,000
Month played	July
Final year	2004
Tournament record score
Aggregate	263 Kim Jong-duck (2004)
To par	−24 Go Higaki (2001)
Current champion
	Kim Jong-duck
Location map
	Forest GC Location in Japan Forest GC Location in the Niigata Prefecture

The NST Niigata Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan. It was a Japan Golf Tour event from at least 1981 to 2004. It was sponsored by Niigata Sogo Television and played on different courses in Niigata. The tournament record of 264(-24) was set in 2001 at Nakajo Golf Club.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Sato Foods NST Niigata Open
2004	Kim Jong-duck	263	−21	5 strokes	Kazuhiro Kinjo
2003	Katsumasa Miyamoto	271	−17	1 stroke	Gregory Meyer
Sato Foods NST Niigata Open Golf Championship
2002	Yasuharu Imano	270	−18	4 strokes	Katsumasa Miyamoto
NST Niigata Open Golf Championship
2001	Go Higaki	264	−24	6 strokes	Scott Laycock
2000	Hidezumi Shirakata	269	−19	4 strokes	Kiyoshi Murota
1999	Toshimitsu Izawa	269	−19	6 strokes	Kazuhiko Hosokawa
1998	Masayuki Kawamura	268	−20	8 strokes	Shingo Katayama Kiyoshi Murota
1997	Kazuhiko Hosokawa	277	−11	1 stroke	Hisayuki Sasaki
1996	Masatoshi Horikawa	268	−20	1 stroke	Masayuki Kawamura
1995	Tomohiro Maruyama	274	−14	3 strokes	Hidemichi Tanaka
NST Niigata Open
1994	Pete Izumikawa	276	−12	2 strokes	Kiyoshi Murota
1993	Kōki Idoki	275	−13	3 strokes	Samson Gimson Hiroya Kamide Yoshinori Kaneko Hajime Meshiai
1992	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	275	−13	2 strokes	Shigenori Mori
1991	Akihito Yokoyama	278	−10	2 strokes	Hideki Kase Koichi Suzuki
1990	Seiichi Kanai	278	−10	1 stroke	Yukio Noguchi
1989	Katsuyoshi Tomori	288	E	1 stroke	Tomohiro Maruyama
1988	Naomichi Ozaki	277	−11	3 strokes	David Ishii
1987	Tadao Nakamura	276	−8	1 stroke	Hsieh Chin-sheng David Ishii Brian Jones Kazuo Yoshikawa
1986	David Ishii	276	−12	1 stroke	Tateo Ozaki
1985	Hsieh Min-Nan	272	−12	Playoff	Yoshihisa Iwashita
1984	Saburo Fujiki	271	−13	1 stroke	Haruo Yasuda
Niigata Open
1983	Hideto Shigenobu	136	−8	Playoff	Isao Aoki Katsunari Takahashi
1982	Yoshitaka Yamamoto	138	−6
1981	Takahiro Takeyasu	139	−5
1980	Hideo Ishii