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Descente Classic
Tournament information
LocationJapan
Established1992
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Final year1999
Tournament record score
Aggregate270 Peter Teravainen (1997)
To par−17 Dinesh Chand (1998)
Final champion
Japan Masayuki Kawamura

The Descente Classic was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1992 by sponsors Descente, it was renamed the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup in 1995 and played until 1999, after which it was merged with the KSB Open to create the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.

Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location
1998–1999 Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course) Ichihara, Chiba
1996–1997 Edosaki Country Club Inashiki, Ibaraki
1993–1995 Century Miki Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo
1992 Century Yokawa Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up
Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
1999 Japan Masayuki Kawamura 205[a] −11 Playoff Japan Kazuhiko Hosokawa
Japan Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1998 Fiji Dinesh Chand 271 −17 2 strokes Paraguay Carlos Franco
Japan Hidemichi Tanaka
1997 United States Peter Teravainen 270 −14 2 strokes United States Todd Hamilton
1996 Japan Masanobu Kimura 273 −11 2 strokes Japan Hideyuki Sato
1995 Japan Satoshi Higashi 282 −6 1 stroke Japan Katsuyoshi Tomori
Descente Classic
1994 United States Brian Watts 280 −8 3 strokes Japan Hisao Inoue
Japan Hideki Kase
Philippines Frankie Miñoza
Japan Tsukasa Watanabe
1993 Japan Tetsu Nishikawa 281 −7 2 strokes Japan Shigenori Mori
Japan Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1992 Japan Yoshinori Kaneko 279 −9 2 strokes Japan Masanobu Kimura
  1. ^ Tournament contested over 54 holes.

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