Nikkei Cup

Nikkei Cup
Tournament information
Location	Japan
Established	1985
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Final year	1998
Tournament record score
Aggregate	268 Masashi Ozaki (1998); 268 Toru Suzuki (1994)
To par	−20 as above
Final champion
	Mitsutaka Kusakabe

The Nikkei Cup was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1985 to 1998. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour and played at a variety of courses in Japan. It was dedicated in recognition of the achievements of Torakichi Nakamura from 1995.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue
Nikkei Cup Torakichi Nakamura Memorial
1998	Mitsutaka Kusakabe	280	−8	1 stroke	Masashi Ozaki	Fuji CC (Dejima Course)
1997	Yeh Chang-ting	272	−16	Playoff	Tsukasa Watanabe	Fuji CC (Dejima Course)
1996	Hideki Kase	271	−17	2 strokes	Lin Keng-chi	Fuji CC (Dejima Course)
1995	Tetsu Nishikawa	269	−19	2 strokes	Tomohiro Maruyama	Fuji CC (Dejima Course)
Nikkei Cup
1994	Toru Suzuki	268	−20	5 strokes	Katsunari Takahashi	Mitsui Tomakomai CC
1993	Samson Gimson	276	−12	2 strokes	Hisayuki Sasaki	Mitsui Tomakomai CC
1992	Kiyoshi Murota	280	−8	Playoff	Masahiro Kuramoto	Mitsui Tomakomai CC
1991	Naomichi Ozaki	203^[a]	−7	Playoff^[b]	Eiichi Itai	Yasukogen CC
1990	Satoshi Higashi	282	−6	1 stroke	Nobuo Serizawa	Mitsui Tomakomai CC
1989	Yoshimi Niizeki	271	−9	Playoff	Saburo Fujiki	Izu Nirayama CC
1988	Masashi Ozaki	283	−5	4 strokes	Naomichi Ozaki	Sanyo GC (Yoshii Course)
1987	Nobuo Serizawa	277	−7	1 stroke	Masashi Ozaki Naomichi Ozaki Masahiro Shiota	Gifuseki CC
1986	Masashi Ozaki	268	−20	4 strokes	Ikuo Shirahama	Gamou GC
1985	Naomichi Ozaki	270	−14	4 strokes	Yoshihisa Iwashita	Kawagoe CC

^ Tournament reduced to 54 holes after the third round was cancelled due to heavy rain.
^ Ozaki won with a bogey on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

References

External links

Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site

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[1] Tournament reduced to 54 holes after the third round was cancelled due to heavy rain.

[2] Ozaki won with a bogey on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

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