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Japan Golf Tour Championship
Tournament information
LocationKasama, Ibaraki
Established2000
Course(s)Shishido Hills Country Club
Par71
Length7,384 yards (6,752 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥150,000,000
Month playedJune
Tournament record score
Aggregate268 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
To par−20 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
Current champion
Japan Mikumu Horikawa

The Japan Golf Tour Championship (日本ゴルフツアー選手権, Nihon gorufu tsuā senshuken) is an annual major golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Currently its main sponsor is Mori Building. It was founded in 2000. It has been played at Shishido Hills Country Club since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, it was played at Horai Country Club.

Prize money was ¥120,000,000 from 2000 to 2005 and has been ¥150,000,000 since 2006, except for 2010 when it was ¥120,000,000. In 2000 the weather shortened the event to 54 holes and the prize money was reduced by 25% from ¥120,000,000 to ¥90,000,000.

Winners

Year Winner Country Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills
2019 Mikumu Horikawa  Japan 269 −15 4 strokes Japan Shugo Imahira
2018 Kodai Ichihara  Japan 272 −12 1 stroke Japan Ryuko Tokimatsu
2017 Shaun Norris  South Africa 271 −13 4 strokes United States Seungsu Han
2016 Yosuke Tsukada  Japan 282 −2 1 stroke New Zealand Michael Hendry
2015 Liang Wenchong  China 270 −14 5 strokes Australia Brad Kennedy
Japan Ryutaro Nagano
South Korea Song Young-han
2014 Yoshitaka Takeya  Japan 271 −17 2 strokes South Korea Lee Sang-hee
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2013 Satoshi Kodaira  Japan 274 −14 1 stroke Thailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat
South Korea Hur Suk-ho
Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills
2012 Yoshinori Fujimoto  Japan 271 −13 2 strokes Japan Masamichi Uehira
2011 Park Jae-bum  South Korea 278 −6 1 stroke Japan Daisuke Maruyama
2010 Katsumasa Miyamoto  Japan 279 −5 3 strokes Japan Hiroyuki Fujita
UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2009 Yuji Igarashi  Japan 276 −8 1 stroke South Korea Jang Ik-jae
New Zealand David Smail
Japan Toru Suzuki
2008 Hidemasa Hoshino  Japan 272 −12 5 strokes Australia Brendan Jones
Japan Takao Nogami
2007 Shingo Katayama  Japan 271 −9 1 stroke Japan Naoya Takemoto
2006 Tatsuhiko Takahashi  Japan 273 −7 3 strokes Japan Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup
2005 Kazuhiko Hosokawa  Japan 273 −7 Playoff Japan Yasuharu Imano
New Zealand David Smail
2004 Hur Suk-ho  South Korea 279 −5 Playoff Japan Tomohiro Kondo
2003 Toshimitsu Izawa  Japan 270 −14 1 stroke New Zealand David Smail
Japan Tadahiro Takayama
Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup
2002 Nobuhito Sato  Japan 268 −20 6 strokes Japan Kenichi Kuboya
2001 Katsumasa Miyamoto  Japan 273 −15 7 strokes Colombia Eduardo Herrera
India Jeev Milkha Singh
JGTO TPC iiyama Cup
2000 Toshimitsu Izawa  Japan 203* −13 3 strokes Japan Kaname Yokoo

PO Indicates a win in a playoff
* Weather-shortened to 54 holes
Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

JGT major golf championships

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