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The Japan Challenge Tour is a series of developmental golf tournaments run by the Japan Golf Tour Organization. It has been in operation since 1985. The 2015 schedule featured 17 tournaments, with a prize fund of ¥ 10 million to ¥15 million. This is around a tenth of the level of prize money per event on offer on the main Japanese Tour, and the main tour also has a longer season.
Tournament schedules
2015 season
Date
Tournament
Location
Prize fund (¥ )
Winner
5 Apr
Novil Cup
Tokushima
15,000,000
Park Il-hwan
1 May
Fuji Home Service Challenge Cup
Shiga
10,000,000
Yujiro Ohori
8 May
Japan Create Challenge
Fukuoka
10,000,000
Masashi Hidaka
22 May
HEIWA PGM Challenge I Road to Championship
Hiroshima
10,000,000
Tatsunori Nukaga
29 May
Good Job Challenge
Ibaraki
10,000,000
Yu Morimoto
11 Jun
ISPS Handa Global Challenge Cup
Chiba
13,000,000
Shigeru Nonaka
19 Jun
Musee Platinum Challenge Tournament
Fukushima
10,000,000
Yosuke Asaji
26 Jun
LANDIC Challenge
Fukuoka
10,000,000
Tomoyo Ikemura
3 Jul
HEIWA PGM Challenge II Road to Championship
Ibaraki
10,000,000
Keiichi Kaneko
31 Jul
Minami Akita Country Club Challenge Tournament
Akita
10,000,000
Yu Morimoto
21 Aug
PGA JGTO Challenge Cup
Chiba
13,000,000
Keiichi Kaneko
4 Sep
Elite Grips Challenge
Gunma
10,000,000
Tomoyo Ikemura
11 Sep
Himawari Dragon CUP
Chiba
10,000,000
Koichi Sugimoto
18 Sep
Seven Dreamers Challenge
Chiba
10,000,000
Shota Akiyoshi
10 Oct
Everyone Project Challenge Golf Tournament
Tochigi
10,000,000
Shota Akiyoshi
16 Oct
Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament
Ibaraki
10,000,000
Hiroaki Hirai
23 Oct
JGTO Novil Final
Chiba
10,000,000
Masamichi Uehira
2014 season
Date
Tournament
Location
Prize fund (¥ )
Winner
6 Apr
Novil Cup
Tokushima
15,000,000
Soushi Tajima
9 May
Plus One Fukuoka Raizan Challenge
Fukuoka
10,000,000
Peter Wilson
23 May
Heiwa PGM Challenge I Road to Championship
Hyōgo
10,000,000
Shugo Imahira
13 Jun
Fuji Country Kani Club Challenge Cup
Gifu
10,000,000
Toru Suzuki
27 Jun
Landic Golf Tournament Associa Mansion Memorial
Fukuoka
10,000,000
Shintaro Kai
10 Jul
ISPS Charity Challenge Tournament
Shizuoka
15,000,000
Shota Akiyoshi
25 Jul
Heiwa PGM Challenge II Road to Championship
Niigata
10,000,000
Kiyoshi Miyazato
1 Aug
Akita TV Minamiakita CC Challenge
Akita
10,000,000
Yasunobu Fukunaga
22 Aug
PGA JGTO Challenge Cup
Chiba
13,000,000
Taigen Tsumagari
5 Sep
Madame Shinco Challenge Tournament
Hyōgo
10,000,000
Peter Wilson
12 Sep
Himawari Dragon Cup
Chiba
10,000,000
Toru Suzuki
19 Sep
Seven Dreamers Challenge
Chiba
10,000,000
Yuki Inamori
26 Sep
Elite Grips Challenge
Mie
10,000,000
Yuichiro Nishi
4 Oct
Ishikawa Ryo Everyone Project Challenge
Tochigi
15,000,000
Katsufumi Okino
10 Oct
Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament
Ibaraki
10,000,000
Richard Hattori
24 Oct
JGTO Novil Final
Chiba
10,000,000
Shugo Imahira
2013 season
2012 season
2011 season
2010 season
Money list winners
Year
Player
Country
Prize money (¥ )
2005
Shoichi Ideguchi
Japan
5,070,263
2006
Takaki Ono
Japan
7,710,069
2007
Michio Matsumura
Japan
6,685,183
2008
Masamichi Uehira
Japan
6,329,033
2009
Chris Campbell
Australia
6,136,154
2010
Dinesh Chand
Fiji
4,780,625
2011
Tatsunori Nukaga
Japan
5,846,275
2012
Yuki Koko
Japan
4,607,237
2013
K T Kwon
South Korea
5,326,885
2014
Shugo Imahira
Japan
7,444,288
2015
Yu Morimoto
Japan
4,479,531
Source:[ 1]
References
External links
Principal tours and their development tours Other tours Senior tours Defunct tours