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Japan Golf Tour Championship

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BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup
Tournament information
LocationKasama, Ibaraki, Japan
Established2000
Course(s)Shishido Hills Country Club
Par71
Length7,387 yards (6,755 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 as above
Current champion
Japan Hiroshi Iwata
Location map
Shishido Hills CC is located in Japan
Shishido Hills CC
Shishido Hills CC
Location in Japan
Shishido Hills CC is located in Ibaraki Prefecture
Shishido Hills CC
Shishido Hills CC
Location in the Ibaraki Prefecture

The Japan Golf Tour Championship (日本ゴルフツアー選手権, Nihon gorufu tsuā senshuken) is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 2000, it is one of the four major championships on the tour.

Tournament hosts

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The Japan Golf Tour Championship has been played at Shishido Hills Country Club since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, it was played at Horai Country Club.

Prize money

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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

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup
2024 Japan Hiroshi Iwata 271 −13 Playoff Japan Ryo Ishikawa
2023 Japan Takumi Kanaya 273 −11 2 strokes Japan Yuki Inamori
Japan Hiroshi Iwata
2022 Japan Kazuki Higa 272 −12 1 stroke Japan Tomoharu Otsuki
Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Shishido Hills
2021 Japan Ryosuke Kinoshita 270 −14 5 strokes Japan Yuki Furuwaka
2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Japan Mikumu Horikawa 269 −15 4 strokes Japan Shugo Imahira
2018 Japan Kodai Ichihara 272 −12 1 stroke Japan Ryuko Tokimatsu
2017 South Africa Shaun Norris 271 −13 4 strokes United States Seungsu Han
2016 Japan Yosuke Tsukada 282 −2 1 stroke New Zealand Michael Hendry
2015 China Liang Wenchong 270 −14 5 strokes Australia Brad Kennedy
Japan Ryutaro Nagano
South Korea Song Young-han
2014 Japan Yoshitaka Takeya 271 −17 2 strokes South Korea Lee Sang-hee
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
2013 Japan Satoshi Kodaira 274 −14 1 stroke Thailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat
South Korea Hur Suk-ho
Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills
2012 Japan Yoshinori Fujimoto 271 −13 2 strokes Japan Masamichi Uehira
2011 South Korea Park Jae-bum 278 −6 1 stroke Japan Daisuke Maruyama
2010 Japan Katsumasa Miyamoto (2) 279 −5 3 strokes Japan Hiroyuki Fujita
UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills
2009 Japan Yuji Igarashi 276 −8 1 stroke South Korea Jang Ik-jae
New Zealand David Smail
Japan Toru Suzuki
2008 Japan Hidemasa Hoshino 272 −12 5 strokes Australia Brendan Jones
Japan Takao Nogami
2007 Japan Shingo Katayama 271 −9 1 stroke Japan Naoya Takemoto
2006 Japan Tatsuhiko Takahashi 273 −7 3 strokes Japan Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup
2005 Japan Kazuhiko Hosokawa 273 −7 Playoff Japan Yasuharu Imano
New Zealand David Smail
2004 South Korea Hur Suk-ho 279 −5 Playoff Japan Tomohiro Kondo
2003 Japan Toshimitsu Izawa (2) 270 −14 1 stroke New Zealand David Smail
Japan Tadahiro Takayama
Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup
2002 Japan Nobuhito Sato 268 −20 6 strokes Japan Kenichi Kuboya
2001 Japan Katsumasa Miyamoto 273 −15 7 strokes Colombia Eduardo Herrera
India Jeev Milkha Singh
JGTO TPC iiyama Cup
2000 Japan Toshimitsu Izawa 203[a] −13 3 strokes Japan Kaname Yokoo

Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
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