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Tsuruya Open

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Tsuruya Open
Tournament information
LocationKawanishi, Hyōgo, Japan
Established1994
Course(s)Yamanohara Golf Club
Par71
Length6,804 yards (6,222 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥110,000,000
Month playedApril
Final year2014
Tournament record score
Aggregate265 Tomohiro Kondo (2011)
To par−19 as above
Final champion
Japan Hiroyuki Fujita
Location map
Yamanohara GC is located in Japan
Yamanohara GC
Yamanohara GC
Location in Japan
Yamanohara GC is located in Hyōgo Prefecture
Yamanohara GC
Yamanohara GC
Location in the Hyōgo Prefecture

The Tsuruya Open (つるやオープンゴルフトーナメント, Tsuruya ōpun gorufu tōnamento) was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was played annually from 1994 to 2014 on the Yamanohara Course at Yamanohara Golf Club, formerly Sports Shinko Country Club, near Kawanishi, Hyōgo.

The tournament scoring records of 265 (−19) were set by Tomohiro Kondo in 2011. In its final year in 2014, the purse was ¥110,000,000 with ¥22,000,000 going to the winner.

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
2014 Japan Hiroyuki Fujita (3) 271 −13 Playoff South Korea Park Sang-hyun
2013 Japan Hideki Matsuyama 266 −18 1 stroke United States David Oh
2012 Japan Hiroyuki Fujita (2) 269 −15 4 strokes South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon
2011 Japan Tomohiro Kondo 265 −19 4 strokes South Korea Bae Sang-moon
Japan Nobuhiro Masuda
2010 Japan Hiroyuki Fujita 199[a] −14 Playoff Japan Toru Taniguchi
2009 Japan Masaya Tomida 198[a] −15 2 strokes New Zealand David Smail
2008 South Korea Hur Suk-ho 272 −12 1 stroke South Korea Kim Kyung-tae
2007 Australia Brendan Jones (3) 268 −16 2 strokes Japan Masahiro Kuramoto
Japan Hirofumi Miyase
Japan Toru Taniguchi
2006 Australia Brendan Jones (2) 273 −11 2 strokes Japan Mamo Osanai
2005 Japan Naomichi Ozaki (2) 271 −13 3 strokes Japan Ryoken Kawagishi
Australia Paul Sheehan
2004 Australia Brendan Jones 275 −9 2 strokes Japan Keiichiro Fukabori
Australia Scott Laycock
Japan Tatsuya Mitsuhashi
Japan Taichi Teshima
Japan Shinichi Yokota
2003 Japan Hirofumi Miyase 270 −14 Playoff Japan Takashi Kanemoto
Japan Hisayuki Sasaki
2002 United States Dean Wilson 273 −11 2 strokes Japan Toru Taniguchi
2001 Japan Hidemichi Tanaka 274 −14 2 strokes Japan Masayuki Kawamura
2000 Australia Richard Backwell 278 −10 Playoff Japan Hidemichi Tanaka
1999 Japan Naomichi Ozaki 273 −15 2 strokes Japan Toru Suzuki
1998 Japan Katsumasa Miyamoto 271 −17 1 stroke Australia Peter McWhinney
1997 Japan Mitsuo Harada 279 −9 4 strokes Japan Shigeki Maruyama
1996 Australia Peter McWhinney 276 −12 1 stroke Australia Peter Senior
1995 Japan Satoshi Higashi 279 −9 1 stroke Japan Kōki Idoki
Japan Katsunori Kuwabara
Australia Roger Mackay
Japan Kiyoshi Maita
Japan Yoshi Mizumaki
1994 Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima 279 −9 Playoff Japan Tsutomu Higa

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
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