The Yomiuri Open was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1970 as the Wizard Tournament, a 36-hole invitational tournament,[1] it was played at Hashimoto Country Club in Wakayama until 1979 when it moved to Yomiuri Country Club in Hyōgo. With the move, it also became a full 72-hole tour event, having been extended to 54 holes in 1976, and adopted its new name.[2] It remained at Yomiuri every year except for 1996, when it was played at Wakasu Golf Links in Tokyo. In 2007 it merged with the Mizuno Open to form the Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic.

Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open
Tournament information
LocationNishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
Established1970
Course(s)Yomiuri Country Club
Par72
Length7,161 yards (6,548 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥100,000,000
Month playedJune
Final year2006
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 Kazuhiro Fukunaga (1996)
266 Todd Hamilton (1996)
To par−20 Dinesh Chand (2004)
Final champion
Japan Nobuhiro Masuda
Location map
Yomiuri CC is located in Japan
Yomiuri CC
Yomiuri CC
Location in Japan
Yomiuri CC is located in Hyōgo Prefecture
Yomiuri CC
Yomiuri CC
Location in the Hyogo Prefecture

Tournament hosts

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Year(s) Host course Location
1979–1995, 1997–2006 Yomiuri Country Club Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
1996 Wakasu Golf Links Kōtō, Tokyo
1970–1978 Hashimoto Country Club Hashimoto, Wakayama

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Ref.
Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open
2006   Nobuhiro Masuda 274 −14 1 stroke   Yang Yong-eun
2005   Satoru Hirota 270 −18 1 stroke   Shinichi Akiba
  Tetsuji Hiratsuka
2004   Dinesh Chand 268 −20 4 strokes   Tetsuji Hiratsuka
  Hur Suk-ho
2003   Hideto Tanihara 200[a] −16 3 strokes   Nobuhito Sato [3]
Tamanoi Yomiuri Open
2002   Toru Taniguchi 270 −18 2 strokes   Satoru Hirota
  Daisuke Maruyama
2001   Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa 272 −16 Playoff   Toru Suzuki
2000   Yoshi Mizumaki 271 −17 3 strokes   Hisayuki Sasaki
Super Mario Yomiuri Open
1999   Kim Jong-duck 270 −18 3 strokes   Hajime Meshiai
  Hidemichi Tanaka
Yomiuri Open
1998   Brian Watts 134[b] −10 1 stroke   Kaname Yokoo [4]
1997   Shigeki Maruyama 267 −17 2 strokes   Naomichi Ozaki
Pocari Sweat Yomiuri Open
1996   Kazuhiro Fukunaga 266 −18 Playoff   Todd Hamilton
1995   Eduardo Herrera 272 −12 1 stroke   Hiroyuki Fujita
Yomiuri Open
1994   Tsukasa Watanabe 270 −14 2 strokes   Anthony Gilligan
Yomiuri Sapporo Beer Open
1993   Katsuji Hasegawa 203[a] −13 Playoff   Hajime Meshiai
1992   David Ishii 278 −10 1 stroke   Brian Jones
1991   Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) 272 −16 3 strokes   Rick Gibson
1990   Saburo Fujiki (2) 205[a] −11 1 stroke   Taisei Inagaki
1989   Hajime Meshiai 205[a] −11 2 strokes   Naomichi Ozaki
1988   Masahiro Kuramoto 277 −11 4 strokes   Ian Baker-Finch
  Tsukasa Watanabe
  Yoshikazu Yokoshima
1987   Satoshi Higashi 280 −8 1 stroke   Graham Marsh
  Hajime Meshiai
1986   Koichi Suzuki 273 −19 2 strokes   Brian Jones
1985   Tsuneyuki Nakajima 275 −17 3 strokes   Katsuji Hasegawa
Yomiuri Open
1984   Saburo Fujiki 281 −11 4 strokes   Shinsaku Maeda [5]
1983   Graham Marsh (4) 280 −12 Playoff   Tōru Nakamura
1982   Terry Gale 276 −16 3 strokes   Masahiro Kuramoto
  Tsuneyuki Nakajima
  Namio Takasu
  Nobumitsu Yuhara
[6]
1981   Namio Takasu 285 −7 Playoff   Hsieh Yung-yo [2]
1980   Isao Aoki 283 −9 1 stroke   Teruo Sugihara [7]
1979   Teruo Sugihara (2) 287 −5 Playoff   Masashi Ozaki
Wizard Tournament
1978   Tōru Nakamura 214 −2 1 stroke   Kikuo Arai
  Yoshitaka Yamamoto
[1]
1977   Graham Marsh (3) 220 +4 2 strokes   Seiji Kusakabe [8]
1976   Graham Marsh (2) 212 −4 1 stroke   Haruo Yasuda [9]
1975   Graham Marsh 141 −3 1 stroke   Lu Liang-Huan [10][11]
1974   Teruo Sugihara 146 +2 Playoff   Kosaku Shimada [12]
1973   Yoshitaka Yamamoto
1972   Masashi Ozaki 144 E Playoff   Peter Thomson [13]
1971   Peter Thomson 143 −1 1 stroke   Lu Liang-Huan [14][15]
1970   Hsieh Yung-yo 146 +2 [16]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
  2. ^ Shortened to 36 holes due to weather.

References

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  1. ^ a b McCormack, Mark (1979). Dunhill Golf Yearbook 1979. Doubleday Publishing. pp. 245, 386–387. ISBN 0385149409.
  2. ^ a b McCormack, Mark (1982). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982. Springwood Books. pp. 237–238, 456. ISBN 0862541018.
  3. ^ "Tanihara on fire". Japan Times. Kyodo News. 22 June 2003. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Watts picks up first victory on Japanese golf tour". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. AP. 22 June 1998. p. E5. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ McCormack, Mark (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 232, 459–460. ISBN 0862541247.
  6. ^ "Gale storms in to post maiden Japan victory". The Straits Times. Singapore. 22 June 1982. p. 36 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  7. ^ McCormack, Mark (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Springwood Books. pp. 174, 381–382. ISBN 0862540054.
  8. ^ "Marsh victor for the 3rd time". Pacific Stars And Stripes. 10 May 1977 – via NewspaperArchive.
  9. ^ "Marsh in with a hot finish". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 10 May 1976. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via Google News Archive.
  10. ^ McCormack, Mark (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 290–291, 479–480. ISBN 000211996X.
  11. ^ "Marsh darts out of bunch to win title". The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 May 1975. p. 26 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  12. ^ "Sugihara wins sudden death playoff". The Straits Times. Singapore. 4 May 1974. p. 29 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  13. ^ "Ozaki wins playoff". The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 May 1972. p. 29 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  14. ^ "Thomson wins". The Straits Times. Singapore. 4 May 1971. p. 23 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  15. ^ "Australian golfer wins Wizard event". Uniontown Evening Standard. Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Associated Press. 4 May 1971 – via NewspaperArchive.
  16. ^ "Chinese pro Wizard champ". Star News. Pasadena, California. 5 May 1970 – via NewspaperArchive.
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