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.

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

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