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Kirin Open

Golf tournament

The Kirin Open was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1972 as the season ending event on the Asia Golf Circuit, replacing the Yomiuri International which had been cancelled when sponsors decided to discontinue the event. It was also a fixture on the Japan Golf Tour from 1974 until 2001.

It was played at Sobu Country Club in Inzai until 1976. In 1977 Dunlop became title sponsors and the tournament was moved to Ibaraki Golf Club in Ibaraki.

01Winners

YearTour(s)WinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-upRef.
Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open
2001JPN Shingo Katayama (2)271−136 strokes Hajime Meshiai
2000JPN Shingo Katayama280−42 strokes Lin Keng-chi
Peter Senior
Andre Stolz
Kirin Open
1999AGC, JPN K. J. Choi204−9Playoff Jeev Milkha Singh
1998AGC, JPN Frankie Miñoza (2)279−51 stroke Hidemichi Tanaka
Tsukasa Watanabe
Brian Watts
1997AGC, JPN Kim Jong-duck278−102 strokes Shigeki Maruyama
Hirofumi Miyase
Tateo Ozaki
Brian Watts
1996AGC, JPN Yoshinori Kaneko278−101 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Nobuo Serizawa
Dunlop Open
1995AGC, JPN Peter Senior279−95 strokes Brian Watts
1994AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki (4)274−141 stroke Hsieh Chin-sheng
1993AGC, JPN Hajime Meshiai275−132 strokes Katsunari Takahashi
Kevin Wentworth
1992AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki (3)286−2Playoff Brent Franklin
1991AGC, JPN Roger Mackay272−162 strokes Teruo Sugihara
1990AGC, JPN Frankie Miñoza205−11Playoff Teruo Sugihara
1989AGC, JPN Terry Gale284−41 stroke Chen Tze-ming
Peter Senior
1988AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki (2)278−103 strokes David Ishii
Dunlop International Open
1987AGC, JPN Isao Aoki277−111 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
1986AGC, JPN Hideto Shigenobu281−72 strokes David Ishii
Masahiro Kuramoto
1985AGC, JPN Chen Tze-chung277−111 stroke Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1984AGC, JPN John Jacobs283−52 strokes Tateo Ozaki
1983AGC, JPN Larry Nelson201−151 stroke Masahiro Kuramoto
1982AGC, JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima276−125 strokes Saburo Fujiki
1981AGC, JPN Kosaku Shimada286−22 strokes Payne Stewart
Koichi Uehara
Akira Yabe
1980AGC, JPN Masashi Ozaki277−115 strokes Ho Ming-chung
Graham Marsh
1979AGC, JPN Hiroshi Ishii278−103 strokes Seiji Ebihara
Tateo Ozaki
Katsunari Takahashi
1978AGC, JPN Kuo Chie-Hsiung265−2311 strokes Bob Byman
1977AGC, JPN Ben Arda (2)282−62 strokes Terry Kendall
Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Sobu International Open
1976AGC, JPN Ben Arda277−114 strokes Chen Chien-chung
1975AGC, JPN Teruo Sugihara282−62 strokes Ted Ball
Hsu Sheng-san
Hideyo Sugimoto
1974AGC, JPN Lu Liang-Huan280−84 strokes Masashi Ozaki
Fumio Tanaka
1973AGC Shigeru Uchida279−9Playoff Masashi Ozaki
1972AGC Hsieh Min-Nan279−92 strokes Ben Arda
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