Ube Kosan Open
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Established | 1973 |
| Course(s) | Ube 72 Country Club |
| Tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Final year | 2001 |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 264 Shigeki Maruyama (1993) 264 Hidemichi Tanaka (1996) |
| To par | −21 Dean Wilson (2001) |
| Final champion | |
 Dean Wilson | |
| Location map | |
  Ube 72 Country Club Location in Japan  Ube 72 Country Club Location in Yamaguchi Prefecture | |
The Ube Kosan Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near Ube, Yamaguchi. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour.
In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat Graham Marsh, Brian Jones and Shozo Miyamoto.[1] This record still stands today.
Tournament hosts
| Year(s) | Host course | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1976, 1978, 1980–2001 | Ube 72 Country Club (various courses) | Ube, Yamaguchi |
| 1979 | Hachinohe Country Club | Hashikami, Aomori |
| 1974 | Katayamazu Golf Club (Hakusan) | Kaga, Ishikawa |
| 1972–1973, 1975, 1977 | Yokohama Country Club (West) | Yokohama, Kanagawa |
Winners
| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ube Kosan Open | ||||||
| 2001 | Dean Wilson |
267 | −21 |  |
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| 2000 |  Keiichiro Fukabori |
276 | −12 | |
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| 1999 |  K. J. Choi |
272 | −16 | |
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| 1998 | Brandt Jobe |
271 | −17 | |
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| 1997 |  Shigenori Mori |
267 | −17 | |
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| Pepsi Ube Kosan Open | ||||||
| 1996 | Hidemichi Tanaka |
264 | −20 | |
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| 1995 | Mitsutaka Kusakabe |
206[a] | −10 | |
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| 1994 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima |
268 | −16 | |
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| 1993 | Shigeki Maruyama |
264 | −20 | |
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| 1992 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima |
275 | −13 | |
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| Ube Kosan Open | ||||||
| 1991 |  Chen Tze-chung |
274 | −10 | |
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| Pepsi Ube Kosan Open | ||||||
| 1990 | Tadao Nakamura |
203[a] | −10 | |
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| 1989 | Akihito Yokoyama |
203[a] | −13 | Playoff | Yoshimi Niizeki |
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| Pepsi Ube Open | ||||||
| 1988 | Mamoru Kondo |
169[b] | −11 | |
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| 1987 | Chen Tze-ming |
278 | −10 | Playoff | Hiroshi Makino |
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| 1986 | Naomichi Ozaki |
276 | −12 | |
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| 1985 | Chen Tze-ming |
268 | −20 | |
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| 1984 | Yasuhiro Funatogawa |
272 | −16 | |
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| 1983 | Seiichi Kanai |
274 | −14 | |
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| 1982 | Kikuo Arai |
277 | −11 | |
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| Pepsi-Wilson Tournament | ||||||
| 1981 |  Graham Marsh |
270 | −18 | |
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| 1980 | Norio Suzuki |
276 | −12 | |
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| 1979 |  Mya Aye |
274 | −10 | |
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| 1978 | Masashi Ozaki |
275 | −13 | |
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| 1977 | Masashi Ozaki |
274 | −14 | |
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| 1976 | Peter Thomson |
211[a] | −5 | Playoff[c] | Brian Jones Graham Marsh Shozo Miyamoto |
[1] |
| 1975 | Hsieh Yung-yo |
283 | −5 | 1 stroke | Graham Marsh Toshiaki Sekimizu |
[2] |
| Pepsi Tournament | ||||||
| 1974 | Graham Marsh |
284 | −4 | Playoff[d] | Hsieh Yung-yo |
[3] |
| 1973 | Isao Aoki |
281 | −7 | Playoff | Kosaku Shimada |
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| 1972 | Peter Thomson |
279 | −9 | 1 stroke | Chen Chien-chung Han Chang-sang Takashi Murakami |
[4] |
References
- ^ a b "Thomson wins 14-hole play-off". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 24 May 1976. p. 13. Retrieved 28 July 2020 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ McCormack, Mark (1976). The World of Professional Golf 1976. Collins. pp. 291, 482. ISBN 000211996X.
- ^ McCormack, Mark (1975). The World of Professional Golf 1975. Collins. pp. 253–254, 431–432. ISBN 0002119552.
- ^ "Thomson victor in Pepsi golf". The Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. AP. 22 May 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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