2025 Japan Golf Tour

The 2025 Japan Golf Tour is the 52nd season of the Japan Golf Tour (formerly the PGA of Japan Tour), the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.

2025 Japan Golf Tour season

Duration	10 April 2025 (2025-04-10) – 7 December 2025 (2025-12-07)
Number of official events	25
← 2024 2026 →

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2025 season.^[1][2]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (¥)	Winner[a]	OWGR points	Other tours[b]	Notes
13 Apr	Token Homemate Cup	Mie	130,000,000	Tatsunori Shogenji (1)	8.14
27 Apr	Maezawa Cup	Chiba	200,000,000	Takanori Konishi (1)	6.77		New tournament
4 May	The Crowns	Aichi	110,000,000	Yosuke Asaji (4)	6.92
18 May	Kansai Open Golf Championship	Shiga	80,000,000	Kota Kaneko (1)	8.04
25 May	Japan PGA Championship	Gifu	150,000,000	Taisei Shimizu (1)	8.23		Japan major
1 Jun	Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open	Okayama	100,000,000	Mikiya Akutsu (1)	8.38
8 Jun	BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup	Ibaraki	150,000,000	Taiga Semikawa (5)	8.45		Japan major
15 Jun	Hana Bank Invitational	South Korea	₩1,300,000,000	Shaun Norris (8)	9.53	KOR
29 Jun	Japan Players Championship	Tochigi	50,000,000	Tatsunori Shogenji (2)	8.73
3 Aug	Richard Mille Charity Tournament	Ishikawa	100,000,000				New tournament
17 Aug	ISPS Handa Explosion in the Summer	Hokkaidō	60,000,000				New tournament
24 Aug	ISPS Handa Summer Golf Battle	Hokkaidō	213,000,000				New tournament
31 Aug	Sansan KBC Augusta	Fukuoka	100,000,000
7 Sep	Fujisankei Classic	Yamanashi	110,000,000
14 Sep	Shinhan Donghae Open	South Korea	₩1,400,000,000			ASA, KOR
21 Sep	ANA Open	Hokkaidō	100,000,000
28 Sep	Panasonic Open Golf Championship	Osaka	100,000,000
5 Oct	Vantelin Tokai Classic	Aichi	110,000,000
19 Oct	Japan Open Golf Championship	Tochigi	210,000,000				Japan major
2 Nov	Fortinet Players Cup	Chiba	100,000,000
9 Nov	ACN Championship	Hyōgo	100,000,000
16 Nov	Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters	Shizuoka	200,000,000
23 Nov	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament	Miyazaki	200,000,000
30 Nov	Casio World Open	Kōchi	180,000,000
7 Dec	Golf Nippon Series JT Cup	Tokyo	130,000,000				Japan major

Unofficial events

The following events were sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (¥)	Winner(s)	OWGR points	Other tours[b]	Notes
13 Apr	Masters Tournament	United States	US$21,000,000	Rory McIlroy	100		Major championship
18 May	PGA Championship	United States	US$19,000,000	Scottie Scheffler	100		Major championship
15 Jun	U.S. Open	United States	US$21,500,000	J. J. Spaun	100		Major championship
20 Jul	The Open Championship	Northern Ireland	US$17,000,000	Scottie Scheffler	100		Major championship
12 Oct	Baycurrent Classic	Kanagawa	US$8,500,000			PGAT	Limited-field event
14 Dec	Hitachi 3Tours Championship	Chiba	57,000,000		n/a		Team event

Japan Challenge Tour

2025 Japan Challenge Tour season

Duration	2 April 2025 (2025-04-02) – 24 October 2025 (2025-10-24)
Number of official events	13
← 2024 2026 →

The 2025 Japan Challenge Tour, titled as the 2025 ACN Tour, is the 40th season of the Japan Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the Japan Golf Tour.

ACN title sponsorship

In March, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with ACN [ja], being renamed as the ACN Tour.^[3]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2025 season.^[4]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (¥)	Winner[c]	OWGR points
4 Apr	Novil Cup	Tokushima	15,000,000	Kota Takeda (a) (1)	2.92
25 Apr	i Golf Shaper Challenge	Fukuoka	18,000,000	Taiga Yamamoto (1)	2.73
9 May	Japan Players Championship Challenge	Fukui	15,000,000	Taiga Mishima (1)	3.17
30 May	Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament	Saitama	15,000,000	Shotaro Tanaka (1)	2.33
13 Jun	Landic Challenge 12	Fukuoka	18,000,000	Ryunosuke Furukawa (1)	3.69
20 Jun	Japan Create Challenge	Fukuoka	20,000,000	Yuto Katsumata (1)	3.85
4 Jul	Minami Akita CC Michinoku Challenge	Akita	15,000,000	Yuki Moriyama (1)	3.56
8 Aug	Juchi Golf Challenge Tournament	Tochigi	15,000,000
30 Aug	Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Challenge	Fukushima	15,000,000
12 Sep	K-dash Second Challenge Cup	Ibaraki	20,000,000
3 Oct	Ryo Ishikawa Everyone Project Challenge	Tochigi	18,000,000
10 Oct	Elite Grips Challenge	Hyōgo	15,000,000
24 Oct	Delight Works JGTO Final	Ibaraki	20,000,000

Notes

1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Japan Golf Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Japan Golf Tour members.
2. ASA − Asian Tour; KOR − Korean Tour; PGAT − PGA Tour.
3. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Japan Challenge Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Japan Challenge Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the Japan Golf Tour.