Japan Golf Tour Championship

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
Location	Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan
Established	2000
Course(s)	Shishido Hills Country Club
Par	71
Length	7,387 yards (6,755 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥150,000,000
Month played	June
Tournament record score
Aggregate	268 Nobuhito Sato (2002)
To par	−20 as above
Current champion
Taiga Semikawa
Location map
Shishido Hills CC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Shishido Hills CC Location in the Ibaraki Prefecture Show map of Ibaraki Prefecture

Tournament hosts

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

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

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup
2025	Taiga Semikawa	272	−10	Playoff	Mikumu Horikawa
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

• Japan PGA Championship
• Japan Open Golf Championship
• Golf Nippon Series JT Cup

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

External links

• Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site