Kirin Open

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.^[1][2] It was also a fixture on the Japan Golf Tour from 1974 until 2001.

Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open

Tournament information
Location	Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan
Established	1972
Course(s)	Ibaraki Golf Club
Par	71
Length	7,049 yards (6,446 m)
Tour(s)	Asia Golf Circuit Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥100,000,000
Month played	April
Final year	2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Kuo Chie-Hsiung (1978)
To par	−23 as above
Final champion
Shingo Katayama
Location map
Ibaraki GC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Ibaraki GC Location in the Ibaraki Prefecture Show map of Ibaraki Prefecture

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.

Winners

Year	Tour(s)[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open
2001	JPN	Shingo Katayama (2)	271	−13	6 strokes	Hajime Meshiai
2000	JPN	Shingo Katayama	280	−4	2 strokes	Lin Keng-chi Peter Senior Andre Stolz
Kirin Open
1999	AGC, JPN	K. J. Choi	204[b]	−9	Playoff[c]	Jeev Milkha Singh	[3]
1998	AGC, JPN	Frankie Miñoza (2)	279	−5	1 stroke	Hidemichi Tanaka Tsukasa Watanabe Brian Watts
1997	AGC, JPN	Kim Jong-duck	278	−10	2 strokes	Shigeki Maruyama Hirofumi Miyase Tateo Ozaki Brian Watts
1996	AGC, JPN	Yoshinori Kaneko	278	−10	1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima Nobuo Serizawa
Dunlop Open
1995	AGC, JPN	Peter Senior	279	−9	5 strokes	Brian Watts	[4]
1994	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki (4)	274	−14	1 stroke	Hsieh Chin-sheng	[5]
1993	AGC, JPN	Hajime Meshiai	275	−13	2 strokes	Katsunari Takahashi Kevin Wentworth	[6]
1992	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki (3)	286	−2	Playoff[d]	Brent Franklin	[7]
1991	AGC, JPN	Roger Mackay	272	−16	2 strokes	Teruo Sugihara	[8]
1990	AGC, JPN	Frankie Miñoza	205[b]	−11	Playoff[e]	Teruo Sugihara	[9]
1989	AGC, JPN	Terry Gale	284	−4	1 stroke	Chen Tze-ming Peter Senior	[10]
1988	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki (2)	278	−10	3 strokes	David Ishii	[11]
Dunlop International Open
1987	AGC, JPN	Isao Aoki	277	−11	1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima Yoshitaka Yamamoto	[12]
1986	AGC, JPN	Hideto Shigenobu	281	−7	2 strokes	David Ishii Masahiro Kuramoto	[13]
1985	AGC, JPN	Chen Tze-chung	277	−11	1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	[14]
1984	AGC, JPN	John Jacobs	283	−5	2 strokes	Tateo Ozaki	[15]
1983	AGC, JPN	Larry Nelson	201[b]	−15	1 stroke	Masahiro Kuramoto	[16][17]
1982	AGC, JPN	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	276	−12	5 strokes	Saburo Fujiki	[18]
1981	AGC, JPN	Kosaku Shimada	286	−2	2 strokes	Payne Stewart Koichi Uehara Akira Yabe	[19]
1980	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki	277	−11	5 strokes	Ho Ming-chung Graham Marsh	[20]
1979	AGC, JPN	Hiroshi Ishii	278	−10	3 strokes	Seiji Ebihara Tateo Ozaki Katsunari Takahashi	[21]
1978	AGC, JPN	Kuo Chie-Hsiung	265	−23	11 strokes	Bob Byman	[22]
1977	AGC, JPN	Ben Arda (2)	282	−6	2 strokes	Terry Kendall Tsuneyuki Nakajima	[23]
Sobu International Open
1976	AGC, JPN	Ben Arda	277	−11	4 strokes	Chen Chien-chung	[24]
1975	AGC, JPN	Teruo Sugihara	282	−6	2 strokes	Ted Ball Hsu Sheng-san Hideyo Sugimoto	[25]
1974	AGC, JPN	Lu Liang-Huan	280	−8	4 strokes	Masashi Ozaki Fumio Tanaka	[26]
1973	AGC	Shigeru Uchida	279	−9	Playoff[f]	Masashi Ozaki	[27]
1972	AGC	Hsieh Min-Nan	279	−9	2 strokes	Ben Arda	[28]

Notes

1. AGC − Asia Golf Circuit; JPN − Japan Golf Tour.
2. Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
3. Choi won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
4. Ozaki won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
5. Miñoza won with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden death playoff.
6. Uchida won with a 180-yard hole-out for eagle on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.