Tsuruya Open

The Tsuruya Open (つるやオープンゴルフトーナメント, Tsuruya ōpun gorufu tōnamento) was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It was played annually from 1994 to 2014 on the Yamanohara Course at Yamanohara Golf Club, formerly Sports Shinko Country Club, near Kawanishi, Hyōgo.

Tsuruya Open

Tournament information
Location	Kawanishi, Hyōgo, Japan
Established	1994
Course(s)	Yamanohara Golf Club
Par	71
Length	6,804 yards (6,222 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥110,000,000
Month played	April
Final year	2014
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Tomohiro Kondo (2011)
To par	−19 as above
Final champion
Hiroyuki Fujita
Location map
Yamanohara GC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Yamanohara GC Location in the Hyōgo Prefecture Show map of Hyōgo Prefecture

The tournament scoring records of 265 (−19) were set by Tomohiro Kondo in 2011. In its final year in 2014, the purse was ¥110,000,000 with ¥22,000,000 going to the winner.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
2014	Hiroyuki Fujita (3)	271	−13	Playoff	Park Sang-hyun
2013	Hideki Matsuyama	266	−18	1 stroke	David Oh
2012	Hiroyuki Fujita (2)	269	−15	4 strokes	Lee Kyoung-hoon
2011	Tomohiro Kondo	265	−19	4 strokes	Bae Sang-moon Nobuhiro Masuda
2010	Hiroyuki Fujita	199[a]	−14	Playoff	Toru Taniguchi
2009	Masaya Tomida	198[a]	−15	2 strokes	David Smail
2008	Hur Suk-ho	272	−12	1 stroke	Kim Kyung-tae
2007	Brendan Jones (3)	268	−16	2 strokes	Masahiro Kuramoto Hirofumi Miyase Toru Taniguchi
2006	Brendan Jones (2)	273	−11	2 strokes	Mamo Osanai
2005	Naomichi Ozaki (2)	271	−13	3 strokes	Ryoken Kawagishi Paul Sheehan
2004	Brendan Jones	275	−9	2 strokes	Keiichiro Fukabori Scott Laycock Tatsuya Mitsuhashi Taichi Teshima Shinichi Yokota
2003	Hirofumi Miyase	270	−14	Playoff	Takashi Kanemoto Hisayuki Sasaki
2002	Dean Wilson	273	−11	2 strokes	Toru Taniguchi
2001	Hidemichi Tanaka	274	−14	2 strokes	Masayuki Kawamura
2000	Richard Backwell	278	−10	Playoff	Hidemichi Tanaka
1999	Naomichi Ozaki	273	−15	2 strokes	Toru Suzuki
1998	Katsumasa Miyamoto	271	−17	1 stroke	Peter McWhinney
1997	Mitsuo Harada	279	−9	4 strokes	Shigeki Maruyama
1996	Peter McWhinney	276	−12	1 stroke	Peter Senior
1995	Satoshi Higashi	279	−9	1 stroke	Kōki Idoki Katsunori Kuwabara Roger Mackay Kiyoshi Maita Yoshi Mizumaki
1994	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	279	−9	Playoff	Tsutomu Higa

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

External links

• Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site