The Japan Challenge Tour, currently titled as the ACN Tour, is a series of developmental

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tournaments run by the

Japan Golf Tour The Japan Golf Tour () is a prominent professional golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006, it offered the third-highest annual prize fund out of the regular (that is not for seniors) men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the ...

Organization. It has been in operation since 1985. In 2023, the schedule featured 12 tournaments, with prize funds of mostly . This is about a tenth of the level of prize money per event on offer on the main Japan Golf Tour, with the main tour also having a longer season.

History

In January 2018, the tour signed a sponsor title agreement with

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, being renamed as the AbemaTV Tour for the 2018 season onwards. The agreement lasted until the end of the 2024 season. In March 2025, it was announced that would become the new title sponsor of the tour, being renamed as the ACN Tour. In July 2018, it was also announced that the tour would be included into the

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starting in 2019, with the winner receiving a minimum of 4 points for a 54-hole event. The top 20 players earn entry into the Japan Golf Tour.

Money list winners

References

External links

Current season schedule on the Japan Golf Tour's official site
{{Men's Professional Golf Tours Professional golf tours