The Shizuoka Open was a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament that was held in Japan. Founded in 1972, it was an event on 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 ...
from 1974. It was last played in 2002 having been dropped from the 2003 tour schedule for financial reasons.
It was played over the Hamaoka Course at Shizuoka Country Club near
Omaezaki
is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Omaezaki is located at the tip of Omaezaki Peninsula on Japan's Pacific coast. , the city had an estimated population of 32,422 in 12,095 households and a population density of 490 persons per ...
in
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Pref ...
.
Winners
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External links
Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site
Former Japan Golf Tour events
Defunct golf tournaments in Japan
Sport in Shizuoka Prefecture
Recurring sporting events established in 1972
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2002
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