The KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open is an annual tournament on the
LPGA of Japan Tour
The LPGA of Japan Tour is a professional golf tour for women organised by the Japan Ladies Professional Golfers' Association. The tour was founded in 1968. It is the second richest women's golf tour in the world. The U.S.-based LPGA Tour is the mo ...
. It was first held in 1992 at the Tamana Country Club in
Kumamoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture t ...
.
Winners
KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open
*2025
Shuri Sakuma
*2024
Rio Takeda
(born 2 April 2003) is a Japanese professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has 8 wins.
Career
Takeda was born in Kōshi, Kumamoto in 2003 and started playing golf when she was six years old. She enjoy ...
*2023
Akie Iwai
(born 5 July 2002) is a Japanese professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA Tour and on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has 6 wins.
Early life and amateur career
Iwai was born in Saitama Prefecture and started playing golf at 8 years old. In 2 ...
*2022
Nozomi Uetake
*2021
Miyū Yamashita
(born 2 August 2001) is a Japanese professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has 13 wins.
Career
Yamashita was born in Neyagawa, Osaka in 2001 and started playing golf when she was five years old. She turned profession ...
*2020 ''Cancelled''
*2019
Lee Ji-hee
Lee may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Lee'' (2007 film), Tamil-language sports action film
* ''Lee'' (2017 film), Kannada-language action film
* ''Lee'' (2023 film), biographical drama about Lee Miller, American photojournalist
* ''L ...
*2018
Mamiko Higa
Mamiko Higa (born 11 October 1993) is a Japanese professional golfer.
Amateur career
Higa represented Japan at the 2010 Asian Games. She finished 8th in the individual competition and 4th in the team competition.
Professional career
Higa play ...
*2017
Yukari Nishiyama
Yukari is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yukari can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*由加里, "reason, addition, village"
*由香里, "reason, scent, village"
*由佳� ...
*2016 ''Cancelled due to
earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...
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*2015
Erika Kikuchi
*2014
Minami Katsu
Minami Katsu (, born 1 July 1998) is a Japanese professional golfer. She is the youngest winner in the history of the LPGA of Japan Tour when she won the KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open as an amateur on 20 April 2014 at age 15.
Early life
Katsu wa ...
(amateur)
*2013
Miki Saiki
Miki may refer to:
Places
*Miki, Hyōgo, a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
*Miki, Kagawa, a town in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
*Miki, Azerbaijan, a village in Astara Rayon, Azerbaijan
People
*Miki (given name)
*Miki (surname)
*Miki Núñez (born ...
Nishijin Ladies Classic
*2012
Maiko Wakabayashi
*2011
Yuri Fudoh
is a Japanese golfer. She was the leading money winner on the JLPGA Tour six times in a row from 2000 to 2005. She became the first player on the JLPGA Tour to earn in excess of 100 million yen, a feat she accomplished in 2000, and achieved ag ...
*2010
Inbee Park
Inbee Park (, or ; born 12 July 1988) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. She has been the number one ranked player in the Women's World Golf Rankings for four separate runs: April 201 ...
Life Card Ladies
*2009
Lee Ji-hee
Lee may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Lee'' (2007 film), Tamil-language sports action film
* ''Lee'' (2017 film), Kannada-language action film
* ''Lee'' (2023 film), biographical drama about Lee Miller, American photojournalist
* ''L ...
*2008
Yukari Baba
*2007
Momoko Ueda
is a Japanese female professional golfer who in 2007 at the age of 21 became the youngest player in the history of the LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA) to finish first on the money list. She also played on the United States–based LPGA Tour for six y ...
*2006
Yuri Fudoh
is a Japanese golfer. She was the leading money winner on the JLPGA Tour six times in a row from 2000 to 2005. She became the first player on the JLPGA Tour to earn in excess of 100 million yen, a feat she accomplished in 2000, and achieved ag ...
*2005
Sakura Yokomine
is a Japanese professional golfer. She is one of the leading players on the LPGA of Japan Tour and was in the top twenty of the February 2006 debut edition of the Women's World Golf Rankings. She finished T-11 at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tourn ...
Saishunkan Ladies Hinokuni Open
*2004
Yuri Fudoh
is a Japanese golfer. She was the leading money winner on the JLPGA Tour six times in a row from 2000 to 2005. She became the first player on the JLPGA Tour to earn in excess of 100 million yen, a feat she accomplished in 2000, and achieved ag ...
*2003
Lee Ji-hee
Lee may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Lee'' (2007 film), Tamil-language sports action film
* ''Lee'' (2017 film), Kannada-language action film
* ''Lee'' (2023 film), biographical drama about Lee Miller, American photojournalist
* ''L ...
*2002
Tu Ai-yu
*2001
Kaori Higo
Kaori ( "scent/aroma, fabric/weave" and occasionally rendered "perfume", ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Kaori (voice actress) (born 1976), Japanese voice actress and singer
*, musician known as Bonni ...
*2000
Midori Yoneyama
*1999
Nahoko Hirao
*1998
Michiko Hattori
Michiko Hattori (, born 8 September 1968) is a Japanese professional golfer and former Player of the Year on the LPGA of Japan Tour. Before turning professional, she became the first Japanese born champion of the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Amateur c ...
*1997
Chikayo Yamazaki
*1996
Lee Young-me
*1995
Nayoko Yoshikawa
Nayoko Yoshikawa (, born 18 February 1949) is a Japanese professional golfer who played on the LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA) and the LPGA Tour.
Yoshikawa won 29 times on the JLPGA between 1979 and 1995. She was the leading money winner on JLPGA in ...
*1994
Ikuyo Shiotani
is a professional golfer. Inspired by Hisako Higuchi to begin playing golf, Shiotani joined a golf driving range and passed the professional exam in 1983. She joined the 43th class of the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan (LPGA ...
*1993
Fuki Kido
*1992
Ikuyo Shiotani
is a professional golfer. Inspired by Hisako Higuchi to begin playing golf, Shiotani joined a golf driving range and passed the professional exam in 1983. She joined the 43th class of the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan (LPGA ...
References
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{{LPGA of Japan Tour
LPGA of Japan Tour events
Golf tournaments in Japan
Sport in Kumamoto Prefecture
Recurring sporting events established in 1992
1992 establishments in Japan