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The Ube Kosan Open was a professional
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tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near Ube, Yamaguchi. It was an event on the
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. In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat
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and Shozo Miyamoto. This record still stands today.


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Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site
Former Japan Golf Tour events Defunct golf tournaments in Japan Sport in Yamaguchi Prefecture Recurring sporting events established in 1972 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2001 1973 establishments in Japan 2001 disestablishments in Japan Long stubs with short prose {{golf-tournament-stub