Japan PGA Match-Play Championship

Japan PGA Match Play Championship
Tournament information
Established	1975
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Match play
Prize fund	¥80 million
Month played	October
Final year	2003
Final champion
	Todd Hamilton

The Japan PGA Match-Play Championship was a Japan Golf Tour event from 1975 to 2003.

Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Runner-up	Country	Score
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship
2003	Todd Hamilton	United States	David Smail	New Zealand	3 & 2
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Promise Cup
2002	Nobuhito Sato	Japan	Tomohiro Kondo	Japan	5 & 4
2001	Dean Wilson	United States	Lin Keng-chi	Taiwan	2 & 1
2000	Kaname Yokoo	Japan	Toru Taniguchi	Japan	2 & 1
1999	Mamo Osanai	Japan	Toru Taniguchi	Japan	4 & 3
1998	Katsunori Kuwabara	Japan	Shinichi Yokota	Japan	38 holes
1997	Shigeki Maruyama	Japan	Peter Teravainen	United States	3 & 2
1996	Nobuo Serizawa	Japan	Brandt Jobe	United States	1 up
1995	Katsuyoshi Tomori	Japan	Shigeki Maruyama	Japan	2 & 1
1994	Todd Hamilton	United States	Ikuo Shirahama	Japan	8 & 7
1993	Yoshitaka Yamamoto	Japan	Koichi Suzuki	Japan	3 & 2
1992	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	Naomichi Ozaki	Japan	3 & 1
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Unisys Cup
1991	Satoshi Higashi	Japan	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	2 up
1990	Naomichi Ozaki	Japan	Brendan Jones	Australia	6 & 5
1989	Masashi Ozaki	Japan	Hiroshi Makino	Japan	3 & 2
1988	David Ishii	United States	Noboru Sugai	Japan	6 & 5
1987	Katsunari Takahashi	Japan	Masashi Ozaki	Japan	37 holes
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship
1986	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	Keiichi Kobayashi	Japan	6 & 5
1985	Katsunari Takahashi	Japan	Akira Yabe	Japan	2 & 1
1984	Tōru Nakamura	Japan	Kouichi Inoue	Japan	4 & 3
1983	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	Hideto Shigenobu	Japan	38 holes
1982	Isao Aoki	Japan	Yutaka Hagawa	Japan	4 & 2
1981	Isao Aoki	Japan	Katsuji Hasegawa	Japan	38 holes
1980	Haruo Yasuda	Japan	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	2 & 1
1979	Isao Aoki	Japan	Hsieh Min-Nan	Taiwan	1 up
1978	Isao Aoki	Japan	Takahiro Takeyasu	Japan	2 & 1
1977	Tadashi Kitta	Japan	Tōru Nakamura	Japan	1 up
1976	Kazuo Yoshikawa	Japan	Kikuo Arai	Japan	2 & 1
1975	Takashi Murakami	Japan	Namio Takasu	Japan	2 up