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Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
Tournament information
Location	Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan
Established	1992
Course(s)	Taiheiyo Club; (Ichihara Course)
Par	72
Length	6,796 yards (6,214 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥90,000,000
Month played	April
Final year	1999
Tournament record score
Aggregate	270 Peter Teravainen (1997)
To par	−17 Dinesh Chand (1998)
Final champion
	Masayuki Kawamura
Location map
	Taiheiyo Club Location in Japan Taiheiyo Club Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture

The Descente Classic was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1992 by sponsors Descente, it was renamed the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup in 1995 and played until 1999, after which it was merged with the KSB Open to create the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)	Host course	Location
1998–1999	Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course)	Ichihara, Chiba
1996–1997	Edosaki Country Club	Inashiki, Ibaraki
1993–1995	Century Miki Golf Club	Miki, Hyōgo
1992	Century Yokawa Golf Club	Miki, Hyōgo

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
1999	Masayuki Kawamura	205^[a]	−11	Playoff	Kazuhiko Hosokawa Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1998	Dinesh Chand	271	−17	2 strokes	Carlos Franco Hidemichi Tanaka
1997	Peter Teravainen	270	−14	2 strokes	Todd Hamilton
1996	Masanobu Kimura	273	−11	2 strokes	Hideyuki Sato
1995	Satoshi Higashi	282	−6	1 stroke	Katsuyoshi Tomori
Descente Classic
1994	Brian Watts	280	−8	3 strokes	Hisao Inoue Hideki Kase Frankie Miñoza Tsukasa Watanabe
1993	Tetsu Nishikawa	281	−7	2 strokes	Shigenori Mori Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1992	Yoshinori Kaneko	279	−9	2 strokes	Masanobu Kimura

Notes

^ Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

References

External links

Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site

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[1] Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

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