KSB Open

Georgia KSB Open

Tournament information
Location	Tamano, Okayama, Japan
Established	1981
Course(s)	Tojigaoka Marinehills Golf Club
Par	72
Length	6,947 yards (6,352 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥70,000,000
Month played	March
Final year	1999
Tournament record score
Aggregate	267 Carlos Franco (1998)
To par	−17 Rick Gibson (1995) −17 Carlos Franco (1998)
Final champion
Yoshinori Kaneko
Location map
Tojigaoka Marinehills GC Location in Japan Show map of Japan Tojigaoka Marinehills GC Location in the Okayama Prefecture Show map of Okayama Prefecture

The KSB Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan. Founded as the KSB Kagawa Open in 1981,^[1] it was an event on the Japan Golf Tour in 1983 and again from 1989. It was played until 1999, after which it was merged with the Descente Classic to create the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)	Host course	Location
1999	Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club	Tamano, Okayama
1998	Ayutaki Country Club	Takamatsu, Kagawa
1994–1997	Kinojo Golf Club	Sōja, Okayama
1990, 1992–1993	Sanyoh Golf Club Yoshii	Akaiwa, Okayama
1981, 1983–1984, 1987–1989, 1991	Shido Country Club	Sanuki, Kagawa

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up	Ref.
Georgia KSB Open
1999	Yoshinori Kaneko	275	−13	1 stroke	Frankie Miñoza
Just System KSB Open
1998	Carlos Franco	267	−17	4 strokes	Frankie Miñoza
1997	Keiichiro Fukabori	276	−12	2 strokes	Katsunori Kuwabara Toshiaki Odate
Novell KSB Open
1996	Toru Suzuki	275	−13	1 stroke	Eduardo Herrera Brian Watts
1995	Rick Gibson	271	−17	1 stroke	Toshimitsu Izawa Tsukasa Watanabe
United KSB Open
1994	Kazuhiro Takami	281	−7	6 strokes	Yoshinori Kaneko
TaylorMade KSB Open
1993	Tateo Ozaki	276	−12	1 stroke	Roger Mackay
1992	Seiki Okuda	210[a]	−6	4 strokes	Seiji Ebihara Satoshi Higashi
1991	Masanobu Kimura	273	−15	3 strokes	Nobuo Serizawa Teruo Sugihara
Seto Uthumi Open
1990	Masahiro Kuramoto (2)	295	+7	1 stroke	Ryoken Kawagishi Noboru Sugai
Setonaikai Open
1989	Naomichi Ozaki	282	−6	2 strokes	Kinpachi Yoshimura
TaylorMade Setonaikai Open
1988	Wayne Smith	213[a]	−3	1 stroke	Norio Mikami Kenji Mori	[2]
KSB Setonaikai Open
1987	Katsunari Takahashi	140	−4	2 strokes	Yurio Akitomi Mike Harwood Minoru Nakamura	[3]
1986	Minoru Nakamura					[4]
1985	Masahiro Kuramoto					[5]
1984	Shuichi Sano	136	−8	2 strokes	Shichiro Enomoto	[6]
1983	Kenji Sogame	140	−4	Playoff[b]	Haruo Yasuda	[7][1]
KSB Kagawa Open
1982	Shigeru Uchida					[8]
1981	Toshimitsu Kai	141		1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima Kosaku Shimada	[9]

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.
2. Sogame was awarded the title when Yasuda was unable to take part in the playoff having left the course and travelled to the airport believing he was out of contention.

References

1. Koga, Takayuki (20 June 2016). "【古賀敬之のゴルフあれこれ】 ゴルフにまつわる〝面白話〟第15弾 日本で唯一の〝幻のプレーオフ〟" [Takayuki Koga's golf this and that – 15th "interesting story" about golf: "The only phantom playoff in Japan"]. Golf 報知 [Golf Hochi] (in Japanese). Hochi Shimbun. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
2. McCormack, Mark H. (1989). World of Professional Golf 1989. Collins Willow. pp. 276, 501. ISBN 000218284X.
3. McCormack, Mark H. (1988). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1988. Collins Willow. pp. 252, 464. ISBN 0002182831.
4. "PGA member profile | Minoru Nakamura". PGA of Japan. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
5. "PGA member profile | Masahiro Kuramoto". PGA of Japan. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
6. McCormack, Mark H. (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 223, 443–444. ISBN 0862541247.
7. Muto, Kazuhiko (30 December 2020). "プレーオフ放棄事件 安田春雄が起こしたツアー初期の珍事／残したい記録" [Playoff abandonment case Haruo Yasuda's early tour rare / record to keep]. Golf Digest Online (in Japanese). Japan. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
8. "PGA member profile | Shigeru Uchida". PGA of Japan. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
9. McCormack, Mark H. (1982). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982. Springwood Books. p. 235. ISBN 0862541018.

External links

• Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site