Okinawa Open

Asia Japan Okinawa Open

Tournament information
Location	Yaese, Okinawa, Japan
Established	2002
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour Asian Tour
Format	Stroke play
Final year	2005
Tournament record score
Aggregate	270 Kiyoshi Miyazato (2004)
To par	−14 as above
Final champion
Tadahiro Takayama

The Asia Japan Okinawa Open was a men's professional golf tournament that was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. It was played each December from 2002 to 2005 and counted as the first official money event of the following season for both tours, that is for example the 2005 event was part of the 2006 season. The prize fund was US$830,000 each of the first two years.

Tournament hosts[]

Winners[]

Year	Tours[a][b]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Asia Japan Okinawa Open
2005	JPN, ASA	Tadahiro Takayama	276	−8	Playoff	Kiyoshi Miyazato
2004	JPN, ASA	Kiyoshi Miyazato	270	−14	1 stroke	Hideki Kase Masahiro Kuramoto Mamo Osanai Jeev Milkha Singh Charlie Wi
2003	JPN, ASA	Hideto Tanihara	279	−9	3 strokes	Hiroshi Gohda Yūsaku Miyazato Charlie Wi Simon Yates Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
2002	JPN, ASA	Hiroyuki Fujita	202	−14	3 strokes	Yūsaku Miyazato Ted Purdy

Earlier tournament[]

An earlier Okinawa Open was played at Awase Meadows golf course from 1961 until 1972.^[1]

• 1972 Chen Chien-chin
• 1971
• 1970
• 1969
• 1968 Frank Kadota
• 1967 Chen Chien-chin
• 1966 Hsu Sheng-san
• 1965 Bick Long
• 1964 Finegan Higa
• 1963 Kuo Chie Hsiung
• 1962 Kuo Chie Hsiung
• 1961 Horace Meredith

References[]

External links[]

• Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site (2003–2006)

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