Ube Kosan Open
Professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001
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The Ube Kosan Open was a professional golf 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 Japan Golf Tour.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Established | 1972 |
| Course | Ube 72 Country Club |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,859 yards (6,272 m) |
| Tour | Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | ¥140,000,000 |
| Month played | November |
| Final year | 2001 |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 264 Shigeki Maruyama (1993) 264 Hidemichi Tanaka (1996) |
| To par | −21 Dean Wilson (2001) |
| Final champion | |
 Dean Wilson | |
| Location map | |
  Ube 72 CC Location in Japan  Ube 72 CC Location in the Yamaguchi Prefecture | |
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 Graham Marsh, Brian Jones and Shozo Miyamoto.[1] This record still stands[when?].
Tournament hosts
Winners
Notes
- Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
- Yokoyama won with a bogey on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
- Shortened to 45 holes due to rain.
- Chen won with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
- Thomson won the sudden-death playoff at the 14th extra hole; Miyamoto was eliminated at the first extra hole, and Jones at the fourth.
- Marsh won with a birdie on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff.
