The Japan PGA Match-Play Championship was a professional match play golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1975 to 2003. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour and held at a number of different courses throughout Japan.

Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location
1994–2003 Nidom Classic Course Tomakomai, Hokkaido
1993 Higashinomiya Country Club Motegi, Tochigi
1992 Prestige Country Club Tochigi, Tochigi
1991 Shinyo Country Club Toki, Gifu
1988–1990 Green Academy Club Shirakawa, Fukushima
1983–1987 Mito Golf Club Mito, Ibaraki
1975–1982 Totsuka Country Club (West) Yokohama, Kanagawa

Winners

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


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_PGA_Match-Play_Championship_Unisys_Cup
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