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1981 PGA of Japan Tour
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Golf tour season
September 2023
1981 PGA of Japan Tour 1981 3 19 y – 1981 12 6 y 42 JPN 1870 Masahiro Kuramoto (4) Money list JPN 1870 Isao Aoki 1980 1982
The 1981 PGA of Japan Tour was the ninth season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 1981 season.https://www.jgto.org/en/tournament?&tourna_kbn_id=1&year=1981 1981 Tour Tournaments Japan Golf Tour Organization 25 June 2023Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982 Mark H. McCormack Mark McCormack Springwood Books 1982 235–252, 448–490 0862541018 https://archive.org/details/isbn_0498025942 Archive.org 8 November 2023 limited
Date Tournament Location Purse(¥) Winnertotals The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of PGA of Japan Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for PGA of Japan Tour members. Othertourstour AGC − Asia Golf Circuit. Notes 22 Mar Shizuoka Open Shizuoka 32,000,000 JPN 1870 Isao Aoki (30) 5 Apr Aso National Park Open Kumamoto 15,000,000 JPN 1870 Saburo Fujiki (1) 19 Apr Kuzuha Kokusai Tournament Osaka 15,000,000 JPN 1870 Kosaku Shimada (8) 26 Apr Dunlop International Open Ibaraki 30,000,000 JPN 1870 Kosaku Shimada (9) AGC 3 May Chunichi Crowns Aichi 65,000,000 AUS Graham Marsh (12) 10 May Fujisankei Classic Shizuoka 40,000,000 JPN 1870 Toshiharu Kawada (1) 17 May Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Kanagawa 40,000,000 JPN 1870 Isao Aoki (31) 24 May Yomiuri Open Hyōgo 30,000,000 JPN 1870 Namio Takasu (2) 31 May Mitsubishi Galant Tournament Tochigi 35,000,000 TWN Lu Hsi-chuen (1) 7 Jun Tohoku Classic Miyagi 30,000,000 JPN 1870 Teruo Sugihara (15) 14 Jun Sapporo Tokyu Open Hokkaidō 30,000,000 TWN Chen Tze-chung (1) 21 Jun Pepsi-Wilson Tournament Yamaguchi 25,000,000 AUS Graham Marsh (13) 2 Jul Naganoken Open Nagano 17,000,000 JPN 1870 Fujio Kobayashi (3)JPN 1870 Masaji Kusakabe (7) Title sharedNew to PGA of Japan Tour 5 Jul JPGA East-West Tournament Mie 12,000,000 JPN 1870 Shinsaku Maeda (5) 12 Jul Gunmaken Open Gunma 6,000,000 JPN 1870 Satsuki Takahashi (1) New to PGA of Japan Tour 19 Jul Descente Cup Hokkoku Open Ishikawa 25,000,000 JPN 1870 Saburo Fujiki (2) 26 Jul Niigata Open Niigata 15,000,000 JPN 1870 Takahiro Takeyasu (1) New to PGA of Japan Tour 2 Aug Japan PGA Championship Hokkaidō 32,000,000 JPN 1870 Isao Aoki (32) 9 Aug Mizuno Tournament Ishikawa 22,000,000 JPN 1870 Kikuo Arai (1) 16 Aug Nihon Kokudo Keikaku Summers Chiba 33,000,000 JPN 1870 Masahiro Kuramoto (2) 23 Aug Kanto Pro Championship Shizuoka 20,000,000 JPN 1870 Seiichi Kanai (3) 23 Aug Kansai Pro Championship Hiroshima 13,000,000 JPN 1870 Norio Suzuki (14) 30 Aug KBC Augusta Fukuoka 32,000,000 TWN Hsieh Min-Nan (6) 5 Sep Chushikoku Open Shimane 5,000,000 JPN 1870 Masahiro Kuramoto (3) 6 Sep Chubu Open Aichi 12,000,000 JPN 1870 Shigeru Uchida (3) 6 Sep Kyusyu Open Fukuoka 8,000,000 JPN 1870 Yurio Akitomi (3) 6 Sep Kanto Open Tochigi 20,000,000 JPN 1870 Nobumitsu Yuhara (1) 6 Sep Kansai Open Shiga 15,000,000 JPN 1870 Akio Kanemoto (3) 6 Sep Hokkaido Open Hokkaidō 4,000,000 JPN 1870 Mitsuyoshi Goto (1) 13 Sep Suntory Open Chiba 40,000,000 USA Bill Rogers (n/a) 20 Sep ANA Sapporo Open Hokkaidō 30,000,000 JPN 1870 Masahiro Kuramoto (4) 27 Sep Hiroshima Open Hiroshima 25,000,000 JPN 1870 Seiichi Kanai (4) 4 Oct Gene Sarazen Jun Classic Tochigi 45,000,000 JPN 1870 Nobumitsu Yuhara (2) 11 Oct Tokai Classic Aichi 35,000,000 JPN 1870 Masahiro Kuramoto (5) 18 Oct Golf Digest Tournament Shizuoka 30,000,000 JPN 1870 Toyotake Nakao (1) 25 Oct Bridgestone Tournament Chiba 50,000,000 USA Hale Irwin (n/a) 1 Nov Japan Open Golf Championship Gifu 47,000,000 JPN 1870 Yutaka Hagawa (1) 8 Nov ABC Cup Japan vs USA Hyōgo 36,000,000 USA Bobby Clampett (n/a) 15 Nov Toshiba Taiheiyo Masters Shizuoka 70,000,000 USA Danny Edwards (n/a) 22 Nov Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Miyazaki 80,000,000 ESP Seve Ballesteros (n/a) 29 Nov Casio World Open Kagoshima 60,000,000 USA Lee Trevino (n/a) New tournament 6 Dec Golf Nippon Series Tokyo 17,000,000 JPN 1870 Yutaka Hagawa (2)
Money list
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.https://www.jgto.org/en/stats/tour/money_ranking_all?year=1981 1981 Money Rankings Japan Golf Tour Organization 25 June 2023
Position Player Prize money (¥)1 JPN 1870 Isao Aoki 57,262,9412 JPN 1870 Masahiro Kuramoto 32,345,1303 JPN 1870 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 29,600,9604 JPN 1870 Tōru Nakamura 29,412,8525 JPN 1870 Nobumitsu Yuhara 26,534,162
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References
External links
https://www.jgto.org/en
Category:Japan Golf Tour seasons
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