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Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open

Tournament information
Location	Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan
Established	1972
Course(s)	Ibaraki Golf Club
Par	71
Length	7,049 yards (6,446 m)
Tour(s)	Asia Golf Circuit Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥100,000,000
Month played	April
Final year	2001
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Kuo Chie-Hsiung (1978)
To par	−23 as above
Final champion
Shingo Katayama
Location map
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The Kirin Open was a golf tournament in Japan. It was founded in 1972 as the season ending event on the Asia Golf Circuit, replacing the Yomiuri International which had been cancelled when sponsors decided to discontinue the event. It was also a fixture on the Japan Golf Tour from 1974 until 2001.

It was played at Sobu Country Club in Inzai until 1976. In 1977 Dunlop became title sponsors and the tournament was moved to Ibaraki Golf Club in Ibaraki.

Winners

Year	Tour(s)	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Kirin Open
2001	JPN	Shingo Katayama (2)	271	−13	6 strokes	Hajime Meshiai
2000	JPN	Shingo Katayama	280	−4	2 strokes	Lin Keng-chi Peter Senior Andre Stolz
Kirin Open
1999	AGC, JPN	K. J. Choi	204	−9	Playoff	Jeev Milkha Singh
1998	AGC, JPN	Frankie Miñoza (2)	279	−5	1 stroke	Hidemichi Tanaka Tsukasa Watanabe Brian Watts
1997	AGC, JPN	Kim Jong-duck	278	−10	2 strokes	Shigeki Maruyama Hirofumi Miyase Tateo Ozaki Brian Watts
1996	AGC, JPN	Yoshinori Kaneko	278	−10	1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima Nobuo Serizawa
Dunlop Open
1995	AGC, JPN	Peter Senior	279	−9	5 strokes	Brian Watts
1994	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki (4)	274	−14	1 stroke	Hsieh Chin-sheng
1993	AGC, JPN	Hajime Meshiai	275	−13	2 strokes	Katsunari Takahashi Kevin Wentworth
1992	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki (3)	286	−2	Playoff	Brent Franklin
1991	AGC, JPN	Roger Mackay	272	−16	2 strokes	Teruo Sugihara
1990	AGC, JPN	Frankie Miñoza	205	−11	Playoff	Teruo Sugihara
1989	AGC, JPN	Terry Gale	284	−4	1 stroke	Chen Tze-ming Peter Senior
1988	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki (2)	278	−10	3 strokes	David Ishii
Dunlop International Open
1987	AGC, JPN	Isao Aoki	277	−11	1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima Yoshitaka Yamamoto
1986	AGC, JPN	Hideto Shigenobu	281	−7	2 strokes	David Ishii Masahiro Kuramoto
1985	AGC, JPN	Chen Tze-chung	277	−11	1 stroke	Tsuneyuki Nakajima
1984	AGC, JPN	John Jacobs	283	−5	2 strokes	Tateo Ozaki
1983	AGC, JPN	Larry Nelson	201	−15	1 stroke	Masahiro Kuramoto
1982	AGC, JPN	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	276	−12	5 strokes	Saburo Fujiki
1981	AGC, JPN	Kosaku Shimada	286	−2	2 strokes	Payne Stewart Koichi Uehara Akira Yabe
1980	AGC, JPN	Masashi Ozaki	277	−11	5 strokes	Ho Ming-chung Graham Marsh
1979	AGC, JPN	Hiroshi Ishii	278	−10	3 strokes	Seiji Ebihara Tateo Ozaki Katsunari Takahashi
1978	AGC, JPN	Kuo Chie-Hsiung	265	−23	11 strokes	Bob Byman
1977	AGC, JPN	Ben Arda (2)	282	−6	2 strokes	Terry Kendall Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Sobu International Open
1976	AGC, JPN	Ben Arda	277	−11	4 strokes	Chen Chien-chung
1975	AGC, JPN	Teruo Sugihara	282	−6	2 strokes	Ted Ball Hsu Sheng-san Hideyo Sugimoto
1974	AGC, JPN	Lu Liang-Huan	280	−8	4 strokes	Masashi Ozaki Fumio Tanaka
1973	AGC	Shigeru Uchida	279	−9	Playoff	Masashi Ozaki
1972	AGC	Hsieh Min-Nan	279	−9	2 strokes	Ben Arda

Notes

1. AGC − Asia Golf Circuit; JPN − Japan Golf Tour.
2. ^ Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
3. Choi won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
4. Ozaki won on the first hole of a sudden death playoff.
5. Miñoza won with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden death playoff.
6. Uchida won with a 180-yard hole-out for eagle on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.

References

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