Asahi-Ryokuken Yomiuri Memorial
Encyclopedia
The Asahi-Ryokuken Yomiuri Memorial was a golf
tournament on the Japan Golf Tour
from 2004 to 2006. It was played in November at the Asoiizuka Golf Club in Fukuoka
. The purse for the 2006 event was ¥
100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the Japan Golf Tour
Japan Golf Tour
The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour. However since the early 1990s, the growth in prize money has not kept pace with...
from 2004 to 2006. It was played in November at the Asoiizuka Golf Club in Fukuoka
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka.- History :Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen....
. The purse for the 2006 event was ¥
Japanese yen
The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro and the pound sterling...
100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.
External links
- Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site - in English