Japan Golf Tour Championship
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The is an annual major golf
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...

. Its main sponsor is Citibank
Citibank
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. It was founded in 2000. It has been played at Shishido Hills Country Club since 2003. From 2000 to 2002, it was played at Horai Country Club.

Winners

Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills
  • 2011 Park Jae-bum
    Park Jae-bum
    Park Jae-bum is a South Korean professional golfer.Park has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2010. He won his first event at the 2011 Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills.-Japan Golf Tour wins :...

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  • 2010 Katsumasa Miyamoto
    Katsumasa Miyamoto
    Katsumasa Miyamoto is a Japanese professional golfer.Miyamoto was born in Shizuoka Prefecture. After turning professional, he joined the Japan Golf Tour, where he has won eight times. He won his first event in 1998, adding another later that year...

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UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills
  • 2009 Yuji Igarashi
    Yuji Igarashi
    Yugi Igarashi is a Japanese professional golfer.Igarashi was born in Saitama Prefecture. He currently plays on the Japan Golf Tour where he has won once in 2009 at the UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills.-External links:...

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  • 2008 Hidemasa Hoshino
    Hidemasa Hoshino
    is a Japanse golfer.Hoshino was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. He has won three times on the Japan Golf Tour. He has featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings.-Japan Golf Tour wins :*2003 The Crowns*2006 Coca-Cola Tokai Classic...

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  • 2007 Shingo Katayama
    Shingo Katayama
    Shingo Katayama is a Japanese golfer.Katayama was born in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. He turned professional in 1995 and has played full time on the Japan Golf Tour since 1997. He topped the Japan Golf Tour money list five times: 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008...

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  • 2006 Tatsuhiko Takahashi
    Tatsuhiko Takahashi
    is a Japanese professional golfer.Takahashi plays on the Japan Golf Tour, and has won twice.-Japan Golf Tour wins:*2005 Aiful Cup*2006 UBS Japan Golf Tour Championship ShishidoHills-Other wins:...

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Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup
  • 2005 Kazuhiko Hosokawa
    Kazuhiko Hosokawa
    Kazuhiko Hosokawa is a Japanese professional golfer.Hosokawa has won eight tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings.-Japan Golf Tour wins :*1995 Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta...

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  • 2004 SK Ho
    SK Ho
    Hur Suk-ho , who is usually known as SK Ho in English, is a South Korean professional golfer who plays mainly on the Japan Golf Tour....

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  • 2003 Toshimitsu Izawa
    Toshimitsu Izawa
    Toshimitsu Izawa is a Japanese professional golfer. He is sometimes known outside of Japan as Toshi Izawa.Izawa was born in Kanagawa, attended Nihon Taiiku University, and turned professional in 1989....

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Japan Golf Tour Championship iiyama Cup
  • 2002 Nobuhito Sato
    Nobuhito Sato
    Nobuhito Sato is a Japanese professional golfer.Sato was born in Chiba Prefecture. He turned professional in 1993.Sato has won nine tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings. His most successful years came in 2000 when he won four times and...

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  • 2001 Katsumasa Miyamoto
    Katsumasa Miyamoto
    Katsumasa Miyamoto is a Japanese professional golfer.Miyamoto was born in Shizuoka Prefecture. After turning professional, he joined the Japan Golf Tour, where he has won eight times. He won his first event in 1998, adding another later that year...

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JGTO TPC iiyama Cup
  • 2000 Toshimitsu Izawa
    Toshimitsu Izawa
    Toshimitsu Izawa is a Japanese professional golfer. He is sometimes known outside of Japan as Toshi Izawa.Izawa was born in Kanagawa, attended Nihon Taiiku University, and turned professional in 1989....

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JGT major golf championships

  • Japan PGA Championship
    Japan PGA Championship
    The is an annual golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. It has been played since 1926. It is played at a variety of courses throughout Japan. The purse for the 2011 event was ¥150,000,000, with ¥30,000,000 going to the winner...

  • Japan Golf Tour Championship
  • Japan Open Golf Championship
    Japan Open Golf Championship
    The is Japan's national open golf championship. As of 2011, it is one of the three richest tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, with a prize fund of ¥200 million...

  • Golf Nippon Series JT Cup
    Golf Nippon Series JT Cup
    The is an annual event on the Japan Golf Tour. It has been played since 1963. It has been played since at least 1985 at the Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club. The purse for the 2011 event was ¥130,000,000, with ¥40,000,000 going to the winner. It has recently been one of the last events of the season...


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