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Bridgestone Aso Open
Tournament information
LocationAso, Kumamoto, Japan
Established1976
Course(s)Aso Golf Club
Par72
Length7,078 yards (6,472 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥70,000,000
Month playedApril
Final year1993
Tournament record score
Aggregate272 Craig Parry (1989)
To par−16 as above
Final champion
Japan Shigeru Kawamata
Location map
Aso GC is located in Japan
Aso GC
Aso GC
Location in Japan
Aso GC is located in Kumamoto Prefecture
Aso GC
Aso GC
Location in the Kumamoto Prefecture

The Bridgestone Aso Open was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour from 1978 to 1993. From 1983, it was played at the Aso Golf Club near Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture.

Originally contested over 36 holes as the Aso National Park Open, the tournament was extended to 54 holes in 1981,[1] and then 72 holes from 1982.

Tournament hosts

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Year(s) Host course Location
1981, 1983–1993 Aso Golf Club Aso, Kumamoto
1976–1980, 1982 Aso Kogen Hotel Golf Course Ubuyama, Kumamoto

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Ref.
Bridgestone Aso Open
1993 Japan Shigeru Kawamata 276 −12 2 strokes Japan Katsunari Takahashi
1992 Australia Peter Senior 281 −7 1 stroke Canada Rick Gibson
1991 Japan Kiyoshi Murota 208[a] −8 2 strokes Japan Taisei Inagaki
1990 Japan Teruo Sugihara 213[b] −3 2 strokes Japan Nobumitsu Yuhara
1989 Australia Craig Parry 272 −16 6 strokes Japan Yoshiyuki Isomura
1988 Australia Ian Baker-Finch 282 −6 1 stroke Japan Tadami Ueno
1987 Japan Norio Mikami 280 −8 4 strokes United States David Ishii
Japan Shuichi Sano
1986 Australia Brian Jones 240[c] −12 1 stroke Japan Nobumitsu Yuhara
1985 Taiwan Hsieh Min-Nan 280 −8 Playoff Japan Masahiro Kuramoto
1984 Japan Hideto Shigenobu 283 −5 Playoff Japan Katsuji Hasegawa
Japan Akira Yabe
1983 Japan Fujio Kobayashi 213 −3 Playoff Japan Tadami Ueno
1982 Japan Tōru Nakamura 283 −5 3 strokes Japan Shigeru Uchida
Aso National Park Open
1981 Japan Saburo Fujiki 213 −3 1 stroke Japan Yoshikazu Yokoshima [1]
1980 Japan Masaji Kusakabe 109[d] +1 1 stroke Japan Yurio Akitomi
Japan Namio Takasu		 [3]
1979 Japan Takashi Kurihara 149 +5 Playoff Japan Shinsaku Maeda
Japan Haruo Yasuda
1978 Japan Tadami Ueno 143 −1 Playoff Japan Tatsuo Fujima
Japan Teruo Suzumura
1977 Japan Yukio Noguchi 213 −3 2 strokes Japan Kikuo Arai
Japan Seiichi Kanai		 [4]
1976 Japan Norio Suzuki 138 −6 2 strokes Japan Tomomi Suzuki [5]

Notes

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  1. ^ Tournament reduced to 54 holes after the first round was cancelled due to heavy rain and thick fog.[2]
  2. ^ Tournament reduced to 54 holes after the first round was cancelled due to rain.
  3. ^ Tournament reduced to 63 holes after play was cancelled on the second day and 27 holes were played on the final day.
  4. ^ Tournament reduced to 27 holes after the final round was cut to 9 holes due to fog.

References

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  1. ^ a b McCormack, Mark H. (1982). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1982. Collins. pp. 235, 451. ISBN 0862541018.
  2. ^ "Aso Open rained off". The Straits Times. 20 April 1991. p. 31. Retrieved 1 February 2021 – via National Library Board (Singapore).
  3. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1981). Dunhill World of Professional Golf 1981. Collins. pp. 172, 374–375. ISBN 0862540054.
  4. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1978). The World of Professional Golf 1978. Angus & Robertson. pp. 198–199, 341. ISBN 0207958173.
  5. ^ McCormack, Mark H. (1977). The World of Professional Golf 1977. Collins. pp. 296, 525. ISBN 0002168790.
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