Bridgestone Open Tournament on Japan Tour
First played: 1972
Last played: 2021
Three golfers share the tournament record of three wins in this event. Massy Kuramoto's third was in 1992, Shigeki Maruyama won his third in 1999, and Toru Taniguchi's third Bridgestone Open win happened in 2012. Mark Calcavecchia had a different sort of achievement: He did not win this event, but he finished second three consecutive years (1993-95).
Hale Irwin had one victory in Japan during his Hall of Fame career, and it was in the Bridgestone Open in 1981. His 8-stroke margin of victory over fellow American Bill Rogers was the tournament record. Lanny Wadkins, winner in 1979, also achieved his only Japan Tour victory in this tournament.
The tournament scoring record of 265 was established in 2010 by Yuta Ikeda, and matched in the tournament's final year of 2021 by Tomoyasu Sugiyama.
Winners of the Japan Tour Bridgestone Open
1972 — Hsieh Min-Nan, 2761973 — Hiroshi Ishii, 275
1974 — Graham Marsh, 278
1975 — Yoshitaka Yamamoto, 283
1976 — Takashi Murakami, 282 (def. Hsieh Min-Nan and Masaji Kusakabe in playoff)
1977 — Fujio Kobayashi, 278
1978 — Hiroshi Ishii, 280
1979 — Lanny Wadkins, 277
1980 — Bob Gilder, 283
1981 — Hale Irwin, 275
1982 — Hsieh Min-Nan, 279 (def. Kikuo Arai in playoff)
1983 — Eitaro Deguchi, 274
1984 — Massy Kuramoto, 279 (def. T.C. Chen, Yoshihisa Iwashita and Sam Torrance in playoff)
1985 — Massy Kuramoto, 273
1986 — Tateo "Jet" Ozaki, 276
1987 — David Ishii, 282 (def. Hiroshi Makino and Nobuo Serizawa in playoff)
1988 — Jumbo Ozaki, 273
1989 — Roger Mackay, 277
1990 — Saburo Fujiki, 274 (def. Akihito Yokoyama in playoff)
1991 — Isao Aoki, 134 (36 holes due to weather)
1992 — Massy Kuramoto, 271 (def. Tetsu Nishikawa in playoff)
1993 — Ikuo Shirahama, 271
1994 — Brian Watts, 274
1995 — Shigeki Maruyama, 274
1996 — Shigeki Maruyama, 272
1997 — Jumbo Ozaki, 273
1998 — Nobuhito Sato, 275 (def. Tateo "Jet" Ozaki in playoff)
1999 — Shigeki Maruyama, 268
2000 — Nobuhito Sato, 272
2001 — Toshimitsu Izawa, 274
2002 — Scott Laycock, 272
2003 — Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki, 267 (def. Paul Sheehan in playoff)
2004 — Toru Taniguchi, 272
2005 — David Smail, 272
2006 — Taichi Teshima, 266
2007 — Shingo Katayama, 270
2008 — Azuma Yano, 267
2009 — Yuta Ikeda, 270
2010 — Yuta Ikeda, 265
2011 — Toru Taniguchi, 269
2012 — Toru Taniguchi, 272
2013 — Daisuke Maruyama, 203 (54 holes due to weather)
2014 — Koumei Oda, 269
2015 — Michio Matsumura, 275
2016 — Satoshi Kodaira, 270
2017 — Ryuko Tokimatsu, 133 (36 holes due to weather)
2018 — Shugo Imahira, 268
2019 — Shugo Imahira, 131 (36 holes due to weather)
2020 — Not played
2021 — Tomoyasu Sugiyama, 265
Golf courses: The tournament was played at Mitsukaido Golf Club in Ibaraki Prefecture when it debuted as the "Bridgestone Tournament" in 1972. (It was named "Bridgestone Tournament" through 1984). In 1973 it moved to Yomiuri Country Club in Tokyo. In 1974 it moved again, to Sodegaura Country Club in Chiba, Japan, and it was played there every year until the end in 2021.