# Mizuno Open

The Mizuno Open (ミズノオープン, Mizuno ōpun) is a professional golf tournament played in Japan. Founded in 1971, it has been a Japan Golf Tour event since 1979. Since 1998, the event has been prefixed Gateway to The Open (全英への道, Zen'ei eno michi), with the top finishers gaining exemptions into The Open Championship.
The Mizuno Open has been held at several courses, most recently at Setonaikai Golf Club in Kasaoka, Okayama in 2021.
The purse for the 2021 event was ¥80,000,000, with ¥16,000,000 going to the winner.

## History

The Mizuno Open was founded in 1971 as the Mizuno Tournament with both men's and women's events running side-by-side. It was restricted to golfers using at least ten Mizuno clubs. In 1979, fifty leading professionals in Japan were also eligible to compete as the tournament counted towards the Japan Golf Tour money-list ranking for the first time. In 1983 it became a full tour event and in 1985 changed its name to the Mizuno Open. From 1991, the women's event was played separately.
Since 1998, the event has been prefixed "Gateway to The Open", with the top four finishers in the tournament that were not already qualified gaining exemptions into The Open Championship. There has also been a mini-money list of Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the Mizuno Open that earns two exemptions into The Open. From 2007 to 2010 The Mizuno Open merged with the Yomiuri Open to form the Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic.

## Tournament hosts

| Years | Venue | Location |
| 1998–2006, 2011–2017, 2021 | Setonaikai Golf Club | Kasaoka, Okayama |
| 2018–2019 | The Royal Golf Club | Hokota, Ibaraki |
| 2007–2010 | Yomiuri Country Club | Nishinomiya, Hyōgo |
| 1976–1997 | Tokinodai Country Club | Hakui, Ishikawa |
| 1971–1975 | Anegasaki Country Club | Ichihara, Chiba |

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | To Par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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| 2024 | Ryosuke Kinoshita | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Koh Gun-taek |
| 2023 | Kensei Hirata | 271 | −17 | Playoff | Keita Nakajima |
| 2022 | Scott Vincent | 276 | −12 | Playoff | Anthony Quayle |
| 2021 | Juvic Pagunsan | 199 | −17 | 3 strokes | Ryutaro Nagano |
| 2020 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2019 | Yuta Ikeda | 281 | −7 | 1 stroke | Chan Kim |
| 2018 | Shota Akiyoshi | 287 | −1 | 1 stroke | Michael Hendry Masahiro Kawamura Masanori Kobayashi |
| 2017 | Chan Kim | 273 | −15 | 5 strokes | Michael Hendry |
| 2016 | Kim Kyung-tae | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Kodai Ichihara Shugo Imahira Lee Sang-hee |
| 2015 | Taichi Teshima | 273 | −15 | 2 strokes | Scott Strange |
| 2014 | Jang Dong-kyu | 273 | −15 | 3 strokes | Juvic Pagunsan |
| 2013 | Brendan Jones (2) | 269 | −19 | 3 strokes | Kim Kyung-tae |
| 2012 | Brad Kennedy | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | Toshinori Muto Toru Taniguchi |
| 2011 | Hwang Jung-gon | 275 | −13 | 1 stroke | Kim Kyung-tae |
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| 2010 | Shunsuke Sonoda | 201 | −15 | 3 strokes | Toru Taniguchi |
| 2009 | Ryo Ishikawa | 275 | −13 | 3 strokes | David Smail |
| 2008 | Prayad Marksaeng | 269 | −15 | 1 stroke | Azuma Yano |
| 2007 | Lee Dong-hwan | 204 | −12 | 4 strokes | Lee Seong-ho Lin Keng-chi Toshinori Muto Achi Sato Hideto Tanihara Masaya Tomida |
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| 2006 | Hur Suk-ho | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | Tatsuhiko Ichihara David Smail |
| 2005 | Chris Campbell | 278 | −10 | Playoff | David Smail Tadahiro Takayama |
| 2004 | Brendan Jones | 274 | −14 | Playoff | Hiroaki Iijima |
| 2003 | Todd Hamilton | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Brendan Jones |
| 2002 | Dean Wilson | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Kiyoshi Miyazato |
| 2001 | Hidemichi Tanaka | 272 | −16 | 3 strokes | Eduardo Herrera |
| 2000 | Yasuharu Imano | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Toshimitsu Izawa Katsumasa Miyamoto |
| 1999 | Eduardo Herrera | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Tsukasa Watanabe |
| 1998 | Brandt Jobe | 275 | −13 | 4 strokes | Yoshi Mizumaki Toru Suzuki |
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| 1997 | Brian Watts (3) | 278 | −10 | 2 strokes | Toshimitsu Izawa |
| 1996 | Yoshinori Kaneko | 270 | −18 | 4 strokes | Shinichi Yokota |
| 1995 | Brian Watts (2) | 273 | −15 | 3 strokes | Rick Gibson |
| 1994 | Brian Watts | 280 | −8 | Playoff | Eduardo Herrera Yoshinori Kaneko Koichi Suzuki |
| 1993 | Seiki Okuda | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Wayne Grady Tateo Ozaki Teruo Sugihara |
| 1992 | Tōru Nakamura | 282 | −6 | 1 stroke | Saburo Fujiki Brian Jones |
| 1991 | Roger Mackay | 207 | −9 | Playoff | Satoshi Higashi |
| 1990 | Brian Jones | 272 | −16 | 4 strokes | Tsuneyuki Nakajima |
| 1989 | Akiyoshi Ohmachi | 283 | −5 | 2 strokes | Brian Jones Fujio Kobayashi Masahiro Kuramoto Tsuneyuki Nakajima |
| 1988 | Yoshimi Niizeki | 280 | −8 | Playoff | Seiichi Kanai |
| 1987 | David Ishii | 272 | −16 | 8 strokes | Chen Tze-ming Tōru Nakamura |
| 1986 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | 239 | −11 | 6 strokes | Tsukasa Watanabe |
| 1985 | Tateo Ozaki Katsunari Takahashi | 205 | −11 | Title shared | Title shared |
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| 1984 | Kikuo Arai (2) | 279 | −9 | 1 stroke | Naomichi Ozaki |
| 1983 | Eitaro Deguchi | 277 | −11 | 3 strokes | Hsieh Min-Nan Tsuneyuki Nakajima Shigeru Uchida |
| 1982 | Teruo Sugihara | 282 | −6 | | |
| 1981 | Kikuo Arai | 274 | −12 | 2 strokes | Shigeru Uchida |
| 1980 | Norio Suzuki | 266 | −20 | 6 strokes | Yoshikazu Yokoshima |
| 1979 | Mitsuhiro Kitta | 272 | −16 | 2 strokes | Teruo Sugihara Ichiro Teramoto |
| 1978 | Akio Kanemoto | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Shigeru Uchida |
| 1977 | Masaji Kusakabe (2) | 283 | −5 | Playoff | Shigeru Uchida |
| 1976 | Masaji Kusakabe | 215 | −6 | 2 strokes | Han Chang-sang Shigeru Uchida Takemitsu Uranishi Yuki Watanabe |
| 1975 | Shigeru Uchida (2) | 215 | −1 | 3 strokes | Takashi Aoki |
| 1974 | Shigeru Uchida | 210 | −6 | 1 stroke | Shichiro Enomoto |
| 1973 | Shichiro Enomoto | 208 | −8 | 3 strokes | Akio Kanemoto |
| 1972 | Kazuo Yoshikawa | | | | |
| 1971 | Makoto Yamaguchi | 214 | −2 | 2 strokes | Shichiro Enomoto |
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