# KBC Augusta

The KBC Augusta is a professional golf tournament that is held in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The title sponsor is the Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting and it is held in August. Since its foundation in 1973, it has been an event on the Japan Golf Tour.
Since 1992, the KBC Augusta has been played at Keya Golf Club near Itoshima. Before then it was played at Fukuoka Country Club (Wajiro Course) near Fukuoka until 1982 and then at Kyushu Shima Country Club near Itoshima between 1983 and 1991. The tournament scoring records are 262 (aggregate) and −26 (to par) set by Kazuki Higa in 2019.
The 2021 purse was ¥100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.

## Tournament hosts

| Year(s) | Host course | Location |
| 1992–present | Keya Golf Club | Itoshima, Fukuoka |
| 1983–1991 | Kyushu Shima Country Club | Itoshima, Fukuoka |
| 1973–1982 | Fukuoka Country Club (Wajiro Course) | Fukuoka, Fukuoka |

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | To Par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
| Sansan KBC Augusta |||||||
| 2024 | Jinichiro Kozuma | 269 | −19 | Playoff | Yuwa Kosaihira |
| 2023 | Song Young-han | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | Ryutaro Nagano |
| 2022 | Riki Kawamoto | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Lee Sang-hee |
| 2021 | Scott Vincent | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | Ryo Ishikawa |
| RIZAP KBC Augusta |||||||
| 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 | Kazuki Higa | 262 | −26 | 5 strokes | Rikuya Hoshino |
| 2018 | Daijiro Izumida | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Choi Ho-sung |
| 2017 | Yuta Ikeda (3) | 270 | −18 | 3 strokes | Kunihiro Kamii |
| 2016 | Ryo Ishikawa | 273 | −15 | 5 strokes | Michael Hendry Brad Kennedy Tadahiro Takayama |
| 2015 | Yuta Ikeda (2) | 268 | −20 | 5 strokes | Koumei Oda |
| RZ Everlasting KBC Augusta |||||||
| 2014 | Hiroyuki Fujita | 276 | −12 | Playoff | Liang Wenchong |
| Vana H Cup KBC Augusta |||||||
| 2013 | Park Sung-joon | 204 | −12 | 2 strokes | Hwang Jung-gon |
| 2012 | Kim Hyung-sung | 270 | −22 | 1 stroke | Akio Sadakata |
| 2011 | Bae Sang-moon | 266 | −22 | 2 strokes | Ryo Ishikawa Tomohiro Kondo |
| 2010 | Hideto Tanihara | 266 | −22 | 1 stroke | Mitsuhiro Tateyama |
| 2009 | Yuta Ikeda | 267 | −21 | Playoff | Yasuharu Imano |
| 2008 | Shintaro Kai | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Hidemasa Hoshino |
| KBC Augusta |||||||
| 2007 | Katsumasa Miyamoto | 269 | −15 | 1 stroke | Steven Conran Koumei Oda |
| Under Armour KBC Augusta |||||||
| 2006 | Taichi Teshima | 268 | −16 | 1 stroke | Tetsuji Hiratsuka |
| 2005 | Toshimitsu Izawa (2) | 264 | −20 | 5 strokes | Prayad Marksaeng Ryuichi Oda |
| Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta |||||||
| 2004 | Steven Conran | 277 | −7 | 1 stroke | Takashi Kamiyama Toru Taniguchi |
| 2003 | Soushi Tajima | 269 | −19 | 4 strokes | Dinesh Chand Hisayuki Sasaki |
| 2002 | Nobumitsu Yuhara | 209 | −7 | 1 stroke | Shigemasa Higaki Katsunori Kuwabara Toshimasa Nakajima Christian Peña Zhang Lianwei |
| 2001 | Takenori Hiraishi | 273 | −15 | Playoff | Shigemasa Higaki Hideki Kase |
| 2000 | Toshimitsu Izawa | 270 | −18 | 4 strokes | Shusaku Sugimoto |
| 1999 | Tsuyoshi Yoneyama | 205 | −11 | 1 stroke | Takao Nogami |
| 1998 | Masashi Ozaki (4) | 275 | −13 | 4 strokes | Katsunori Kuwabara |
| 1997 | Masashi Ozaki (3) | 266 | −22 | 12 strokes | Takaaki Fukuzawa Taichi Teshima |
| 1996 | Masashi Ozaki (2) | 273 | −15 | Playoff | Taichi Teshima |
| 1995 | Kazuhiko Hosokawa | 271 | −17 | 1 stroke | Todd Hamilton Tomohiro Maruyama |
| 1994 | Brian Watts | 271 | −17 | 2 strokes | Masashi Ozaki |
| Daiwa KBC Augusta |||||||
| 1993 | Chen Tze-chung | 277 | −11 | Playoff | Lin Chie-hsiang |
| 1992 | Chen Tze-ming (2) | 276 | −12 | Playoff | Bradley Hughes Norikazu Kawakami |
| 1991 | Raymond Floyd | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Frankie Miñoza |
| 1990 | Masashi Ozaki | 269 | −19 | 10 strokes | Chen Tze-chung |
| 1989 | Teruo Sugihara | 281 | −7 | 2 strokes | Graham Marsh |
| KBC Augusta |||||||
| 1988 | Masahiro Kuramoto | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Hajime Meshiai Masashi Ozaki Nobumitsu Yuhara |
| 1987 | Saburo Fujiki (2) | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | Tateo Ozaki |
| 1986 | Isao Aoki (3) | 282 | −6 | 1 stroke | Masahiro Kuramoto Masashi Ozaki |
| 1985 | Hajime Meshiai | 206 | −10 | 1 stroke | Isao Aoki Eitaro Deguchi Masashi Ozaki Satsuki Takahashi Fuzzy Zoeller |
| 1984 | Naomichi Ozaki | 275 | −13 | 1 stroke | Kouichi Inoue Tsuneyuki Nakajima |
| 1983 | Saburo Fujiki | 273 | −15 | 3 strokes | Masashi Ozaki |
| 1982 | Chen Tze-ming | 209 | −7 | 1 stroke | Hal Sutton |
| 1981 | Hsieh Min-Nan | 279 | −9 | Playoff | Chen Tze-chung Nobumitsu Yuhara |
| 1980 | Isao Aoki (2) | 137 | −7 | 2 strokes | Hiroshi Tahara |
| 1979 | Masaji Kusakabe | 240 | −12 | 3 strokes | Kuo Chie-Hsiung |
| 1978 | Kenichi Yamada | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Isao Aoki Shiro Kubo Gene Littler Yasuhiro Miyamoto |
| 1977 | Brian Jones | 278 | −10 | Playoff | Akira Yabe |
| 1976 | Graham Marsh | 207 | −9 | Playoff | Haruo Yasuda |
| 1975 | Shinsaku Maeda | 278 | −10 | Playoff | Hiroshi Ishii |
| 1974 | Tōru Nakamura | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Teruo Sugihara |
| 1973 | Isao Aoki | 266 | −22 | 13 strokes | Yasuhiro Miyamoto |