# Yomiuri Open

The Yomiuri Open was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1970 as the Wizard Tournament, a 36-hole invitational tournament, it was played at Hashimoto Country Club in Wakayama until 1979 when it moved to Yomiuri Country Club in Hyōgo. With the move, it also became a full 72-hole tour event, having been extended to 54 holes in 1976, and adopted its new name. It remained at Yomiuri every year except for 1996, when it was played at Wakasu Golf Links in Tokyo. In 2007 it merged with the Mizuno Open to form the Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic.

## Tournament hosts

| Year(s) | Host course | Location |
| 1979–1995, 1997–2006 | Yomiuri Country Club | Nishinomiya, Hyōgo |
| 1996 | Wakasu Golf Links | Kōtō, Tokyo |
| 1970–1978 | Hashimoto Country Club | Hashimoto, Wakayama |

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
| Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 2006 | Nobuhiro Masuda | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Yang Yong-eun |
| 2005 | Satoru Hirota | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | Shinichi Akiba Tetsuji Hiratsuka |
| 2004 | Dinesh Chand | 268 | −20 | 4 strokes | Tetsuji Hiratsuka Hur Suk-ho |
| 2003 | Hideto Tanihara | 200 | −16 | 3 strokes | Nobuhito Sato |
| Tamanoi Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 2002 | Toru Taniguchi | 270 | −18 | 2 strokes | Satoru Hirota Daisuke Maruyama |
| 2001 | Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa | 272 | −16 | Playoff | Toru Suzuki |
| 2000 | Yoshi Mizumaki | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | Hisayuki Sasaki |
| Super Mario Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 1999 | Kim Jong-duck | 270 | −18 | 3 strokes | Hajime Meshiai Hidemichi Tanaka |
| Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 1998 | Brian Watts | 134 | −10 | 1 stroke | Kaname Yokoo |
| 1997 | Shigeki Maruyama | 267 | −17 | 2 strokes | Naomichi Ozaki |
| Pocari Sweat Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 1996 | Kazuhiro Fukunaga | 266 | −18 | Playoff | Todd Hamilton |
| 1995 | Eduardo Herrera | 272 | −12 | 1 stroke | Hiroyuki Fujita |
| Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 1994 | Tsukasa Watanabe | 270 | −14 | 2 strokes | Anthony Gilligan |
| Yomiuri Sapporo Beer Open |||||||
| 1993 | Katsuji Hasegawa | 203 | −13 | Playoff | Hajime Meshiai |
| 1992 | David Ishii | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Brian Jones |
| 1991 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2) | 272 | −16 | 3 strokes | Rick Gibson |
| 1990 | Saburo Fujiki (2) | 205 | −11 | 1 stroke | Taisei Inagaki |
| 1989 | Hajime Meshiai | 205 | −11 | 2 strokes | Naomichi Ozaki |
| 1988 | Masahiro Kuramoto | 277 | −11 | 4 strokes | Ian Baker-Finch Tsukasa Watanabe Yoshikazu Yokoshima |
| 1987 | Satoshi Higashi | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Graham Marsh Hajime Meshiai |
| 1986 | Koichi Suzuki | 273 | −19 | 2 strokes | Brian Jones |
| 1985 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | 275 | −17 | 3 strokes | Katsuji Hasegawa |
| Yomiuri Open |||||||
| 1984 | Saburo Fujiki | 281 | −11 | 4 strokes | Shinsaku Maeda |
| 1983 | Graham Marsh (4) | 280 | −12 | Playoff | Tōru Nakamura |
| 1982 | Terry Gale | 276 | −16 | 3 strokes | Masahiro Kuramoto Tsuneyuki Nakajima Namio Takasu Nobumitsu Yuhara |
| 1981 | Namio Takasu | 285 | −7 | Playoff | Hsieh Yung-yo |
| 1980 | Isao Aoki | 283 | −9 | 1 stroke | Teruo Sugihara |
| 1979 | Teruo Sugihara (2) | 287 | −5 | Playoff | Masashi Ozaki |
| Wizard Tournament |||||||
| 1978 | Tōru Nakamura | 214 | −2 | 1 stroke | Kikuo Arai Yoshitaka Yamamoto |
| 1977 | Graham Marsh (3) | 220 | +4 | 2 strokes | Seiji Kusakabe |
| 1976 | Graham Marsh (2) | 212 | −4 | 1 stroke | Haruo Yasuda |
| 1975 | Graham Marsh | 141 | −3 | 1 stroke | Lu Liang-Huan |
| 1974 | Teruo Sugihara | 146 | +2 | Playoff | Kosaku Shimada |
| 1973 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto | | | | |
| 1972 | Masashi Ozaki | 144 | E | Playoff | Peter Thomson |
| 1971 | Peter Thomson | 143 | −1 | 1 stroke | Lu Liang-Huan |
| 1970 | Hsieh Yung-yo | 146 | +2 | | |