# Bridgestone Open

The Bridgestone Open (ブリヂストンオープンゴルフトーナメント, Burijisuton ōpun gorufu tōnamento) was a professional golf tournament in Japan, sponsored by Bridgestone. Founded in 1972, it had been an event on the Japan Golf Tour since in inaugural season in 1973. From 1972 to 1984, the title of the event was the Bridgestone Tournament, because it was only for professional players.
The tournament record is 265 (−23), set by Yuta Ikeda in 2010. The 2018 total purse was ¥150,000,000 with ¥30,000,000 going to the winner. For many years, the winner received an invite to the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

## Tournament hosts

In 1972 the first Bridgestone Tournament was held at the Mitsukaido Golf Club. The following year, the tournament moved to the Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club. Since 1974, it has been held at the Sodegaura Country Club.

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | To Par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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| 2021 | Tomoyasu Sugiyama | 265 | −19 | 3 strokes | Naoyuki Kataoka Jinichiro Kozuma |
| 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 | Shugo Imahira (2) | 131 | −11 | 1 stroke | Seungsu Han Hiroyuki Fujita Tomoharu Otsuki Akio Sadakata |
| 2018 | Shugo Imahira | 268 | −16 | 1 stroke | Masahiro Kawamura |
| 2017 | Ryuko Tokimatsu | 133 | −9 | 2 strokes | Lee Sang-hee |
| 2016 | Satoshi Kodaira | 270 | −14 | 1 stroke | Lee Kyoung-hoon |
| 2015 | Michio Matsumura | 275 | −9 | 2 strokes | Adam Bland Mikumu Horikawa Yuki Inamori Kim Kyung-tae |
| 2014 | Koumei Oda | 269 | −15 | 1 stroke | Hiroyuki Fujita |
| 2013 | Daisuke Maruyama | 203 | −10 | 3 strokes | Jang Ik-jae |
| 2012 | Toru Taniguchi (3) | 272 | −12 | 1 stroke | Hiroyuki Fujita |
| 2011 | Toru Taniguchi (2) | 269 | −15 | 5 strokes | Shingo Katayama Hiroo Kawai Michio Matsumura Koumei Oda |
| 2010 | Yuta Ikeda (2) | 265 | −23 | 3 strokes | Michio Matsumura |
| 2009 | Yuta Ikeda | 270 | −18 | 2 strokes | Kenichi Kuboya |
| 2008 | Azuma Yano | 267 | −21 | 4 strokes | Takao Nogami |
| 2007 | Shingo Katayama | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | Steven Conran Keiichiro Fukabori Tomohiro Kondo |
| 2006 | Taichi Teshima | 266 | −22 | 5 strokes | Kiyoshi Maita |
| 2005 | David Smail | 272 | −16 | 2 strokes | Toru Suzuki |
| 2004 | Toru Taniguchi | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Shigeki Maruyama Shinichi Yokota |
| 2003 | Naomichi Ozaki | 267 | −21 | Playoff | Paul Sheehan |
| 2002 | Scott Laycock | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Shingo Katayama Toru Taniguchi |
| 2001 | Toshimitsu Izawa | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Masashi Ozaki |
| 2000 | Nobuhito Sato (2) | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Katsumasa Miyamoto |
| 1999 | Shigeki Maruyama (3) | 268 | −20 | 5 strokes | Toshimitsu Izawa |
| 1998 | Nobuhito Sato | 275 | −13 | Playoff | Tateo Ozaki |
| 1997 | Masashi Ozaki (2) | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Shigeki Maruyama Tateo Ozaki |
| 1996 | Shigeki Maruyama (2) | 272 | −16 | 2 strokes | Brian Watts |
| 1995 | Shigeki Maruyama | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | Mark Calcavecchia Masashi Ozaki Shinichi Yokota |
| 1994 | Brian Watts | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | Mark Calcavecchia |
| 1993 | Ikuo Shirahama | 271 | −17 | 5 strokes | Mark Calcavecchia Nolan Henke Tsukasa Watanabe |
| 1992 | Masahiro Kuramoto (3) | 271 | −17 | Playoff | Tetsu Nishikawa |
| 1991 | Isao Aoki | 134 | −10 | 1 stroke | Tsuyoshi Yoneyama |
| 1990 | Saburo Fujiki | 274 | −14 | Playoff | Akihito Yokoyama |
| 1989 | Roger Mackay | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Yoshitaka Yamamoto |
| 1988 | Masashi Ozaki | 273 | −15 | 2 strokes | Isao Aoki |
| 1987 | David Ishii | 282 | −6 | Playoff | Hiroshi Makino Nobuo Serizawa |
| 1986 | Tateo Ozaki | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Naomichi Ozaki |
| 1985 | Masahiro Kuramoto (2) | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | Isao Aoki |
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| 1984 | Masahiro Kuramoto | 279 | −9 | Playoff | Chen Tze-chung Yoshihisa Iwashita Sam Torrance |
| 1983 | Eitaro Deguchi | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | Hsieh Min-Nan |
| 1982 | Hsieh Min-Nan (2) | 279 | −9 | Playoff | Kikuo Arai |
| 1981 | Hale Irwin | 275 | −13 | 8 strokes | Bill Rogers |
| 1980 | Bob Gilder | 283 | −5 | 1 stroke | Isao Aoki |
| 1979 | Lanny Wadkins | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | Yoshikazu Yokoshima |
| 1978 | Hiroshi Ishii (2) | 280 | −8 | 2 strokes | Fujio Kobayashi |
| 1977 | Fujio Kobayashi | 278 | −10 | 3 strokes | Haruo Yasuda |
| 1976 | Takashi Murakami | 282 | −6 | Playoff | Hsieh Min-Nan Masaji Kusakabe |
| 1975 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto | 283 | −5 | 3 strokes | Haruo Yasuda |
| 1974 | Graham Marsh | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | Seiichi Numazawa |
| 1973 | Hiroshi Ishii | 275 | −13 | 2 strokes | Haruo Yasuda |
| 1972 | Hsieh Min-Nan | 276 | −12 | 3 strokes | Buddy Allin Kuo Chie-Hsiung |