1973 PGA of Japan Tour

1973 PGA of Japan Tour season
Duration26 April 1973 (1973-04-26) – 9 December 1973 (1973-12-09)
Number of official events30
Most winsJapan Isao Aoki (5)
Japan Masashi Ozaki (5)
Money listJapan Masashi Ozaki
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The 1973 PGA of Japan Tour was the inaugural season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 1973 season.[1]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(¥)		 Winner(s)[a] Notes
29 Apr Chunichi Crowns Aichi 18,000,000 Japan Isao Aoki (1)
13 May Kanto Pro Championship Chiba 10,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (1)
20 May Pepsi Tournament Kanagawa 25,000,000 Japan Isao Aoki (2)
27 May Dunlop Tournament Chiba 15,000,000 Philippines Ben Arda (1)
3 Jun World Friendship Nara 10,000,000 Taiwan Lu Liang-Huan (1)
17 Jun Sapporo Tokyu Open Hokkaidō 10,000,000 Japan Isao Aoki (3) New tournament
8 Jul ANA Sapporo Open Hokkaidō 15,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (2)
15 Jul Aero Masters Tokyo 25,000,000 Japan Fumio Tanaka (1) New tournament
19 Jul Kansai Open Hyōgo 6,000,000 Japan Teruo Sugihara (1)
29 Jul All Japan Doubles Hokkaidō 10,000,000 Japan Takashi Murakami (1) and
Japan Hideyo Sugimoto (1)		 Team event
5 Aug Tohoku Classic Miyagi 10,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (3)
9 Aug Kyusyu Open Fukuoka 2,000,000 Japan Kunio Koike (1)
12 Aug Fujisankei Classic Saitama 30,000,000 Australia Graham Marsh (1) New tournament
19 Aug Suntory Open Shizuoka 30,000,000 Japan Hideyo Sugimoto (2) New tournament
24 Aug Chushikoku Open Yamaguchi 1,000,000 Japan Mitsuhiko Masuda (1)
26 Aug KBC Augusta Fukuoka 15,000,000 Japan Isao Aoki (4) New tournament
30 Aug Chubu Open Gifu 2,000,000 Japan Hiroshi Ishii (1)
2 Sep Hiroshima Open Hiroshima 8,000,000 Japan Tōru Nakamura (1)
8 Sep Kansai Pro Championship Saga 8,000,000 Japan Kosaku Shimada (1)
9 Sep Kanto Open Saitama 10,000,000 Japan Takashi Kurihara (1)
16 Sep Sanpo Classic Chiba 10,000,000 Japan Namio Takasu (1)
23 Sep First Flight Tournament Shizuoka 12,000,000 Japan Takaaki Kono (1)
30 Sep Japan Open Golf Championship Osaka 20,000,000 Philippines Ben Arda (2)
7 Oct Golf Digest Tournament Shizuoka 10,000,000 Japan Teruo Sugihara (2)
14 Oct Taiheiyo Club Masters Chiba 90,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (4)
21 Oct Japan PGA Championship Gifu 10,000,000 Japan Isao Aoki (5)
28 Oct Tokai Classic Aichi 16,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (5)
4 Nov Bridgestone Tournament Tokyo 15,000,000 Japan Hiroshi Ishii (2)
25 Nov ABC Japan vs USA Golf Matches Wakayama 23,000,000 United States Al Geiberger (n/a)
9 Dec ANA Phoenix Tournament Miyazaki 10,000,000 Japan Yasuhiro Miyamoto (1) New tournament

Money list

The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.[2][3]

Position Player Prize money (¥)
1 Japan Masashi Ozaki 43,814,000
2 Japan Isao Aoki 31,595,926
3 Japan Teruo Sugihara 13,965,796
4 Japan Tōru Nakamura 13,806,190
5 Japan Kosaku Shimada 13,518,570

Notes

  1. ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of PGA of Japan Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for PGA of Japan Tour members.

References

  1. ^ "1973 Tour Tournaments". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  2. ^ "1973 Money Rankings". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Aoki takes golf award". Waycross Journal-Herald. Waycross, Georgia. 22 December 1973. p. 6 (P-6 in paper). Retrieved 23 July 2023 – via Google News Archive. The leading money winner on the Japanese Tour, Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki, finished second to Aoki in the voting.