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1977 PGA of Japan Tour

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1977 PGA of Japan Tour season
Duration21 April 1977 (1977-04-21) – 4 December 1977 (1977-12-04)
Number of official events31
Most winsJapan Masashi Ozaki (4)
Money listJapan Masashi Ozaki
1976
1978

The 1977 PGA of Japan Tour was the fifth season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.

Schedule

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The following table lists official events during the 1977 season.[1][2]

Date Tournament Location Purse
(¥)
Winner[a] Other
tours[b]
Notes
24 Apr Dunlop International Open Ibaraki US$80,000 Philippines Ben Arda (4) AGC
1 May Chunichi Crowns Aichi 60,000,000 Australia Graham Marsh (10)
15 May Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Kanagawa 30,000,000 Japan Tadashi Kitta (2)
22 May Fujisankei Classic Saitama 30,000,000 Japan Yasuhiro Miyamoto (4)
29 May Pepsi-Wilson Tournament Kanagawa 25,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (16)
5 Jun Mitsubishi Galant Tournament Ishikawa 30,000,000 Taiwan Hsu Sheng-san (1)
12 Jun Tohoku Classic Miyagi 23,000,000 Japan Isao Aoki (13)
19 Jun Sapporo Tokyu Open Hokkaidō 25,000,000 Japan Yasuhiro Miyamoto (5)
26 Jun Shizuoka Open Shizuoka 25,000,000 Taiwan Lu Liang-Huan (6)
3 Jul ANA Sapporo Open Hokkaidō 30,000,000 Japan Teruo Sugihara (8)
10 Jul Kansai Open Shiga 12,000,000 Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto (4)
15 Jul Chushikoku Open Hiroshia 2,100,000 Japan Tadami Ueno (3)
16 Jul Chubu Open Aichi 5,000,000 Japan Hiroshi Ishii (4)
17 Jul Kyusyu Open Fukuoka 5,000,000 Japan Norio Suzuki (7)
24 Jul Kanto Open Shizuoka 20,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (17)
7 Aug Kanto Pro Championship Tochigi 20,000,000 Japan Kenji Mori (1)
7 Aug Kansai Pro Championship Yamaguchi 10,000,000 Japan Kosaku Shimada (5)
28 Aug KBC Augusta Fukuoka 32,000,000 Australia Brian Jones (1)
28 Aug Hokkaido Open Hokkaidō 1,700,000 Japan Koichi Uehara (1)
4 Sep Hiroshima Open Hiroshima 20,000,000 Japan Yasuhiro Miyamoto (6)
11 Sep Suntory Open Chiba 40,000,000 Japan Masaji Kusakabe (2)
18 Sep Sanpo Classic Chiba 20,000,000 Japan Shigeru Uchida (1)
25 Sep Japan PGA Championship Gifu 25,000,000 Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima (2)
9 Oct Taiheiyo Club Masters Shizuoka US$300,000 United States Bill Rogers (n/a)
16 Oct Tokai Classic Aichi 32,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (18)
23 Oct Golf Digest Tournament Shizuoka 20,000,000 Japan Takashi Murakami (11)
30 Oct Bridgestone Tournament Chiba 30,000,000 Japan Fujio Kobayashi (1)
13 Nov ABC Japan vs USA Golf Matches Hyōgo US$120,000 Japan Isao Aoki (14)
20 Nov Japan Open Golf Championship Chiba 65,000,000 Spain Seve Ballesteros (n/a)
27 Nov Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Miyazaki 60,000,000 Spain Seve Ballesteros (n/a)
4 Dec Golf Nippon Series Tokyo 15,000,000 Japan Masashi Ozaki (19)

Money list

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

Position Player Prize money (¥)
1 Japan Masashi Ozaki 35,932,608
2 Japan Isao Aoki 31,425,073
3 Japan Teruo Sugihara 28,135,386
4 Japan Yasuhiro Miyamoto 27,027,699
5 Japan Tsuneyuki Nakajima 24,440,839

Notes

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  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.
  2. ^ AGC − Asia Golf Circuit.

References

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  1. ^ "1977 Tour Tournaments". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. ^ Simms, George (1978). World of Golf 1978. Queen Anne Press. pp. 116–125. ISBN 0354090356. Retrieved 24 November 2023 – via Archive.org.
  3. ^ "1977 Money Rankings". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
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