Golf tour season
The 1981 PGA of Japan Tour was the ninth season of the PGA of Japan Tour , the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 1981 season.[ 1] [ 2]
Date
Tournament
Location
Purse¥ )
Winner[ a]
Other[ b]
Notes
22 Mar
Shizuoka Open Shizuoka
32,000,000
Isao Aoki (30)
5 Apr
Aso National Park Open Kumamoto
15,000,000
Saburo Fujiki (1)
19 Apr
Kuzuha Kokusai Tournament Osaka
15,000,000
Kosaku Shimada (8)
26 Apr
Dunlop International Open Ibaraki
30,000,000
Kosaku Shimada (9)AGC
3 May
Chunichi Crowns Aichi
65,000,000
Graham Marsh (12)
10 May
Fujisankei Classic Shizuoka
40,000,000
Toshiharu Kawada (1)
17 May
Japan PGA Match-Play Championship Kanagawa
40,000,000
Isao Aoki (31)
24 May
Yomiuri Open Hyōgo
30,000,000
Namio Takasu (2)
31 May
Mitsubishi Galant Tournament Tochigi
35,000,000
Lu Hsi-chuen (1)
7 Jun
Tohoku Classic Miyagi
30,000,000
Teruo Sugihara (15)
14 Jun
Sapporo Tokyu Open Hokkaidō
30,000,000
Chen Tze-chung (1)
21 Jun
Pepsi-Wilson Tournament Yamaguchi
25,000,000
Graham Marsh (13)
2 Jul
Naganoken Open Nagano
17,000,000
Fujio Kobayashi (3)Masaji Kusakabe (7)Title shared
5 Jul
JPGA East-West Tournament Mie
12,000,000
Shinsaku Maeda (5)
12 Jul
Gunmaken Open Gunma
6,000,000
Satsuki Takahashi (1)New to PGA of Japan Tour
19 Jul
Descente Cup Hokkoku Open Ishikawa
25,000,000
Saburo Fujiki (2)
26 Jul
Niigata Open Niigata
15,000,000
Takahiro Takeyasu (1)New to PGA of Japan Tour
2 Aug
Japan PGA Championship Hokkaidō
32,000,000
Isao Aoki (32)
9 Aug
Mizuno Tournament Ishikawa
22,000,000
Kikuo Arai (1)
16 Aug
Nihon Kokudo Keikaku Summers Chiba
33,000,000
Masahiro Kuramoto (2)
23 Aug
Kanto Pro Championship Shizuoka
20,000,000
Seiichi Kanai (3)
23 Aug
Kansai Pro Championship Hiroshima
13,000,000
Norio Suzuki (14)
30 Aug
KBC Augusta Fukuoka
32,000,000
Hsieh Min-Nan (6)
5 Sep
Chushikoku Open Shimane
5,000,000
Masahiro Kuramoto (3)
6 Sep
Chubu Open Aichi
12,000,000
Shigeru Uchida (3)
6 Sep
Kyusyu Open Fukuoka
8,000,000
Yurio Akitomi (3)
6 Sep
Kanto Open Tochigi
20,000,000
Nobumitsu Yuhara (1)
6 Sep
Kansai Open Shiga
15,000,000
Akio Kanemoto (3)
6 Sep
Hokkaido Open Hokkaidō
4,000,000
Mitsuyoshi Goto (1)
13 Sep
Suntory Open Chiba
40,000,000
Bill Rogers (n/a)
20 Sep
ANA Sapporo Open Hokkaidō
30,000,000
Masahiro Kuramoto (4)
27 Sep
Hiroshima Open Hiroshima
25,000,000
Seiichi Kanai (4)
4 Oct
Gene Sarazen Jun Classic Tochigi
45,000,000
Nobumitsu Yuhara (2)
11 Oct
Tokai Classic Aichi
35,000,000
Masahiro Kuramoto (5)
18 Oct
Golf Digest Tournament Shizuoka
30,000,000
Toyotake Nakao (1)
25 Oct
Bridgestone Tournament Chiba
50,000,000
Hale Irwin (n/a)
1 Nov
Japan Open Golf Championship Gifu
47,000,000
Yutaka Hagawa (1)
8 Nov
ABC Cup Japan vs USA Hyōgo
36,000,000
Bobby Clampett (n/a)
15 Nov
Toshiba Taiheiyo Masters Shizuoka
70,000,000
Danny Edwards (n/a)
22 Nov
Dunlop Phoenix Tournament Miyazaki
80,000,000
Seve Ballesteros (n/a)
29 Nov
Casio World Open Kagoshima
60,000,000
Lee Trevino (n/a)New tournament
6 Dec
Golf Nippon Series Tokyo
17,000,000
Yutaka Hagawa (2)
Money list
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen .[ 3]
Position
Player
Prize money (¥ )
1
Isao Aoki 57,262,941
2
Masahiro Kuramoto 32,345,130
3
Tsuneyuki Nakajima 29,600,960
4
Tōru Nakamura 29,412,852
5
Nobumitsu Yuhara 26,534,162
Notes
^ 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.
^ AGC − Asia Golf Circuit .
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