Mizuno Open

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title: "Mizuno Open" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["japan-golf-tour-events", "golf-tournaments-in-japan", "recurring-sporting-events-established-in-1971", "1971-establishments-in-japan"] topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuno_Open" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open
location	Kasaoka, Okayama, Japan
establishment	1971
course	JFE Setonaikai Golf Club
par	72
yardage	7461 yd
tour	Japan Golf Tour
format	Stroke play
purse
month_played	May/June
aggregate	266 Norio Suzuki (1980)
to-par	−20 as above
current_champion	JPN Mikiya Akutsu
map	Japan#Japan Okayama Prefecture
map_label	Setonaikai Golf Club
map_caption	Location in Japan##Location in the Okayama Prefecture
map_relief	yes
map_size	200
coordinates
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| name = Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | location = Kasaoka, Okayama, Japan | establishment = 1971 | course = JFE Setonaikai Golf Club | par = 72 | yardage = 7461 yd | tour = Japan Golf Tour | format = Stroke play | purse = | month_played = May/June | aggregate = 266 Norio Suzuki (1980) | to-par = −20 as above | current_champion = JPN Mikiya Akutsu | map = Japan#Japan Okayama Prefecture | map_label = Setonaikai Golf Club | map_caption = Location in Japan##Location in the Okayama Prefecture | map_relief = yes | map_label_position = | map_size = 200 | coordinates = The Mizuno Open is a professional golf tournament played in Japan. Founded in 1971, it has been a Japan Golf Tour event since 1979. Since 1998, the event has been prefixed Gateway to The Open, with the top finishers gaining exemptions into The Open Championship.

The Mizuno Open has been held at several courses, most frequently at JFE Setonaikai Golf Club in Kasaoka, Okayama, which has hosted all but six renewals since 1998. The purse for the 2024 event was ¥100,000,000, with ¥20,000,000 going to the winner.

History

The Mizuno Open was founded in 1971 as the Mizuno Tournament with both men's and women's events running side-by-side. It was restricted to golfers using at least ten Mizuno clubs. In 1979, fifty leading professionals in Japan were also eligible to compete as the tournament counted towards the Japan Golf Tour money-list ranking for the first time. In 1983 it became a full tour event and in 1985 changed its name to the Mizuno Open. From 1991, the women's event was played separately.

Since 1998, the event has been prefixed "Gateway to The Open", with the top four finishers in the tournament that were not already qualified gaining exemptions into The Open Championship. There has also been a mini-money list of Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the Mizuno Open that earns two exemptions into The Open. From 2007 to 2010 The Mizuno Open merged with the Yomiuri Open to form the Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic.

Tournament hosts

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Years	Venue	Location
1998–2006, 2011–2017, 2021–2025	Setonaikai Golf Club	Kasaoka, Okayama
2018–2019	The Royal Golf Club	Hokota, Ibaraki
2007–2010	Yomiuri Country Club	Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
1976–1997	Tokinodai Country Club	Hakui, Ishikawa
1971–1975	Anegasaki Country Club	Ichihara, Chiba
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Winners

::data[format=table] | Year | Winner | Score | To Par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Ref. | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | Mizuno Open | Mizuno Tournament | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2025 | JPN Mikiya Akutsu | 275 | −13 | 4 strokes | JPN Riki Kawamoto KOR Song Young-han | | | | | | | | 2024 | JPN Ryosuke Kinoshita | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | KOR Koh Gun-taek | | | | | | | | 2023 | JPN Kensei Hirata | 271 | −17 | Playoff | JPN Keita Nakajima | | | | | | | | 2022 | ZIM Scott Vincent | 276 | −12 | Playoff | AUS Anthony Quayle | | | | | | | | 2021 | PHL Juvic Pagunsan | 199 | −17 | 3 strokes | JPN Ryutaro Nagano | | | | | | | | 2020 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | | | | | | | | | | | | 2019 | JPN Yuta Ikeda | 281 | −7 | 1 stroke | USA Chan Kim | | | | | | | | 2018 | JPN Shota Akiyoshi | 287 | −1 | 1 stroke | NZL Michael Hendry JPN Masahiro Kawamura JPN Masanori Kobayashi | | | | | | | | 2017 | USA Chan Kim | 273 | −15 | 5 strokes | NZL Michael Hendry | | | | | | | | 2016 | KOR Kim Kyung-tae | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | JPN Kodai Ichihara JPN Shugo Imahira KOR Lee Sang-hee | | | | | | | | 2015 | JPN Taichi Teshima | 273 | −15 | 2 strokes | AUS Scott Strange | | | | | | | | 2014 | KOR Jang Dong-kyu | 273 | −15 | 3 strokes | PHL Juvic Pagunsan | | | | | | | | 2013 | AUS Brendan Jones (2) | 269 | −19 | 3 strokes | KOR Kim Kyung-tae | | | | | | | | 2012 | AUS Brad Kennedy | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | JPN Toshinori Muto JPN Toru Taniguchi | | | | | | | | 2011 | KOR Hwang Jung-gon | 275 | −13 | 1 stroke | KOR Kim Kyung-tae | | | | | | | | 2010 | JPN Shunsuke Sonoda | 201 | −15 | 3 strokes | JPN Toru Taniguchi | | | | | | | | 2009 | JPN Ryo Ishikawa | 275 | −13 | 3 strokes | NZL David Smail | | | | | | | | 2008 | THA Prayad Marksaeng | 269 | −15 | 1 stroke | JPN Azuma Yano | | | | | | | | 2007 | KOR Lee Dong-hwan | 204 | −12 | 4 strokes | KOR Lee Seong-ho TWN Lin Keng-chi JPN Toshinori Muto JPN Achi Sato JPN Hideto Tanihara JPN Masaya Tomida | | | | | | | | 2006 | KOR Hur Suk-ho | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | JPN Tatsuhiko Ichihara NZL David Smail | | | | | | | | 2005 | AUS Chris Campbell | 278 | −10 | Playoff | NZL David Smail JPN Tadahiro Takayama | | | | | | | | 2004 | AUS Brendan Jones | 274 | −14 | Playoff | JPN Hiroaki Iijima | | | | | | | | 2003 | USA Todd Hamilton | 278 | −10 | 1 stroke | AUS Brendan Jones | | | | | | | | 2002 | USA Dean Wilson | 277 | −11 | 1 stroke | JPN Kiyoshi Miyazato | | | | | | | | 2001 | JPN Hidemichi Tanaka | 272 | −16 | 3 strokes | COL Eduardo Herrera | | | | | | | | 2000 | JPN Yasuharu Imano | 274 | −14 | 1 stroke | JPN Toshimitsu Izawa JPN Katsumasa Miyamoto | | | | | | | | 1999 | COL Eduardo Herrera | 274 | −14 | 2 strokes | JPN Tsukasa Watanabe | | | | | | | | 1998 | USA Brandt Jobe | 275 | −13 | 4 strokes | JPN Yoshi Mizumaki JPN Toru Suzuki | | | | | | | | 1997 | USA Brian Watts (3) | 278 | −10 | 2 strokes | JPN Toshimitsu Izawa | | | | | | | | 1996 | JPN Yoshinori Kaneko | 270 | −18 | 4 strokes | JPN Shinichi Yokota | | | | | | | | 1995 | USA Brian Watts (2) | 273 | −15 | 3 strokes | CAN Rick Gibson | | | | | | | | 1994 | USA Brian Watts | 280 | −8 | Playoff | COL Eduardo Herrera JPN Yoshinori Kaneko JPN Koichi Suzuki | | | | | | | | 1993 | JPN Seiki Okuda | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | AUS Wayne Grady JPN Tateo Ozaki JPN Teruo Sugihara | | | | | | | | 1992 | JPN Tōru Nakamura | 282 | −6 | 1 stroke | JPN Saburo Fujiki AUS Brian Jones | | | | | | | | 1991 | AUS Roger Mackay | 207 | −9 | Playoff | JPN Satoshi Higashi | | | | | | | | 1990 | AUS Brian Jones | 272 | −16 | 4 strokes | JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima | | | | | | | | 1989 | JPN Akiyoshi Ohmachi | 283 | −5 | 2 strokes | AUS Brian Jones JPN Fujio Kobayashi JPN Masahiro Kuramoto JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima | | | | | | | | 1988 | JPN Yoshimi Niizeki | 280 | −8 | Playoff | JPN Seiichi Kanai | | | | | | | | 1987 | USA David Ishii | 272 | −16 | 8 strokes | TWN Chen Tze-ming JPN Tōru Nakamura | | | | | | | | 1986 | JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima | 239 | −11 | 6 strokes | JPN Tsukasa Watanabe | | | | | | | | 1985 | JPN Tateo Ozaki JPN Katsunari Takahashi | 205 | −11 | Title shared | | | | | | | | | 1984 | JPN Kikuo Arai (2) | 279 | −9 | 1 stroke | JPN Naomichi Ozaki | | | | | | | | 1983 | JPN Eitaro Deguchi | 277 | −11 | 3 strokes | TWN Hsieh Min-Nan JPN Tsuneyuki Nakajima JPN Shigeru Uchida | | | | | | | | 1982 | JPN Teruo Sugihara | 282 | −6 | | | | | | | | | | 1981 | JPN Kikuo Arai | 274 | −12 | 2 strokes | JPN Shigeru Uchida | | | | | | | | 1980 | JPN Norio Suzuki | 266 | −20 | 6 strokes | JPN Yoshikazu Yokoshima | | | | | | | | 1979 | JPN Mitsuhiro Kitta | 272 | −16 | 2 strokes | JPN Teruo Sugihara JPN Ichiro Teramoto | | | | | | | | 1978 | JPN Akio Kanemoto | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | JPN Shigeru Uchida | | | | | | | | 1977 | JPN Masaji Kusakabe (2) | 283 | −5 | Playoff | JPN Shigeru Uchida | | | | | | | | 1976 | JPN Masaji Kusakabe | 215 | −6 | 2 strokes | KOR Han Chang-sang JPN Shigeru Uchida JPN Takemitsu Uranishi JPN Yuki Watanabe | | | | | | | | 1975 | JPN Shigeru Uchida (2) | 215 | −1 | 3 strokes | JPN Takashi Aoki | | | | | | | | 1974 | JPN Shigeru Uchida | 210 | −6 | 1 stroke | JPN Shichiro Enomoto | | | | | | | | 1973 | JPN Shichiro Enomoto | 208 | −8 | 3 strokes | JPN Akio Kanemoto | | | | | | | | 1972 | JPN Kazuo Yoshikawa | | | | | | | | | | | | 1971 | JPN Makoto Yamaguchi | 214 | −2 | 2 strokes | JPN Shichiro Enomoto | | | | | | | ::

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Notes

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