Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters

Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters
Tournament information
Location	Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan
Established	1972
Course(s)	Taiheiyo Club; (Gotemba Course)
Par	70
Length	7,262 yards (6,640 m)
Tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	¥200,000,000
Month played	November
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Hideki Matsuyama (2016)
To par	−23 as above
Current champion
	Shugo Imahira
Location map
	Taiheiyo Club Location in Japan Taiheiyo Club Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture

The Taiheiyo Masters, titled since 2001 as the Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters (三井住友Visa太平洋マスターズ, Mitsui sumitomo biza taiheiyō masutāzu) for sponsorship reasons, is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1972, it was promoted as the Pacific Masters and for a few years was the richest golf tournament in the world with a prize fund of US$300,000.^[1] It remains one of the richest tournaments in Japan, attracting some of the leading international golfers.

The tournament was played at Sobu Country Club near Inzai, Chiba until 1976. Since 1977 it has been contested on Taiheiyo Club's Gotemba Course near Gotemba, Shizuoka. Its title sponsors are Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Visa. Previous names include Taiheiyo Club Masters, Toshiba Taiheiyo Masters, Visa Taiheiyo Club Masters, and Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters.

The inaugural tournament went into a playoff between America's Gay Brewer and Australia's David Graham. It was a three-hole aggregate playoff, the first ever instituted in a golf tournament. Before that, playoffs were either decided in a full round or sudden death. Brewer won the event.^[2]

Tournament hosts

Years	Venue	Location
1977–present	Taiheiyo Club, Gotemba Course	Gotemba, Shizuoka
1972–1976	Sobu Country Club	Inzai, Chiba

Winners

Year	Tour^[a]	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters
2024	JPN
2023	JPN	Shugo Imahira	268	−12	1 stroke	Taiki Yoshida
2022	JPN	Ryo Ishikawa (3)	272	−8	Playoff	Rikuya Hoshino
2021	JPN	Hideto Tanihara (2)	274	−6	1 stroke	Takumi Kanaya
2020	JPN	Jinichiro Kozuma	272	−8	1 stroke	Ryosuke Kinoshita
2019	JPN	Takumi Kanaya (a)	267	−13	1 stroke	Shaun Norris
2018	JPN	Tatsunori Nukaga	201^[b]	−9	2 strokes	Kim Seung-hyuk
2017	JPN	Satoshi Kodaira	270	−18	3 strokes	Yūsaku Miyazato
2016	JPN	Hideki Matsuyama (2)	265	−23	7 strokes	Song Young-han
2015	JPN	Shingo Katayama (2)	202^[b]	−14	1 stroke	Thanyakon Khrongpha
2014	JPN	David Oh	276	−12	1 stroke	Toshinori Muto
2013	JPN	Hideto Tanihara	275	−13	1 stroke	Ryo Ishikawa Masahiro Kawamura Tomohiro Kondo
2012	JPN	Ryo Ishikawa (2)	273	−15	1 stroke	Michio Matsumura
2011	JPN	Hideki Matsuyama (a)	203^[b]	−13	2 strokes	Toru Taniguchi
2010	JPN	Ryo Ishikawa	274	−14	2 strokes	Brendan Jones
2009	JPN	Yasuharu Imano	275	–13	2 strokes	Kenichi Kuboya Han Lee
2008	JPN	Shingo Katayama	272	−16	Playoff	Yasuharu Imano
2007	JPN	Brendan Jones	274	−14	1 stroke	Toru Taniguchi
2006	JPN	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	275	−13	1 stroke	Toru Taniguchi
2005	JPN	Darren Clarke (2)	270	−18	2 strokes	Mitsuhiro Tateyama
2004	JPN	Darren Clarke	266	−22	6 strokes	Nozomi Kawahara Lee Westwood
2003	JPN	Kiyoshi Murota	272	−16	6 strokes	Ben Curtis Hiroyuki Fujita Kim Jong-duck
2002	JPN	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	272	−16	1 stroke	Hidemichi Tanaka
2001	JPN	Toshimitsu Izawa	270	−18	2 strokes	Yūsaku Miyazato (a) Shigeru Nonaka
Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters
2000	JPN	Toshimitsu Izawa	274	−14	1 stroke	Keiichiro Fukabori
1999	JPN	Hirofumi Miyase	274	−14	Playoff	Darren Clarke Ryoken Kawagishi
1998	JPN	Lee Westwood (3)	275	−13	2 strokes	Masashi Ozaki
1997	JPN	Lee Westwood (2)	272	−16	1 stroke	Masashi Ozaki Naomichi Ozaki
1996	JPN	Lee Westwood	206^[b]	−10	Playoff	Costantino Rocca Jeff Sluman
1995	JPN	Satoshi Higashi	274	−14	4 strokes	Shigeki Maruyama
1994	JPN	Masashi Ozaki	270	−18	5 strokes	Bob Estes
1993	JPN	Greg Norman	272	−16	1 stroke	Yoshi Mizumaki
Visa Taiheiyo Club Masters
1992	JPN	Masashi Ozaki	276	−12	1 stroke	Masahiro Kuramoto Bernhard Langer Tsukasa Watanabe
1991	JPN	Roger Mackay	272	−16	2 strokes	Yoshinori Kaneko
1990	JPN	José María Olazábal (2)	270	−18	5 strokes	Bernhard Langer Masashi Ozaki
1989	JPN	José María Olazábal	203^[b]	−13	3 strokes	Isao Aoki Naomichi Ozaki
1988	JPN	Seve Ballesteros	281	−7	3 strokes	Yasuhiro Funatogawa
1987	JPN	Graham Marsh	276	−12	1 stroke	Tom Watson
1986	JPN	Yasuhiro Funatogawa	274	−14	2 strokes	Larry Nelson
Taiheiyo Club Masters
1985	JPN	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	280	−8	Playoff	David Graham
1984	JPN	Shinsaku Maeda	275	−13	1 stroke	Kikuo Arai Naomichi Ozaki
1983: No tournament
1982	JPN	Scott Hoch	278	−10	3 strokes	Masahiro Kuramoto
Toshiba Taiheiyo Masters
1981	JPN	Danny Edwards	276	−12	3 strokes	Jerry Pate Tom Watson
1980	JPN	Norio Suzuki (2)	282	−6	Playoff	Masashi Ozaki
Taiheiyo Club Masters
1979	JPN	Norio Suzuki	280	−8	2 strokes	Rod Curl Bill Rogers Tom Watson
Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters
1978	JPN	Gil Morgan	273	−11	3 strokes	Jerry Pate
Taiheiyo Club Masters
1977	JPN	Bill Rogers	275	−9	1 stroke	Mike Morley Teruo Sugihara
1976	JPN	Jerry Pate	279	−5	2 strokes	Isao Aoki
1975	JPN	Gene Littler (2)	278	−6	1 stroke	Lee Elder Hubert Green Allen Miller Masashi Ozaki
1974		Gene Littler	279	−5	5 strokes	Bert Yancey
1973	JPN	Masashi Ozaki	278	−6	Playoff	Bert Yancey
1972		Gay Brewer	276	−8	Playoff	David Graham