Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
Tournament information
LocationGotemba, Shizuoka, Japan
Established1992
Course(s)Taiheiyo Club
(Ichihara Course)
Par72
Length6,796 yards (6,214 m)
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund¥90,000,000
Month playedApril
Final year1999
Tournament record score
Aggregate270 Peter Teravainen (1997)
To par−17 Dinesh Chand (1998)
Final champion
Japan Masayuki Kawamura
Location Map
Taiheiyo Club is located in Japan
Taiheiyo Club
Taiheiyo Club
Location in Japan
Taiheiyo Club is located in Shizuoka Prefecture
Taiheiyo Club
Taiheiyo Club
Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture

The Descente Classic was a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded in 1992 by sponsors Descente, it was renamed the Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup in 1995 and played until 1999, after which it was merged with the KSB Open to create the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)Host courseLocation
1998–1999Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course)Ichihara, Chiba
1996–1997Edosaki Country ClubInashiki, Ibaraki
1993–1995Century Miki Golf ClubMiki, Hyōgo
1992Century Yokawa Golf ClubMiki, Hyōgo

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup
1999Japan Masayuki Kawamura205[lower-alpha 1]−11PlayoffJapan Kazuhiko Hosokawa
Japan Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1998Fiji Dinesh Chand271−172 strokesParaguay Carlos Franco
Japan Hidemichi Tanaka
1997United States Peter Teravainen270−142 strokesUnited States Todd Hamilton
1996Japan Masanobu Kimura273−112 strokesJapan Hideyuki Sato
1995Japan Satoshi Higashi282−61 strokeJapan Katsuyoshi Tomori
Descente Classic
1994United States Brian Watts280−83 strokesJapan Hisao Inoue
Japan Hideki Kase
Philippines Frankie Miñoza
Japan Tsukasa Watanabe
1993Japan Tetsu Nishikawa281−72 strokesJapan Shigenori Mori
Japan Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
1992Japan Yoshinori Kaneko279−92 strokesJapan Masanobu Kimura

Notes

  1. Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

References


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