2000 Japan Golf Tour
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Golf tour season
| Duration | 9 March 2000 (2000年03月09日) – 10 December 2000 (2000年12月10日) |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 33 |
| Most wins | Japan Shingo Katayama (5) |
| Money list | Japan Shingo Katayama |
| Most Valuable Player | Japan Shingo Katayama |
| Rookie of the Year | United States Dean Wilson |
← 1999 2001 → | |
The 2000 Japan Golf Tour, titled as the 2000 iiyama Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th season of the Japan Golf Tour (formerly the PGA of Japan Tour), the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
Iiyama title sponsorship
[edit ]It was the first season in which the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with Iiyama, being renamed as the iiyama Tour. The agreement was reported to be worth \1,500,000,000 over three years.[1]
Schedule
[edit ]The following table lists official events during the 2000 season.[2]
Unofficial events
[edit ]The following events were sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse | Winner | OWGR points |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Apr | Masters Tournament | United States | US4,600,000ドル | Fiji Vijay Singh | 100 | Major championship |
| 18 Jun | U.S. Open | United States | US4,500,000ドル | United States Tiger Woods | 100 | Major championship |
| 23 Jul | The Open Championship | Scotland | 2,800,000ドル | United States Tiger Woods | 100 | Major championship |
| 20 Aug | PGA Championship | United States | US5,000,000ドル | United States Tiger Woods | 100 | Major championship |
Money list
[edit ]The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.[3] [4]
| Position | Player | Prize money (\) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan Shingo Katayama | 177,116,489 |
| 2 | Japan Toru Taniguchi | 175,829,742 |
| 3 | Japan Nobuhito Sato | 155,246,900 |
| 4 | Japan Toshimitsu Izawa | 120,316,633 |
| 5 | Japan Hidemichi Tanaka | 108,807,851 |
Awards
[edit ]| Award | Winner | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| Most Valuable Player | Japan Shingo Katayama | [5] |
| Rookie of the Year (Shimada Trophy) | United States Dean Wilson | [6] [7] |
Japan Challenge Tour
[edit ]| Duration | 13 April 2000 (2000年04月13日) – 2 November 2000 (2000年11月02日) |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 13 |
| Most wins | Japan Masanori Kobayashi (2) |
| Money list | Japan Masanori Kobayashi |
← 1999 2001 → | |
The 2000 Japan Challenge Tour was the 16th season of the Japan Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the Japan Golf Tour.
Schedule
[edit ]The following table lists official events during the 2000 season.[8]
| Date | Tournament | Location | Purse (\) |
Winner[c] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Apr | PRGR Cup (East) | Tochigi | 10,000,000 | Japan Naoki Hattori (1) |
| 20 Apr | Kourakuen Cup (1st) | Oita | 10,000,000 | Japan Mitsuhiro Tateyama (1) |
| 27 Apr | Nishino Cup Open | Ibaraki | 10,000,000 | Japan Koichi Nogami (1) |
| 12 May | Hisamitsu Seiyaku KBC Challenge | Fukuoka | 10,000,000 | Japan Masanori Kobayashi (1) |
| 2 Jun | Aiful Challenge Cup Spring | Hyōgo | 10,000,000 | Japan Yukiharu Morita (1) |
| 6 Jul | Kourakuen Cup (2nd) | Tochigi | 10,000,000 | Japan Hajime Tanaka (1) |
| 19 Jul | PRGR Cup (West) | Shiga | 10,000,000 | Japan Masanori Kobayashi (2) |
| 3 Aug | JGTO iiyama Challenge 1 | Shiga | 10,000,000 | Japan Taisuke Kitajima (4) |
| 21 Sep | Aiful Challenge Cup Autumn | Fukushima | 10,000,000 | Japan Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa (1) |
| 5 Oct | JGTO iiyama Challenge 2 | Hyōgo | 10,000,000 | Japan Takeshi Ohyama (1) |
| 21 Oct | Shinwa Golf Classic | Shiga | 10,000,000 | Japan Tatsuo Takasaki (1) |
| 2 Nov | Kourakuen Cup (3rd) | Chiba | 10,000,000 | Japan Yui Ueda (1) |
Money list
[edit ]The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.[9] The top five players on the money list earned status to play on the 2001 Japan Golf Tour (iiyama Tour).
| Position | Player | Prize money (\) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan Masanori Kobayashi | 3,851,250 |
| 2 | Japan Tatsuo Takasaki | 3,838,130 |
| 3 | Japan Naoki Hattori | 3,477,724 |
| 4 | Japan Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa | 3,414,967 |
| 5 | Japan Taisuke Kitajima | 3,058,938 |
Notes
[edit ]- ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Japan Golf Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Japan Golf Tour members.
- ^ Also a Japan major championship.
- ^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Japan Challenge Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Japan Challenge Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the Japan Golf Tour.
References
[edit ]- ^ "年間スポンサーのイーヤマ撤退を正式発表" [Official announcement of the withdrawal of annual sponsor iiyama]. Golf Digest Japan (in Japanese). 11 May 2002. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
- ^ "2000 Tour Tournaments". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- ^ "2000 Money Rankings". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- ^ "片山晋呉が、今季5勝目で逆転賞金王に!!" [Shingo Katayama comes from behind to become the prize money champion with his 5th win of the season!!] (in Japanese). Japan Golf Tour Organization. 11 December 2000. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "Katayama picks up MVP title". The Japan Times. 6 December 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
Katayama, who claimed the money rankings crown for the third time overall, won the MVP title for the first time in five years and second time in his career.
- ^ "Short putts" . The Honolulu Advertiser. Honolulu, Hawaii. 17 January 2001. p. 13 (C6 in paper). Retrieved 6 March 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "2004 PGA Tour Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. 2004. p. 170 (2-156 in document). Retrieved 2 January 2024.
Dean Wilson | 2000: JPGA rookie of the year.
- ^ "2000 Challenge Schedule". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ "2000 Challenge Money Ranking". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 30 December 2022.