Career Money Leaders
The table shows the top ten career money leaders on the Japan Golf Tour through the 2012 season. The figures shown include money won in the four global major championships from 1998 onwards and in the individual World Golf Championships events from their introduction in 1999. The leading non-Japanese money winner on the tour is Japanese-American David Ishii with earnings of over 810 million ¥ (12th place). The leading non ethnic-Japanese player is the Australian Brendan Jones with earnings of over 780 million ¥ (16th place).
| Position | Player | Country | Prize Money (¥) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki | Japan | 2,688,528,253 |
| 2 | Shingo Katayama | Japan | 1,733,401,608 |
| 3 | Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima | Japan | 1,656,408,175 |
| 4 | Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki | Japan | 1,540,433,233 |
| 5 | Toru Taniguchi | Japan | 1,490,522,237 |
| 6 | Hiroyuki Fujita | Japan | 1,198,045,075 |
| 7 | Masahiro "Massy" Kuramoto | Japan | 1,018,192,189 |
| 8 | Toshimitsu Izawa | Japan | 1,007,855,886 |
| 9 | Isao Aoki | Japan | 980,652,048 |
| 10 | Taichi Teshima | Japan | 847,479,479 |
There is a full list on the Japan Golf Tour's website here.
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