This is a list of golfers who have won 10 or more events on the Japan Golf Tour since it was established in 1973. The official Japan Golf Tour website lists winners beginning with the 1985 season. Individual player pages, however, list the total number of career wins under "Lifetime Record".
Many of the players on the list have won events on other tours and unofficial events.
This list is up to date as of 2 December 2012.
Rank | Player | Lifespan | Country | Wins | Winning span |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki | 1947– | Japan | 94 | 1973–2002 |
2 | Isao Aoki | 1942– | Japan | 51 | 1973–1992 |
3 | Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima | 1954– | Japan | 48 | 1976–2006 |
4 | Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki | 1956– | Japan | 32 | 1984–2005 |
5 | Masahiro "Massy" Kuramoto | 1955– | Japan | 30 | 1980–2003 |
6 | Teruo Sugihara | 1937– | Japan | 28 | 1973–1990 |
7 | Shingo Katayama | 1973– | Japan | 26 | 1998–2008 |
T8 | Graham Marsh | 1944– | Australia | 20 | 1973–1990 |
Toru Nakamura | 1950– | Japan | 20 | 1973–1992 | |
10 | Toru Taniguchi | 1968– | Japan | 19 | 1998–2012 |
T11 | Norio Suzuki | 1951– | Japan | 16 | 1974–1982 |
Toshimitsu Izawa | 1968– | Japan | 16 | 1995–2007 | |
T13 | Hiroyuki Fujita | 1969– | Japan | 15 | 1997–2012 |
Tateo "Jet" Ozaki | 1954– | Japan | 15 | 1984–2000 | |
T15 | Saburo Fujiki | 1955– | Japan | 14 | 1981–1993 |
David Ishii | 1955– | United States | 14 | 1985–1994 | |
17 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto | 1951– | Japan | 13 | 1973–1993 |
T18 | Brian Watts | 1966– | Canada United States |
12 | 1994–1998 |
Brendan Jones | 1975– | Australia | 12 | 2002–2012 | |
T20 | Todd Hamilton | 1965– | United States | 11 | 1992–2003 |
Hsieh Min-Nan | 1940– | Taiwan | 11 | 1974–1985 | |
Brian Jones | 1951– | Australia | 11 | 1977–1993 | |
Seiichi Kanai | 1940– | Japan | 11 | 1976–1990 | |
Hajime Meshiai | 1954– | Japan | 11 | 1985–1999 | |
Takashi Murakami | 1944– | Japan | 11 | 1973–1977 | |
T26 | Yuta Ikeda | 1985– | Japan | 10 | 2009–2012 |
Ryo Ishikawa | 1991– | Japan | 10 | 2007–2012 | |
Shigeki Maruyama | 1969– | Japan | 10 | 1993–2009 | |
Katsunari Takahashi | 1950– | Japan | 10 | 1982–1991 | |
Hidemichi Tanaka | 1971– | Japan | 10 | 1995–2001 |
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