Japan Challenge Tour

The Japan Challenge Tour is a series of developmental golf tournaments run by the Japan Golf Tour Organization. It has been in operation since 1985. The 2015 schedule featured 17 tournaments, with a prize fund of ¥10 million to ¥15 million. This is around a tenth of the level of prize money per event on offer on the main Japanese Tour, and the main tour also has a longer season.

Tournament schedules

2015 season

Date	Tournament	Location	Prize fund (¥)	Winner
5 Apr	Novil Cup	Tokushima	15,000,000	Park Il-hwan
1 May	Fuji Home Service Challenge Cup	Shiga	10,000,000	Yujiro Ohori
8 May	Japan Create Challenge	Fukuoka	10,000,000	Masashi Hidaka
22 May	HEIWA PGM Challenge I Road to Championship	Hiroshima	10,000,000	Tatsunori Nukaga
29 May	Good Job Challenge	Ibaraki	10,000,000	Yu Morimoto
11 Jun	ISPS Handa Global Challenge Cup	Chiba	13,000,000	Shigeru Nonaka
19 Jun	Musee Platinum Challenge Tournament	Fukushima	10,000,000	Yosuke Asaji
26 Jun	LANDIC Challenge	Fukuoka	10,000,000	Tomoyo Ikemura
3 Jul	HEIWA PGM Challenge II Road to Championship	Ibaraki	10,000,000	Keiichi Kaneko
31 Jul	Minami Akita Country Club Challenge Tournament	Akita	10,000,000	Yu Morimoto
21 Aug	PGA JGTO Challenge Cup	Chiba	13,000,000	Keiichi Kaneko
4 Sep	Elite Grips Challenge	Gunma	10,000,000	Tomoyo Ikemura
11 Sep	Himawari Dragon CUP	Chiba	10,000,000	Koichi Sugimoto
18 Sep	Seven Dreamers Challenge	Chiba	10,000,000	Shota Akiyoshi
10 Oct	Everyone Project Challenge Golf Tournament	Tochigi	10,000,000	Shota Akiyoshi
16 Oct	Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament	Ibaraki	10,000,000	Hiroaki Hirai
23 Oct	JGTO Novil Final	Chiba	10,000,000	Masamichi Uehira

2014 season

Date	Tournament	Location	Prize fund (¥)	Winner
6 Apr	Novil Cup	Tokushima	15,000,000	Soushi Tajima
9 May	Plus One Fukuoka Raizan Challenge	Fukuoka	10,000,000	Peter Wilson
23 May	Heiwa PGM Challenge I Road to Championship	Hyōgo	10,000,000	Shugo Imahira
13 Jun	Fuji Country Kani Club Challenge Cup	Gifu	10,000,000	Toru Suzuki
27 Jun	Landic Golf Tournament Associa Mansion Memorial	Fukuoka	10,000,000	Shintaro Kai
10 Jul	ISPS Charity Challenge Tournament	Shizuoka	15,000,000	Shota Akiyoshi
25 Jul	Heiwa PGM Challenge II Road to Championship	Niigata	10,000,000	Kiyoshi Miyazato
1 Aug	Akita TV Minamiakita CC Challenge	Akita	10,000,000	Yasunobu Fukunaga
22 Aug	PGA JGTO Challenge Cup	Chiba	13,000,000	Taigen Tsumagari
5 Sep	Madame Shinco Challenge Tournament	Hyōgo	10,000,000	Peter Wilson
12 Sep	Himawari Dragon Cup	Chiba	10,000,000	Toru Suzuki
19 Sep	Seven Dreamers Challenge	Chiba	10,000,000	Yuki Inamori
26 Sep	Elite Grips Challenge	Mie	10,000,000	Yuichiro Nishi
4 Oct	Ishikawa Ryo Everyone Project Challenge	Tochigi	15,000,000	Katsufumi Okino
10 Oct	Taiheiyo Club Challenge Tournament	Ibaraki	10,000,000	Richard Hattori
24 Oct	JGTO Novil Final	Chiba	10,000,000	Shugo Imahira

2013 season

Date	Tournament	Winner
7 Apr	Novil Cup	Dong-Kyu Jang
19 Apr	Heiwa PGM Challenge I Road to Championship	Paul Sheehan
24 May	Fuji Country Kani Club Challenge Cup	Ryuichi Kondo
7 Jun	ISPS Charity Challenge Tournament	Hiroyuki Nagamatsu
14 Jun	Akita TV Minami Akita CC JGTO Challenge I	Sachio Sugiyama
5 Jul	LANDIC VanaH Cup KBC Augusta Challenge	K T Kwon
26 Jul	Heiwa PGM Challenge II Road to Championship	Genki Yanase
2 Aug	Daisen GC JGTO Challenge II	Masayuki Kawamura
16 Aug	ROYZE Corporation Cup in FukuokaRaizan	K T Kwon
6 Sep	PGA JGTO Challenge Cup in Boso	Masamichi Ito
13 Sep	Dragon Cup	Toru Suzuki
22 Sep	Everyone Project Challenge Golf Tournament	Shinji Tomimura
28 Sep	Elite Grips JGTO Challenge III	Hirotaro Naito
11 Oct	Heiwa PGM Challenge III Road to Championship	Katsunori Kuwabara
25 Oct	JGTO Novil Final	Yoshitaka Takeya

2012 season

Date	Tournament	Winner
1 Apr	Novil Cup	Ji-Ho Yang
20 Apr	Kimisarazu GL GMA Challenge Tournament	Daijiro Izumida
25 May	Fuji Country Kani Club Challenge Cup	Naomi Ohta
1 Jun	Murasaki CC Sumire GMA Challenge Tournament	Akio Sadakata
7 Jun	ISPS CharityChallenge Tournament	Yosuke Asaji
15 Jun	Akita TV Minami Akita CC JGTO Challenge I	Yuki Kono
29 Jun	Tokyu Nasu Resort JGTO Challenge II	Yuki Kono
14 Jul	Shizu Hills Tommy Cup	Koichi Sugimoto
27 Jul	Daisen GC JGTO Challenge III	Masashi Nishimura
13 Sep	PGA JGTO Challenge Cup I in Onotoyo	Achi Sato
21 Sep	PGA JGTO Challenge Cup II in Boso	Satoshi Kodaira
228 Sep	Elite Grips JGTO Challenge IV	Toru Morita
19 Oct	JGTO Novil Final	In-Hoi Hur

2011 season

Date	Tournament	Winner
10 Apr	Novil Cup	Tatsunori Nukaga
22 Apr	Kimisarazu GL GMA Challenge Tournament	Takanobu Kondo
27 May	Fuji Country Kanai Club Challenge Cup	Hidezumi Shirakata
9 Jun	Boso Country Cup	Hirohito Koizumi
1 Jul	Tokyu Resort Nasu JGTO Challenge	Chinnarat Phadungsil
9 Jul	Shizu Hills Tommy Cup	Koichi Sugimoto
22 Jul	SRIXON Challenge	Hidemichi Haginomori
16 Sep	Toshoen GC JGTO Challenge II	Taro Hiroi
22 Sep	elite grips JGTO Challenge III	Yudai Maeda
21 Oct	JGTO Novil Final	Tatsunori Nukaga

2010 season

Date	Tournament	Winner
11 Apr	Novil Cup	Soushi Tajima
21 May	Toshin Challenge	Akira Endo
28 May	Fuji Country Kanai Club Challenge Cup	Dinesh Chand
11 Jun	Tohoku Yakurai Cup	Dinesh Chand
19 Jun	Shizu Hills Tommy Cup	Sushi Ishigaki
25 Jun	Tokyu Resort Nasu JGTO Challenge	Chen Chih Chiang
15 Jul	Boso Country Cup	Masayoshi Nakayama
20 Aug	Hatoyama Country Club GMA Challenge Tournament	Satoshi Kodaira (am)
10 Sep	SRIXON Challenge	Shunta Maeawakura
17 Sep	Itsuurateien JGTO Challenge 2	Hirohito Koizumi
22 Oct	JGTO Novil Final	Sung-Joon Park

Money list winners

Year	Player	Country	Prize money (¥)
2005	Shoichi Ideguchi	Japan	5,070,263
2006	Takaki Ono	Japan	7,710,069
2007	Michio Matsumura	Japan	6,685,183
2008	Masamichi Uehira	Japan	6,329,033
2009	Chris Campbell	Australia	6,136,154
2010	Dinesh Chand	Fiji	4,780,625
2011	Tatsunori Nukaga	Japan	5,846,275
2012	Yuki Koko	Japan	4,607,237
2013	K T Kwon	South Korea	5,326,885
2014	Shugo Imahira	Japan	7,444,288
2015	Yu Morimoto	Japan	4,479,531

Source:

External links

• Current season schedule on the Japan Golf Tour's official site