Golfers With Most Wins on the Japan Tour

Which golfer has the most wins over his career on the Japan Tour? You might say that golfer is a "big" name, because he is best-known by his nickname, "Jumbo." And he won nearly 100 tournaments on the Japan Tour.

The Japan Golf Tour (or JGTO, for Japan Golf Tour Organization) was founded in 1973. Since then, there is one golfer more than 40 wins ahead of anyone else. From 1973 until his final win in 2002, Masashi Ozaki — better-known to most golf fans as Jumbo Ozaki — won a whopping 94 times on the JGTO. Isao Aoki is the distant runner-up, the only other golfer so far to crack 50 wins on this tour.

All three of the Ozaki brothers show up on the following list. Joe Ozaki scored 32 wins and Jet Ozaki had 15.

Japan Golf Tour's Career Wins Leaders

All golfers with at least 12 wins are listed.

GolferWinsSpan
Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki941973–2002
Isao Aoki511973–1992
Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima481976–2006
Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki321984–2005
Shingo Katayama311998–2017
Masahiro Kuramoto301980–2003
Teruo Sugihara281973–1990
Yuta Ikeda212009–2019
Graham Marsh201973–1990
Toru Nakamura201973–1992
Toru Taniguchi201998–2018
Hideto Tanihara192003–2023
Hiroyuki Fujita181997–2014
Ryo Ishikawa182007–2022
Toshimitsu Izawa161995–2007
Norio Suzuki161974–1982
Brendan Jones152002–2019
Tateo "Jet" Ozaki151984–2000
Saburo Fujiki141981–1993
David Ishii141985–1994
K.T. Kim142010–2019
Yoshitaka Yamamoto131973–1993
Katsumasa Miyamoto121998–2019
Brian Watts121994–1998

The highest-ranking golfer not from Japan is Australia's Graham Marsh, with 20 wins. The highest-ranking American golfer is David Ishii with 14 wins. Todd Hamilton of the USA just misses making our list with 11 victories.

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Source:
Japan Golf Tour. "Tour Stats," Tour Victory Leaders, https://www.jgto.org/en/stats/tour/champions_ranking?year=2024

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