# Descente Classic

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Professional golf tournament

Golf tournament

Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup Tournament information Location Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan Established 1992 Course(s) Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course) Par 72 Length 6,796 yards (6,214 m) Tour Japan Golf Tour Format Stroke play Prize fund ¥90,000,000 Month played April Final year 1999 Tournament record score Aggregate 270 Peter Teravainen (1997) To par −17 Dinesh Chand (1998) Final champion Masayuki Kawamura Location map Taiheiyo Club Location in Japan Show map of Japan Taiheiyo Club Location in the Shizuoka Prefecture Show map of Shizuoka Prefecture

The **Descente Classic** was a professional [golf](/source/Golf) tournament on the [Japan Golf Tour](/source/Japan_Golf_Tour). Founded in 1992 by sponsors [Descente](/source/Descente), it was renamed the **Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup** in 1995 and played until 1999, after which it was merged with the [KSB Open](/source/KSB_Open) to create the [Munsingwear Open KSB Cup](/source/Munsingwear_Open_KSB_Cup).

## Tournament hosts

Year(s) Host course Location 1998–1999 Taiheiyo Club (Ichihara Course) Ichihara, Chiba 1996–1997 Edosaki Country Club Inashiki, Ibaraki 1993–1995 Century Miki Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo 1992 Century Yokawa Golf Club Miki, Hyōgo

## Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of victory Runner(s)-up Descente Classic Munsingwear Cup 1999 Masayuki Kawamura 205[a] −11 Playoff Kazuhiko Hosokawa Tsuyoshi Yoneyama 1998 Dinesh Chand 271 −17 2 strokes Carlos Franco Hidemichi Tanaka 1997 Peter Teravainen 270 −14 2 strokes Todd Hamilton 1996 Masanobu Kimura 273 −11 2 strokes Hideyuki Sato 1995 Satoshi Higashi 282 −6 1 stroke Katsuyoshi Tomori Descente Classic 1994 Brian Watts 280 −8 3 strokes Hisao Inoue Hideki Kase Frankie Miñoza Tsukasa Watanabe 1993 Tetsu Nishikawa 281 −7 2 strokes Shigenori Mori Tsuyoshi Yoneyama 1992 Yoshinori Kaneko 279 −9 2 strokes Masanobu Kimura

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Shortened to 54 holes due to weather.

## References

## External links

- [Coverage on Japan Golf Tour's official site](https://www.jgto.org/pc/TourChampionsEng.do?year=2008&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=4)

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