The Ube Kosan Open was a professional
golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1972 until 2001. It was played at the Ube 72 Country Club near
Ube,
Yamaguchi. It was an event on the
Japan Golf Tour.
In 1976, the Pepsi-Wilson Tournament, as it was then known, set a record for the longest sudden-death playoff in a major men's professional tournament. It took
Peter Thomson fourteen holes to defeat
Graham Marsh,
Brian Jones and
Shozo Miyamoto.[1] This record still stands today.
^Chen won with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
^Thomson won the sudden-death playoff at the 14th extra hole; Miyamoto was eliminated at the first extra hole, and Jones at the fourth.
^Marsh won with a birdie on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff.
References
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ab"Thomson wins 14-hole play-off". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 24 May 1976. p. 13. Retrieved 28 July 2020 – via Google News Archive.
^"Jumbo Ozaki wins Yokohama golf". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. UPI. 30 May 1977. p. 2 (Section3). Retrieved 27 January 2021 – via Newspapers.com.