Tournament article

Golf Nippon Series JT Cup 2020

Final Tournament of Year 2020 will be filled with many irregularities

Defending Champion Ryo Ishikawa
Final tournament of year 2020, Golf Nippon Series JT Cup will be held at Tokyo Yomiuri CC as always but with many irregularities. Only the winners from the season, and top 30 players on the Money Rankings are allowed to be in this prestigious filed. But this year due to the pandemic, so many of the International players are not able to come to Japan, qualification rules were changed.

30 Players in JT Cup 2020
Ryo Ishikawa (Defending Champion, 5th on 2020 Money Rank)
Yuki Inamori (Winner of Japan Open Golf Championship, 3T of Dunlop Phoenix, 1st on Money Rank)
Rikuya Hoshino (Winner of Fuji Sankei Classic, 2nd on Money Rank)
Takumi Kanaya (Winner of Dunlop Phoenix, 3rd on Money Rank)
Jinichiro Kozum (Winner of Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, 4th on Money Rank)
Ryosuke Kinoshita (2nd of Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, 6th on Money Rank)
Hideto Tanihara (2nd of Japan Open Golf Championship, 7th on Money Rank)
Mikumu Horikawa (2nd of Fuji Sankei Classic, 8th of Money Rank)
Tomoharu Otsuki (3rd of Dunlop Phoenix, 9th on Money Rank)
Shugo Imahira (10th on Money Rank)
Hirotaro Naito (3rd of Japan Open Golf Championship, 11th on Money Rank)
Chan Kim (12th on Money Rank)
Tomohiro Ishizaka (2nd of Dunlop Phoenix, 13th on Money Rank)
Ryuko Tokimatsu (3T of Fuji Sankei Classic, 14 th on Money Rank)
Tomoyo Ikemura (16 th on Money Rank)
Hiroshi Iwata (17th on Money Rank)
Kazuki Higa (18th on Money Rank)
Naoto Nakanishi (19th on Money Rank)
Taihei Sato (3T of Fuji Sankei Classic, 20th on Money Rank)
Daijiro Izumida (21st on Money Rank)
Yuta Ikeda (22nd on Money Rank)
Yuwa Kosaihira (23rd on Money Rank)
Todd Baek (24th on Money Rank)
Komei Oda (25th on Money Rank)
Mikiya Autsu (26th on Money Rank)
Gunn Charoenkul (27th on Money Rank)
Hiroyuki Fujita (28th on Money Rank)
Shingo Katayama (29th on Money Rank)
Kodai Ichihara (30th on Money Rank)
Tomoyasu Sugiyama (32nd on Money Rank)

New qualification rules are as follows.
A) Defending Champion of Golf Nippon Series JT Cup
B) Top 3 and ties of the tournaments held in 2020
SMBC Singapore Open, Fuji Sankei Classic, Japan Open Golf Championship,
Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters and Dunlop Phoenix
C) Other spots will be filled accordingly to the Money Rankings of the year 2020 until it reaches up to 30 players.
*All the above qualification applies only to JGTO Tour players. Except amateur wins a tournament.