Acom Doubles
Tournament information
LocationNagara, Chiba, Japan
Established1983
Course(s)Chiba Springs Country Club
Par72
Tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
FormatBetter ball (pairs) stroke play
Final year1989
Tournament record score
Aggregate255 Kinya Aoyagi and
Toshiaki Sudo (1989)
To par−33 as above
Final champion
Japan Kinya Aoyagi and Japan Toshiaki Sudo
Location Map
Chiba Springs CC is located in Japan
Chiba Springs CC
Chiba Springs CC
Location in Japan
Chiba Springs CC is located in Chiba Prefecture
Chiba Springs CC
Chiba Springs CC
Location in the Chiba Prefecture

The Acom Doubles, also known as the Acom Team Championship, was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1983 to 1989. A pairs event, it was held on the Tashiro Course at Shigaraki Country Club near Kōka in Shiga Prefecture for five years before moving to Chiba Springs Country Club near Nagara in Chiba Prefecture. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour in its first year.[1]

From 1990, Acom sponsored an individual tournament, the Acom International.

Tournament hosts

Year(s)Host courseLocation
1988–1989Chiba Springs Country ClubNagara, Chiba
1983–1987Shigaraki Country Club (Tashiro Course)Kōka, Shiga

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-upRef.
Acom Team Championship
1989Japan Kinya Aoyagi and
Japan Toshiaki Sudo		255−33Playoff[lower-alpha 1]Australia Roger Mackay and
Australia Wayne Smith		[2]
1988United States Bob Gilder and
United States Doug Tewell		256−321 strokeJapan Takanori Hiraishi and
Japan Masanobu Kimura		[3]
1987Japan Tomohiro Maruyama and
Japan Nobuo Serizawa
1986Japan Satoshi Higashi and
Japan Hajime Meshiai		257−311 strokeAustralia Mike Ferguson and
Australia Brian Jones
Japan Futoshi Irino and
Japan Kazushige Kono
Japan Saburo Fujiki and
Japan Yoshimi Niizeki
Japan Kunio Hihama and
Japan Kenjiro Iwama		[4]
1985Australia Mike Ferguson and
Australia Brian Jones		263−251 stroke[5]
1984Japan Isao Isozaki and
Japan Kosaku Shimada		256−322 strokesUnited States David Ishii and
Japan Nobumitsu Yuhara		[6]
Acom Doubles
1983Taiwan Lu Hsi-chuen and
Taiwan Lu Liang-Huan		261−27Playoff[lower-alpha 2]Japan Hajime Meshiai and
Japan Masashi Ozaki		[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sudo and Aoyagi won with a par on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  2. ↑ Lu and Lu won with a birdie on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff.

References

  1. ↑ "Tour 1983". Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. ↑ "Japanese pair wins title". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Fort Worth, Texas. 6 November 1989. p. 18. Retrieved 1 February 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Tewell and Gilder win Acom event". Hawaii Tribune-Herald. Hilo, Hawaii. AP. 7 November 1988. p. 18. Retrieved 1 February 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ McCormack, Mark H. (1987). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1987. Springwood Books. pp. 271, 486–489. ISBN 0002182572.
  5. ↑ "Australian golfers win doubles tourney". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. AP. 29 July 1985. p. 4-F. Retrieved 1 February 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ McCormack, Mark H. (1985). Ebel World of Professional Golf 1985. Springwood Books. pp. 237, 475. ISBN 0862541247.
  7. ↑ "Taiwanese duo win Acom Doubles tourney". Singapore Monitor. 22 August 1983. p. 35. Retrieved 1 February 2021 – via National Library Board (Singapore).


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