The World Friendship was a professional golf tournament held in Japan in the early 1970s. The event was held at the Horyuji Country Club in Ikaruga, Nara.[1]
The second tournament was won by Taiwan’s Hsieh Yung-yo,[2] who came from a stroke behind 54-hole leader, New Zealand’s Terry Kendall,[1] to claim first prize.
In its final year, the event was part of the inaugural season of the Japan Golf Tour.[3] Another Taiwanese, Lu Liang-Huan (“Mr. Lu”), won the event. He defeated Australia’s Graham Marsh and Japan’s Isao Aoki in a playoff.[4]
Winners
| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runners-up | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 |  Lu Liang-Huan
|
276 | −12 | Playoff |  Isao Aoki Graham Marsh
|
[3][4] |
| 1972 | Hsieh Yung-yo
|
279 | −9 | 1 stroke |  Terry Kendall Haruo Yasuda
|
[1][2] |
References
- ^ a b c “Kendall Leads Japan Golf”. The New York Times. Associated Press. 4 June 1972. p. S-6. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ a b “Yung-Yo pips Kendall. Yasuda for title”. The Straits Times. Singapore. 5 June 1972. p. 27. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ a b “Laing-Huan Lu – Career Record”. Japan Golf Tour Organization. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ a b “Golf”. The Canberra Times. AAP-Reuter. 4 June 1973. p. 14. Retrieved 18 February 2020.