Kawazoe wins Hokkaido Open as Japan Tour results confirmed

Yusuke Kawazoe finished the Hokkaido Open at -5 to claim the men’s title at Golf 5 Country Bibai Course in Bibai, Hokkaido, turning a strong start into a result that now matters well beyond one stop on the Japan Tour. The official FIFG leaderboard had already shown Y. Kawazoe at the top at -2 through 18 holes, and the final confirmation left him clear of the field in the JPN 250 event.

That matters because the Hokkaido Open sat inside the Federation for International FootGolf competition structure, where JPN 250 events feed directly into the season-long race. In a tour context, Kawazoe’s finish is the kind of result that builds position and pressure at the same time: it adds a completed win to the 2026 Japan Tour ledger and gives him a benchmark others now have to chase in the next rounds.

The Japan FootGolf Association put the Hokkaido Open on the schedule for August 1-2, 2026, with a 36-hole stroke-play format and men’s and senior categories. By the time the final standings were confirmed, Kawazoe’s -5 had become the number that defined the event, and the men’s board had settled after a day that began with him already leading at the halfway mark of the posted leaderboard.

Hayato Kobayashi won the senior category, giving the Bibai event a second headline winner and showing the depth of the field beyond the men’s title race. That split outcome also underlines how the Japan Tour is developing through its category structure: the same stop can reward a front-running men’s contender and a separate senior champion, while still feeding a single national and international points picture.

For Kawazoe, the value is not just the trophy from Hokkaido. A JPN 250 win at an official FIFG event carries momentum into the next stretch of the season, and a closing -5 is the sort of number that puts a player on the radar in a men’s field that continues to sharpen around every major tour stop.