- Shingo Katayama
Shingo Katayama is a Japanese golfer. Katayama was born in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. He turned professional in 1995 and has played full time on the Japan Golf Tour since 1997. He topped the Japan Golf Tour money list four times: 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006. As of the end of the 2006 season, he had won 22 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking seventh on the career wins list and ranked fourth on the career money list with over 1 billion ¥.
- Toru Taniguchi
Toru Taniguchi (born 10 February 1968) is a Japanese golfer. Taniguchi was born in Nara. He was won 13 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour (ranks tied 15th on the career victories list), topped the money list in 2002, and is eighth on the career money list. In 2001, he reached the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Brendan Jones
Brendan Jones (born 3 March 1975) is an Australian golfer. He was born in West Wyalong, New South Wales and turned pro in 1999. He spent several seasons playing on the Japan Golf Tour, where he has won six tournaments. In 2005 he was a member of the PGA Tour, but despite finishing in a tie for second at the B.C. Open he narrowly failed to win enough money to retain his tour card.
- Todd Hamilton
William Todd Hamilton (born October 18, 1965) is an American professional golfer. Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg. He grew up in an even smaller Henderson County town on the Mississippi called Oquawka. He attended Union High School in Biggsville, IL and played golf regularly on the local 9-hole golf course (now an 18 holes), Hend-Co Hills. He went to the University of Oklahoma for college where he continued to play.
- Hideto Tanihara
Hideto Tanihara (born 16 November 1978) is a Japanese golfer. Tanihara was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. He has won four tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour.
- David Smail
David Smail (born May 20, 1970) is a professional golfer. He was born in and resides in Hamilton, New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Open in 2001. He has won five titles in Japan Golf Tour.
- Frankie Minoza
Frankie Minoza (born 29 December 1959) is a golfer from the Philippines. He has won a number of events in Asia outside Japan, but has spent most of his prime, and had his most notable success, on the Japan Golf Tour. In 1998 he featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. In 2005, after losing his Japanese tour card, he joined the Asian Tour for the first time since its formal establishment in 1995.
- Paul Sheehan
Paul Sheehan (born January 26, 1977) is an Australian golfer. Sheehan plays mainly on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Golf Tour. He has three wins in Japan, including the 2006 Japan Open, and one win in Australia. He has featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He is currently competing on the PGA Tour.
- Dean Wilson
Dean Wilson (born December 17, 1969) is an American golfer. Wilson was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii. He turned pro in 1992 after graduating from Brigham Young University and has won six times on the Japan Golf Tour and once on the PGA Tour.
- Toshimitsu Izawa
Toshimitsu Izawa is a Japanese golfer. He is sometimes known outside of Japan as Toshi Izawa. Izawa was born in Kanagawa, attended Nihon Taiiku University, and turned professional in 1989. Izawa's career on the Japan Golf Tour developed quite slowly. His first win came in 1995, and he did not make the top ten on the money list until 1999, when he was thirty one years old. He went on to top the money list in 2001 and 2003.
- Masashi Ozaki
is a Japanese golfer. Ozaki is often known as Jumbo Ozaki on account of his height and length off the tee. He has featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings. Ozaki was born in Kaifu District, Tokushima. He the most successful player of all time on the Japan Golf Tour, having led the money list a record 12 times and won 94 tournaments, more than forty more than the second highest tally.
- Dinesh Chand
Dinesh Chand (born 6 February 1972) is a Fijian golfer who plays mainly in Japan Golf Tour. He has three wins on the Japan Golf Tour.
- Taichi Teshima
Taichi Teshima (born October 16 1968) is a Japanese golfer. Teshima was born in Fukuoka. He has won five tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour. He has featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Hidemasa Hoshino
Hidemasa Hoshino (born 19 September 1977) is a Japanese golfer. Hoshino was born in Miyagi. He has won twice on the Japan Golf Tour. He has featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
- David Ishii
David S. Ishii (born July 26, 1955) is an American golfer of Japanese descent. Ishii grew up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii and graduated from Kauai High School. He turned professional in 1979. He led the money list on the Japan Golf Tour in 1987. He has 14 victories on the Japan Golf Tour (ranks 13th on the career victories list) and is ninth on the career money list. Ishii also won the 1990 Hawaiian Open, a PGA Tour event.
- Liang Wen-Chong
Liang Wen-Chong (born 2 August 1978) is a Chinese golfer. He is the highest ranked golfer from the People's Republic of China and the only Chinese golfer in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. He has succeeded his mentor Zhang Lian-wei as the top Chinese player. Liang plays on the Asian Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. He has won several tournaments in China, but his best finish on the Japan Golf Tour is second.
- Shigeki Maruyama
Shigeki Maruyama (born September 12, 1969) is a Japanese golfer. Maruyama was born in Chiba. He attended Nihon University and turned professional in 1992. He is known for his ever-present smile on the golf course which has given rise to his nickname of the "Smiling Assassin". He began his career on the Japan Golf Tour, quickly becoming one of the leading players on that tour.
- Katsuyoshi Tomori
is a Japanese golfer. Tomori was born in Okinawa Prefecture. He turned professional in 1983. His seven tournament wins on the Japan Golf Tour include the 1994 Mitsubishi Galant Open and the 1995 Japan Matchplay Championship. In 1996, Tomori became the first Japanese professional to enter the European Tour Qualifying School. He was successful and played in Europe for three seasons, making the top 80 on the Order of Merit each time, with a best Order of Merit placing of 47th in 1998.
- Tsukasa Watanabe
Tsukasa Watanabe is a Japanese golfer. Watanabe was born in Tokyo. He played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning twice, and earned over 750,000,000 ¥. He played on the 1994 International Team in the Presidents Cup.
- Masahiro Kuramoto
Masahiro "Massy" Kuramoto is a Japanese golfer. Kuramoto was born in Hiroshima. He turned professional in 1981. He has won 30 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking fifth on the career list. He is also fifth on the career money list with earnings of just under 1 billion ¥. Kuramoto played 65 times on the PGA Tour from 1978 to 1997 (including 21 times in 1993). His best finish was a T-4 at the 1982 British Open (also his best finish in a major championship).
- Ryo Ishikawa
Ryo Ishikawa is a Japanese amateur golfer. On 20 May 2007, Ishikawa became the youngest winner ever of a mens regular tournament on the Japan Golf Tour by winning the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup at the age 15 years and 8 months. He competed as an amateur and it was Ishikawa's first tour appearance. He finished one shot ahead of Japan's 9th top ranked player at the time, Katsumasa Miyamoto.
- Hajime Meshiai
Hajime Meshiai (born on 12 March 1954) is a Japanese golfer. Meshiai was born in Chiba. He turned professional in 1978. He won 11 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour (ranks 18th on the career victories list) and led the money list in 1993. He is 10th on the career money list.
- Isao Aoki
is one of Japan's most successful golfers. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004. Aoki was born in Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He was introduced to golf while caddying at the Abiko Golf Club as a schoolboy. He turn professional in 1964. He went on to win more than fifty events on the Japan Golf Tour between 1972 and 1990, trailing only Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki on the golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins list. He won the Japan Golf Tour money list five times in six years: 1976, 1978, …
- Tadahiro Takayama
Tadahiro Takayama (born 12 February 1978) is a Japanese golfer. Takayama was born in Wakayama. He took up golf at eighteen, an unusually advanced age for a future professional, and turned pro three years later. He made his mark by winning the 2001 PGA Rookie Pro Tournament and has since won twice on the Japan Golf Tour.
- Zhang Lian-Wei
Zhang Lian-Wei (born 2 May 1965; Zhang is his family name) is a Chinese golfer. He was born in Zhuhai in Guangdong Province. He was the first golfer from the People's Republic of China to achieve substantial success on the international professional circuit. The first golf course in the People's Republic of China opened in 1984 and Zhang took up the game soon afterwards.
- Chawalit Plaphol
Chawalit Plaphol (born 30 August 1974) is a Thai golfer. He took up golf at the age of twelve and won team and individual gold medals for Thailand at the 1995 South East Asian Games. He turned professional in 1996 and has been a regular competitor on the Asian Tour since that year. He has won two Asian Tour events and in 2005 he achieved a career best order of merit placing of seventh. He also plays on the Japan Golf Tour, on which he was victorious in the 2004 ANA Open.
- Saburo Fujiki
Saburo Fujiki (born 16 February 1955) is a Japanese golfer. Fujiki was born in Mie. He won 14 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and ranks 13th on the career victories list.
- Katsunari Takahashi
Katsunari Takahashi is a Japanese golfer. Takahashi was born in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. He won 10 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and ranks 24th on the career victories list.
- Toru Nakamura
Toru Nakamura (born 31 October 1950) is a Japanese golfer. Nakamura was born in Osaka. He won 20 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and ranks eighth on the career victories list.
- Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Yoshitaka Yamamoto (born 29 January 1951) is a Japanese golfer. Yamamoto was born in Osaka. He won 13 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and ranks 15th on the career victories list.
- Tze-Chung Chen
Tze-Chung Chen (born June 24 1958) is a Taiwanese golfer. In the U.S., he is often referred to as T.C. Chen. At the 1985 U.S. Open, he scored the first albatross/double-eagle in U.S. Open history and tied the record low scores for the championship at that time after 36 holes (134) and 54 holes (203), but he fell away in the final round and finished tied for second, one shot behind Andy North.
- Teruo Sugihara
Teruo Sugihara is a Japanese golfer. Sugihara was born in Osaka. He won 28 tournaments (ranks sixth) and over 630 million ¥ on the Japan Golf Tour. He also won the 1969 Hong Kong Open.
- Ian Baker-Finch
Ian Michael Baker-Finch (born 24 October 1960) is an Australian professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991. Born in Nambour, Australia. Baker-Finch turned professional in 1979. Baker-Finch credits Jack Nicklaus as his greatest influence, saying that he based his game on NIcklaus's book, "Golf My Way". He began his professional career on the PGA Tour of Australasia, winning his first professional tournament, the New Zealand Open, …
- Carlos Franco
Carlos Franco is a Paraguayan golfer. Franco was born in Asunción, Paraguay. He comes from a poor background and grew up in a one-room, dirt-floor home. His father was a greenkeeper and caddy, and he has five brothers, all of whom became golf professionals. Carlos turned professional in 1986 and has played in many parts of the world. He has won more than twenty tournaments in Latin America, and from 1994 to 1999 he won five times on the Japan Golf Tour.
- Hidemichi Tanaka
Hidemichi Tanaka is a Japanese golfer who plays on the U.S. based PGA Tour. Tanaka was born in Hiroshima. He turned professional in 1991, joined the Japan Golf Tour in 1995 and played mainly on that tour until 2001. He won 10 times on tour (ranks 24th on the career victories list). He earned a PGA Tour card for 2002 at the 2001 Qualifying School, and held his card through 2006 by finishing in the top 125 on the money list each year.
- Charlie Wi
Charlie Wi is (born 3 January 1972) is a South Korean golfer. Wi was born in Seoul. He attended the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and had a successful amateur career. Wi turned professional in 1995. He has played all over the world, competing on the European, Asian and Japanese tours. He played on the PGA Tour in 2005 after successfully navigating through all three stages of 2004 National Qualifying Tournament, …
- Brandt Jobe
Brandt William Jobe (born August 1, 1965) is an American golfer. Jobe was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended UCLA where he was a member of the 1988 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships winning team. He turned professional in 1988. In 1990, Jobe led the order of merit on the Canadian Tour. He won membership of the PGA Tour for 1991 via Qualifying School, but only made five cuts that year.
- Sk Ho
Hur Suk-ho (born 20 August 1973), who is usually known as SK Ho in English, is a South Korean golfer who plays mainly on the Japan Golf Tour. He was born in Seoul. He attended Chae Yoog University and turned pro in 1995. He joined the Japanese Tour in 2001 and has won six tournaments on it. He has made several appearances in major championships and World Golf Championships events.
- Seiji Ebihara
Seiji Ebihara (born on 2 April 1949) is a Japanese golfer. Ebihara was born in Okawa, Japan. He won one tournament on the Japan Golf Tour and had career earnings of over 260 million Yen. He joined the European Seniors Tour in 2000 and has won six tournaments on it. In 2002 he topped the Order of Merit. He played in the UBS Cup in 2002.
- Brian Watts
Brian Peter Watts (born March 18 1966) is an American professional golfer. Watts was born in Montreal, Canada to European parents, but is now a U.S. citizen who lives in Oklahoma.. He played collegiately at Oklahoma State and won the NCAA Division I Championship in 1987. Watts turned professional in 1988. He played mainly on the Japan Golf Tour in the 1990s, where he had 12 victories. However he is best known for his performance at The Open at Royal Birkdale in 1998, …