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1989 PGA of Japan Tour

professional golf tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ115816595 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1989 PGA of Japan Tour was the 17th season of the PGA of Japan Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 1989 season.

Money list

The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Japanese yen.

Japan Challenge Tour

The 1989 Japan Challenge Tour was the fifth season of the Japan Challenge Tour, the official development tour to the PGA of Japan Tour.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 1989 season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1989 PGA of Japan Tour” is professional golf tour. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Japan, Tour and professional, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Japan, Tour and professional is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “professional golf tour” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q115816595. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “1989 PGA of Japan Tour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.