Ono and his playing partner Torakichi Nakamura were hosts at the event, held at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Japan.

[3] The American sportswriter Herbert Warren Wind, writing in Sports Illustrated, compared it to Francis Ouimet's famous upset victory at the 1913 U.S.

[2] The event was widely televised in Japan and helped spur a golfing boom in the country.

[4] This good play helped Ono and Nakamura receive special foreign invitations to the 1958 Masters Tournament.

Ono continued to play well throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, winning the Kanto Pro Championship an additional four times.