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Jones fires 61 to win as Jeev and Liang tie for third

A costly double bogey finish saw Jeev Milkha Singh of India miss out on a victory at the Golf Nippon JT Series in Japan on Sunday.

Singh, the defending champion, had entered the last round as the leader but failed to hold on to the title as he was overtaken by Australian Brendan Jones, who closed with a sizzling 61 to win by one shot.

Singh finished tied third after signing off with a 68. He had stayed in contention with a run of four birdies from the 13th to 17th holes but carded a five in the par three closing hole.

China’s Liang Wen-chong, who heads to this week’s Volvo Masters of Asia in his bid to secure the Asian Tour’s UBS Order of Merit, enjoyed a tied third finish as well after carding rounds of 67, 73, 65 and 66.

Thailand’s Prayad Marksaeng was joint ninth with cards of 70, 67, 68 and 68 while Frankie Minoza of the Philippines settled for a share of 17th place on 277.

Final round scores (Japan unless stated):

269 Brendan Jones (Aus) 70 70 68 61

270 Toru Taniguchi 69 69 67 65

271 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 68 66 68, David Smail (Nzl) 73 67 66 65, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 67 73 65 66, Hiroshi Iwata 69 69 65 68

272 Koumei Oda 70 71 65 66, Hideto Tanihara 69 71 68 64

273 Hirofumi Miyase 69 68 68 68, Keiichiro Fukabori 70 71 65 67, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 70 67 68 68

274 Tomohiro Kondo 73 69 67 65, Tetsuji Hiratsuka 69 70 72 63, Yusaku Miyazato 71 71 69 63

276 Hiroyuki Fujita 70 70 65 71, Shingo Katayama 66 66 75 69

277 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 72 69 69 67, Satoru Hirota 69 71 71 66

279 Yasuharu Imano 70 69 71 69, Steve Conran (Aus) 71 72 65 71

280 Taichi Teshima 71 70 67 72

283 Norio Shinozaki 72 71 72 68

286 Yui Ueda 72 72 76 66

287 Ryo Ishikawa 69 74 73 71, Jun Kikuchi 71 74 72 70

295 Katsumasa Miyamoto 74 78 69 74

December 3, 2007