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Brendan Jones makes it a Tsuruya Open hat-trick

Australian Brendan Jones has fired a three-under-par final round of 68 to claim his third Tsuruya Open in Japan.

The 32-year-old New South Welshman nailed five birdies and two bogeys during his round to hold off a late challenge from Hirofumi Miyase, Masahiro Kuramoto and Takuya Taniguchi who finished in a tie for second place at 14-under-par.

Outright fifth was Katsumasa Miyamoto at 13-under-par, while Tadahiro Takayama and Toru Taniguchi finished two strokes further adrift at 11-under-par.

The victory for Jones was his third Tsuruya Open title having previously been successful in 2004 and 2006. He did not play in 2005, as he was competing on the US PGA Tour.

The victory takes Jones to second on the Japan Tour money list, behind last week's winner Yui Ueda.

Final scores from the Tsuruya Open: (par 71)

-16: Brendan Jones (Australia) 67 65 68 68
-14: Hirofumi Miyase 64 67 74 65, Masahiro Kuramoto 70 68 66 66, Takuya Taniguchi 68 70 65 67
-13: Katsumasa Miyamoto 66 72 68 65
-11: Tadahiro Takayama 69 71 66 67, Toru Taniguchi 68 69 69 67
-10: Kiyoshi Murota 68 69 71 66 Hidemasa Hoshino 69 71 66 68
-9: Dong-Hwan Lee 68 72 69 66
-8: Tetsuji Hiratsuka 72 66 73 65, Kaname Yokoo 69 70 70 67, Naoya Takemoto 67 68 73 68, S K Ho 69 71 68 68, Naomichi Joe Ozaki 68 69 69 70
-7: Tadahisa Inoue 70 70 70 67, Takao Nogami 68 69 69 71
-6: Keizo Yoshida 70 70 71 67, Tetsuya Haraguchi 70 72 67 69, Scott Laycock (Australia) 66 68 71 73

April 23, 2007