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Molinari edges Karlsson for Dunlop Phoenix

Italy's Edoardo Molinari made it a brilliant three wins in his last five tournaments today when he beat last year's European Tour number one Robert Karlsson in a play-off for the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan.

The pair had tied on 13 under par before Molinari, older brother of the better-known Francesco, sank a four-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole.

The 28-year-old's previous victories came as he won Europe's "second division" Challenge Tour, but all three have counted towards the world rankings as he is now just outside the top 60.

He is also back into the top 10 on the European Ryder Cup world points list.

Karlsson failed to qualify for the Dubai World Championship after a season disrupted by a blister behind a retina. He was out of the game for almost three months.

Joint third were Shane Lowry, who as an amateur won the Irish Open in May, and Japan's Hirofumi Miyase.

Collated final round scores & totals in the Japan Tour Dunlop Phoenix, Phoenix Country Club, Miyazaki, Japan (Japan unless stated, par 71):

271 Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 70 66 69 66 (Edoardo Molinari won at second play-off hole), Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 68 68 65
277 Hirofumi Miyase 69 72 69 67, Shane Lowry 73 68 69 67
278 Tadahiro Takayama 69 68 71 70, Eddie Lee (Nzl) 75 69 68 66
279 Ryuichi Oda 68 68 72 71, Daisuke Maruyama 71 70 68 70, Steven Conran (Aus) 69 70 71 69, Shigeki Maruyama 72 70 69 68, Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor) 70 69 69 71, Hiroyuki Fujita 71 72 70 66
280 Michio Matsumura 68 73 68 71, Shingo Katayama 68 70 72 70
281 Kaname Yokoo 70 71 75 65, Masaya Tomida 69 70 70 72, Yudai Maeda 70 65 73 73, Yusaku Miyazato 72 69 71 69, Kenichi Kuboya 65 70 71 75
282 Katsumasa Miyamoto 70 69 69 74, David Smail (Nzl) 71 71 70 70
283 Koumei Oda 70 70 74 69, Ryo Ishikawa 71 70 71 71
284 Hidemasa Hoshino 74 72 70 68, Kiyoshi Miyazato 68 71 73 72, Makoto Inoue 70 74 68 72, Norio Shinozaki 70 74 67 73
285 Akio Sadakata 74 72 68 71, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 72 70 72 71, Satoshi Tomiyama 73 71 70 71
286 Toyokazu Fujishima 72 73 72 69, Shinichi Yokota 70 71 73 72, Toshimitsu Izawa 69 73 71 73, Nobuhiro Masuda 74 69 74 69, Toru Taniguchi 74 69 72 71, Vijay Singh (Fij) 71 71 70 74, Dinesh Chand (Fij) 71 74 69 72, Tatsunori Nukaga 73 72 73 68
287 Sang-moon Bae (Kor) 75 70 71 71, Tetsuji Hiratsuka 69 66 76 76, Taichi Teshima 72 68 72 75, Kazuhiro Yamashita 68 72 74 73, Hiroshi Iwata 70 71 72 74
288 S K Ho (Kor) 70 76 73 69, Shintaro Kai 68 71 73 76
289 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 71 74 71 73, Jason Dufner (USA) 75 70 73 71, Yuta Ikeda 74 72 73 70, Satoru Hirota 72 69 73 75, Mamo Osanai 70 68 72 79, Katsunori Kuwabara 72 70 70 77
290 Tetsuya Haraguchi 71 73 71 75, Han Lee (USA) 70 69 73 78, Wayne Perske (Aus) 72 73 75 70
291 Kunihiro Kamii 76 67 74 74, Naoya Takemoto 72 74 71 74, Yuji Igarashi 71 75 75 70
292 Alex Cejka (Ger) 71 72 75 74
293 Sushi Ishigaki 70 74 73 76, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 72 74 74 73
294 Nobuhito Sato 73 73 75 73
298 Masao Nakajima 72 73 78 75
300 Jun Kikuchi 71 73 76 80

November 23, 2009