Imano wins last event of 2005 Japan season
BY Bruce Young | Japan Tour | 2005 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup | Wrap | 04 Dec 2005
Yasuharu Imano won the final event of season 2005 on the Japan Golf Tour when he won the Golf Nippon Series JT Cup at the Tokyo Yomiuri Golf Club by two shots over Shinichi Yokota.
For Imano it was his sixth career win and his second of season 2005. It moved the 32-year-old into second place on the Japan Tour money list behind Shingo Katayama.
The event was restricted to twenty seven players from the money list and tournament winners.
Imano grabbed the lead when his third round 63 moved him from tenth to first and although he had an early bogey today, he was always in control of what is effectively the Japan Golf Tour Championship.
Of the Australasians in the field, Chris Campbell completed a fine rookie season in Japan when he finished sixth in this event and 36th on the money list with ¥36 million (A$420,000). Campbell won earlier in the year at the Mizuno Open and his last round 65 today indicates just how far he has come with his game in 2005.
Paul Sheehan followed his runner up placing at the Australian Open with a tenth placed finish while Steve Conran was 16th and David Smail rounded out another good year with a 22nd place finish. Smail was the best of the Australasians on the 2005 money list when finishing 5th with ¥77 million.
The Japan Golf Tour now plays in Okinawa in two weeks time, an event co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour. The event will be the first tournament of the 2006 season for both tours.
