Hoshino's Tokai victory rewards consistency

BY Bruce Young | Japan Tour | 2006 Coca-Cola Tokai Classic | Wrap | 01 Oct 2006

A brilliant final round of 67 has seen the 29-year-old Hidemasa Hoshino win just his second Japan Golf Tour event at this weekend’s Coca Cola Tokai Classic near Nagoya.

Hoshino had started the last round some four shots behind the relatively unheralded Hiroo Kawai but a brilliant stretch of holes early in his back nine saw Hoshino sweep to the lead and then despite a late double bogey he was able to win by two over Katsumasa Miyamoto while five players shared third place two further back. Those in third place were Camilo Villegas, Nobuhiro Masuda, Ryuchi Oda, Shingo Katayama, Jeev Milkha Singh and Hiroo Kawai.

The win took Hoshino into third place on the 2006 money list. While he may not have won since his maiden victory at the Crowns in 2003, Hoshino has become one of the most consistent players on the Japan Tour since. He has not missed a cut in 17 tournaments in 2006 and has been inside the top twenty in eleven of those starts. He had been twice runner up at the recent Sega Sammy and Suntory tournaments.

The demanding layout at the Miyoshi Golf Club’s West Course, where rough was allowed to grow very long and thick, put the quality field to the test and the winning score of 282 was the highest winning total in the history of the event although the par had been reduced to 71 from 72 for this year’s event

Paul Sheehan was the best of the Australians finishing in 26th position while Rich Tate was 53rd.

The Japan Golf Tour now heads to the Kasumigaseki Country Club’s West Course in Saitama for this week’s Japan Open Golf Championship where Shingo Katayama will defend the title he won at the Hirono Golf Club in 2005.

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Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-2	Hidemasa Hoshino	70	73	72	67	282
2	Ev	Katsumasa Miyamoto	70	69	75	70	284
T3	+2	Camilo Villegas	70	69	76	71	286
T3	+2	Hiroo Kawai	71	70	70	75	286
T3	+2	Jeev Milkha Singh	69	72	75	70	286
T3	+2	Nobuhiro Masuda	76	73	71	66	286
T3	+2	Ryuichi Oda	70	73	74	69	286
T3	+2	Shingo Katayama	75	71	68	72	286
9	+3	Kiyoshi Maita	71	74	70	72	287
T10	+4	Yoichi SHIMIZU	73	74	73	68	288
T10	+4	Taichi Teshima	72	74	67	75	288
T10	+4	Tsuyoshi Yoneyama	73	71	72	72	288
T13	+5	I J CHANG	71	67	77	74	289
T13	+5	Dong-hwan Lee	74	70	69	76	289
T13	+5	Tatsuhiko Ichihara	75	71	74	69	289
T16	+6	Gregg Meyer	74	74	74	68	290
T16	+6	Hiroyuki Fujita	73	72	73	72	290
T16	+6	Hisayuki Sasaki	73	74	71	72	290
T16	+6	Katsuya Nakagawa	71	76	73	70	290
T16	+6	Keiichiro Fukabori	74	69	74	73	290
T16	+6	Shigeru Nonaka	71	71	74	74	290
T16	+6	Takuya Taniguchi	73	72	73	72	290
T16	+6	Tatsuhiko Takahashi	72	74	74	70	290
T16	+6	Thammanoon Srirot	70	78	71	71	290
T16	+6	Toshiya Sakakura	72	73	72	73	290
T26	+7	Katsumune Imai	74	72	71	74	291
T26	+7	Masaya Tomida	74	73	73	71	291
T26	+7	Paul Sheehan	73	74	72	72	291
T26	+7	S.k. Ho	74	69	72	76	291
T26	+7	Satoru Hirota	70	71	76	74	291
T26	+7	Takenori Hiraishi	72	73	72	74	291
T32	+8	Hideki Kase	72	73	78	69	292
T32	+8	Ippei Sadanobu	73	74	74	71	292
T32	+8	Kazuhiko Hosokawa	73	72	74	73	292
T32	+8	Prayad Marksaeng	75	73	71	73	292
T32	+8	Yong-eun Yang	73	69	78	72	292
T32	+8	Yuudai Maeda	73	69	71	79	292
T38	+9	Hideto Tanihara	73	74	72	74	293
T38	+9	Junpei Takayama	77	72	70	74	293
40	+10	Nobuhito Sato	68	75	78	73	294
T41	+12	Tetsuhiro Ogawa	75	73	72	76	296
T41	+12	Wen-chong Liang	73	76	74	73	296
T43	+13	Shoichi IDEGUCHI	74	72	76	75	297
T43	+13	Azuma Yano	74	73	76	74	297
T43	+13	Kaname Yokoo	72	72	77	76	297
T43	+13	Kunihiko Masuda	73	73	72	79	297
T43	+13	Mamo Osanai	75	72	76	74	297
T43	+13	Seita Matsumoto	73	73	76	75	297
T49	+14	Masamichi Uehira	74	74	76	74	298
T49	+14	Tadahiro Takayama	74	75	74	75	298
T49	+14	Tatsuya Mitsuhashi	72	77	71	78	298
T52	+15	Hiroshi Iwata	74	74	77	74	299
T52	+15	Rich Tate	72	76	75	76	299
T52	+15	Takeshi Kibamoto	74	75	74	76	299
T55	+16	Soushi Tajima	74	75	75	76	300
T55	+16	Sushi Ishigaki	75	72	77	76	300
T57	+17	Makoto Inoue	74	75	72	80	301
T57	+17	Yoshiaki Mano	75	73	77	76	301
T59	+18	Akinori Tani	75	74	79	74	302
T59	+18	Mitsuhiro Tateyama	72	73	74	83	302
T59	+18	Yasuaki Takashima	74	75	73	80	302
62	+19	Tomokazu Yoshinaga	74	75	77	77	303
63	+22	Hirofumi Miyase	75	73	76	82	306
64	+27	Kentaro Shibata	73	76	80	82	311
Cut +7
CUT	+8	Kouki IDOKI	75	75	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Chawalit Plaphol	72	78	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Dinesh Chand	74	76	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Hidezumi Shirakata	79	71	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Katsunori Kuwabara	76	74	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Masayuki Kawamura	75	75	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Shinichi Akiba	77	73	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Takashi Kanemoto	76	74	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Takeshi Kajikawa	75	75	-	-	150
CUT	+9	Jun KIKUCHI	78	73	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Kazuhiro Fukunaga	76	75	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Kenichi Kuboya	76	75	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Naoya Takemoto	75	76	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Ryuji Masaoka	76	75	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Shinichi Yokota	74	77	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Toyokazu Fujishima	73	78	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Yoshikazu Haku	77	74	-	-	151
CUT	+10	Toshinori MUTO	81	71	-	-	152
CUT	+10	Naoto Nakanishi	78	74	-	-	152
CUT	+10	Nobuo Serizawa	76	76	-	-	152
CUT	+10	Shigemasa Higaki	73	79	-	-	152
CUT	+11	Hiroshi Gohda	78	75	-	-	153
CUT	+11	Kiyoshi Miyazato	75	78	-	-	153
CUT	+11	Mitsuo Harada	73	80	-	-	153
CUT	+11	Riki Ikeda	78	75	-	-	153
CUT	+11	Yoshi Mizumaki	77	76	-	-	153
CUT	+12	Jong Duck Kim	76	78	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Kunihiro Kamii	76	78	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Naoya Sugiyama	82	72	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Norihiko Nakata	75	79	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Toru Suzuki	77	77	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Yoshinobu Tsukada	78	76	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Yui Ueda	82	72	-	-	154
CUT	+12	Yutaka Horinouchi	79	75	-	-	154
CUT	+13	Yusaku Miyazato	77	78	-	-	155
CUT	+14	Kentaro Yamamoto	74	82	-	-	156
CUT	+14	Koumei Oda	80	76	-	-	156
CUT	+14	Masayoshi Yamazoe	83	73	-	-	156
CUT	+14	Toshihiro Aizawa	77	79	-	-	156
CUT	+15	Ryoken Kawagishi	75	82	-	-	157
CUT	+15	Tetsuya Koyama	77	80	-	-	157
CUT	+18	Kazuhiro Shimizu	82	78	-	-	160
CUT	+18	Koji Yamamoto	78	82	-	-	160
CUT	+18	Masataka Hibino	79	81	-	-	160
CUT	+18	Taichiro Kiyota	78	82	-	-	160
CUT	+18	Takao Nogami	82	78	-	-	160
CUT	+19	Tatsuya Tanioka	81	80	-	-	161
CUT	+20	Kenta Nishihara	79	83	-	-	162
CUT	+20	Takahiro Omote	82	80	-	-	162
CUT	+24	Toshikazu Sugihara	76	90	-	-	166
CUT	+25	Nobuaki Kawakita	82	85	-	-	167
CUT	+31	Muneki Miura	91	82	-	-	173
WD	-	Masashi Ozaki	75	-	-	-	WD
WD	-	Tomohiro Kondo	75	-	-	-	WD
WD	-	Wayne Perske	77	-	-	-	WD
WD	-	Tetsuya Haraguchi	79	-	-	-	WD

Position	Score	Player	Country	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total

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