Taniguchi claims second Japan Open

BY Bruce Young | Japan Tour | 2007 Japan Open | Round Four | 14 Oct 2007

Toru Taniguchi

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A brilliant final round of 66 at the Japan Open Golf Championship has seen the already dominant player of the 2007 Japan Golf Tour, Toru Taniguchi, extend his lead on the Japan Golf Tour Money list and in doing so win the Japan Open for the second occasion.

Taniguchi started the last round in 6th place and some six shots behind the Koumei Oda.

Oda, who was looking for his first victory, self destructed with a final round of 80 and let the more tournament hardened Tanigichi and Shingo Katayama take control of the tournament.

39-year-old Taniguchi’s outward nine of 31 had him in charge and given his opening round of 75 it was a huge recovery as he stormed past Oda and had the tournament to win or lose by the turn in today’s final round.

Taniguchi would eventually win by two over Shingo Katayama and by three over Keiichiro Fukabori, to claim his 14th Japan Golf Tour title and move to fifth place on the all time Japan Golf Tour moneylist.

The best of the Australasians was previous winner, David Smail who finished in a share of 6th, while Wayne Perske was 18th, Brendan Jones 39th and Craig Parry 48th

The Japan Golf Tour will now play the Bridgestone Open.

Top 10
AUS/NZ

Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-5	Toru Taniguchi	75	70	72	66	283
2	-3	Shingo Katayama	70	71	72	72	285
3	-2	Keiichiro Fukabori	70	74	71	71	286
4	-1	Hiroyuki Fujita	75	71	71	70	287
5	+1	Kaname Yokoo	68	71	76	74	289
T6	+2	David Smail	75	70	75	70	290
T6	+2	Prayad Marksaeng	77	72	73	68	290
8	+3	Koumei Oda	71	71	69	80	291
T9	+5	Hideto Tanihara	71	73	75	74	293
T9	+5	Takuya Taniguchi	74	69	76	74	293
T11	+6	Hiroshi Iwata	74	76	73	71	294
T11	+6	Kiyoshi Miyazato	70	73	74	77	294
T11	+6	Tetsuji Hiratsuka	74	73	72	75	294
T11	+6	Tomohiro Kondo	75	76	71	72	294
T15	+7	Hidemasa Hoshino	70	76	75	74	295
T15	+7	Michio Matsumura	72	71	75	77	295
T15	+7	Wen-chong Liang	72	70	79	74	295
T18	+8	Seung-Ho Lee	71	76	74	75	296
T18	+8	Azuma Yano	75	73	77	71	296
T18	+8	Kenichi Kuboya	80	71	75	70	296
T18	+8	Kiyoshi Murota	72	71	74	79	296
T18	+8	Norio Shinozaki	75	70	78	73	296
T18	+8	Taichi Teshima	75	76	72	73	296
T18	+8	Wayne Perske	77	71	77	71	296
T18	+8	Yasuharu Imano	77	71	76	72	296
T18	+8	Yuta Ikeda	71	75	77	73	296
T27	+9	Bi-O Kim	76	74	74	73	297
T27	+9	Katsuya Nakagawa	75	75	73	74	297
T27	+9	Tommy Nakajima	71	75	77	74	297
T27	+9	Toshiya Sakakura	74	73	75	75	297
T27	+9	Toyokazu Fujishima	74	77	75	71	297
T32	+10	Toshinori Muto	77	73	74	74	298
T32	+10	Masamichi Uehira	75	71	75	77	298
T32	+10	Prom Meesawat	76	73	73	76	298
T32	+10	Yoshiaki Mano	74	73	75	76	298
T36	+11	Kentaro Yonekura	72	77	75	75	299
T36	+11	Koji Iwasaki	75	75	74	75	299
T36	+11	Toshimitsu Izawa	74	73	77	75	299
T39	+12	Shunsuke Sonoda	76	72	73	79	300
T39	+12	Brendan Jones	79	72	78	71	300
T39	+12	Hideki Kase	73	76	74	77	300
T39	+12	Jong Duck Kim	78	72	77	73	300
T39	+12	Tadaaki Kimura	75	74	74	77	300
T44	+13	Yuki Usami	74	75	79	73	301
T44	+13	Yusaku Miyazato	71	73	79	78	301
T46	+14	Norihiko Nakata	71	73	82	76	302
T46	+14	Yoshiaki Kimura	76	73	76	77	302
T48	+15	Craig Parry	75	74	75	79	303
T48	+15	Dong-hwan Lee	72	75	80	76	303
T48	+15	Tatsuhiko Takahashi	75	75	75	78	303
T48	+15	Yeh Wei-tze	73	77	78	75	303
T52	+16	Ryutaro Nagano	76	75	77	76	304
T52	+16	Yoshinobu Tsukada	77	72	73	82	304
T52	+16	Yui Ueda	74	70	81	79	304
T55	+18	Hirotaka Fujimoto	76	74	80	76	306
T55	+18	Katsutoshi Kanayama	77	72	79	78	306
T57	+19	Gregg Meyer	75	75	79	78	307
T57	+19	Keizo Yabuuchi	74	76	80	77	307
59	+20	Yu Morimoto	74	75	79	80	308
60	+21	Tatsuhiko Ichihara	73	75	79	82	309
61	+22	Daisuke Kataoka	78	72	82	78	310
62	+24	Mamo Osanai	78	73	78	83	312
63	+28	Koji Yamamoto	77	73	82	84	316
Cut +7
CUT	+8	Jun Kikuchi	77	75	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Yohei Nakamichi	78	74	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Hideto Shigenobu	78	74	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Naoyuki Tamura	73	79	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Ryo Ishikawa	77	75	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Ryuichi Oda	76	76	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Satoru Hirota	78	74	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Tatsuo Takasaki	75	77	-	-	152
CUT	+9	Kouki Idoki	77	76	-	-	153
CUT	+9	Yuto Watanabe	79	74	-	-	153
CUT	+9	Paul Sheehan	76	77	-	-	153
CUT	+9	Yohei Haga	79	74	-	-	153
CUT	+9	Yukiharu Morita	75	78	-	-	153
CUT	+10	Shintaro Kobayashi	79	75	-	-	154
CUT	+10	Katsumasa Miyamoto	76	78	-	-	154
CUT	+10	Naoya Takemoto	74	80	-	-	154
CUT	+10	Takashi Miyoshi	77	77	-	-	154
CUT	+10	Takeru Shibata	73	81	-	-	154
CUT	+10	Tomoyuki Nagai	78	76	-	-	154
CUT	+10	Toshimasa Nakajima	75	79	-	-	154
CUT	+11	Hirofumi Miyase	76	79	-	-	155
CUT	+11	Masaya Tomida	77	78	-	-	155
CUT	+11	Shota Kishimoto	79	76	-	-	155
CUT	+11	Takeaki Koyama	79	76	-	-	155
CUT	+11	Takenori Hiraishi	77	78	-	-	155
CUT	+12	Go Honda	78	78	-	-	156
CUT	+12	Kazuhiro Yamashita	77	79	-	-	156
CUT	+12	Masato Endo	79	77	-	-	156
CUT	+13	Kaneyori Aramoto	81	76	-	-	157
CUT	+13	Nobuhiro Masuda	77	80	-	-	157
CUT	+13	Tadahiro Takayama	77	80	-	-	157
CUT	+13	Yurio Akitomi	75	82	-	-	157
CUT	+14	Kentaro Wada	76	82	-	-	158
CUT	+14	Masayoshi Tanaka	79	79	-	-	158
CUT	+14	Naoto Nakanishi	80	78	-	-	158
CUT	+14	Toru Morita	77	81	-	-	158
CUT	+14	Toru Suzuki	78	80	-	-	158
CUT	+14	Yasuhiro Taguchi	81	77	-	-	158
CUT	+15	Kosaku Makisaka	79	80	-	-	159
CUT	+15	Nagaaki Ito	79	80	-	-	159
CUT	+15	Yasunobu Fukunaga	85	74	-	-	159
CUT	+15	Yuki Ito	82	77	-	-	159
CUT	+16	Yukitoshi Mitsuyama	80	80	-	-	160
CUT	+17	Takashi Miyazaki	81	80	-	-	161
CUT	+17	Motoki Hieda	78	83	-	-	161
CUT	+17	Osamu Yamaguchi	80	81	-	-	161
CUT	+17	Yuji Takagi	81	80	-	-	161
CUT	+18	Noboru Fujiike	81	81	-	-	162
CUT	+18	Dan Maeda	82	80	-	-	162
CUT	+19	Masaru Kato	81	82	-	-	163
CUT	+20	Kazuyuki Omae	85	79	-	-	164
CUT	+22	Hidemichi Tanaka	82	84	-	-	166
CUT	+22	Kimihiro Matsunaga	84	82	-	-	166
CUT	+23	Hiro Aoyama	84	83	-	-	167
WD	-	Yoshikazu Haku	-	-	-	-	WD
WD	-	Nobuhiro Tsujimura	82	-	-	-	WD
WD	-	Masashi Ozaki	74	76	-	-	WD

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

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