Katayama moves further ahead in Japan

BY Bruce Young | Japan Tour | 2002 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup | Round Three | 07 Dec 2002

Shingo Katayama is headed for his second victory of the year and the chance to move into third place on the money list on the 2002 Japan Golf Tour, after his third round 66 at the Nippon Series opened up a six shot lead over Jumbo Ozaki. Ozaki’s third round 67 has him at ten under and one shot ahead of Jong-Duck Kim.

David Smail was around in one under 69 today to move to eight under and is alone in fourth place. Brendan Jones is 12th at one under and Terry Price is 19th at two over.

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AUS/NZ

Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-19	Shingo Katayama	62	66	66	67	261
2	-10	David Smail	65	68	69	68	270
3	-9	Masashi Ozaki	62	71	67	71	271
T4	-8	Jong Duck Kim	64	65	72	71	272
T4	-8	Katsunori Kuwabara	68	66	70	68	272
6	-6	Katsumasa Miyamoto	65	71	68	70	274
T7	-4	Hirofumi Miyase	71	67	70	68	276
T7	-4	Hiroyuki Fujita	70	68	70	68	276
T7	-4	Lian-wei Zhang	70	66	67	73	276
T7	-4	Yasuharu Imano	68	73	69	66	276
T11	-3	Kaname Yokoo	68	70	72	67	277
T11	-3	Toru Suzuki	69	74	67	67	277
T13	-2	Brendan Jones	72	69	68	69	278
T13	-2	Nobumitsu Yuhara	67	70	70	71	278
T15	-1	Naomichi Joe Ozaki	67	73	70	69	279
T15	-1	Tommy Nakajima	66	70	71	72	279
T17	Ev	Terry Price	70	72	70	68	280
T17	Ev	Tomohiro Kondo	73	66	70	71	280
T17	Ev	Toshimitsu Izawa	70	68	71	71	280
20	+8	Kiyoshi Murota	69	76	71	72	288

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

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