Brendan Jones seeks rare achievement

IN: News | Japan | Tsuruya Open (2008) | Preview | by Bruce Young | 22 Apr 2008

Australian golfer, Brendan Jones will be aiming for his fourth consecutive Tsuruya Open when he tees it up at the Yamanohara golf Club in Hyogo Prefecture in the south of Honshu this week. Jones has won the event in each of the last three times he has played although that winning streak spans over a periods of four years given that he played the USPGA Tour in 2005.

Brendan Jones

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Jones will join an elite group of players is he is able to do so with only Tiger Woods having achieved such a feat on the PGA Tour since 1930 while Annika Sorenstam (5) and Laura Davies have done so on the LPGA Tour. Others have done so on lesser Tours, including New Zealander John Lister, who won what was effectively an Australasian Tour event in New Zealand in the mid 1970’s.

Jones began his 2008 campaign in Japan last week in Nagoya where he finished a respectable 16th at the Token Homemate Cup.

Position	Score	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	-12	S.K. Ho	70	69	65	68	272
2	-11	Kyung-Tae Kim	69	68	70	66	273
3	-10	Hiroshi Iwata	67	63	73	71	274
T4	-8	Brendan Jones	68	69	71	68	276
T4	-8	Keiichiro Fukabori	70	70	67	69	276
T4	-8	Tadahiro Takayama	69	71	67	69	276
T7	-7	Shingo Katayama	67	68	72	70	277
T7	-7	Toru Taniguchi	71	66	69	71	277
T9	-6	Dinesh Chand	71	72	68	67	278

Position	Score	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
T4	-8	Brendan Jones	68	69	71	68	276
T18	-3	David Smail	72	67	71	71	281
T32	+1	Craig Parry	69	73	73	70	285
Cut +1
CUT	+2	Ben Burge	72	72	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Chris Campbell	76	68	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Steven Conran	70	74	-	-	144
CUT	+3	Craig Jones	77	68	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Paul Sheehan	73	72	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Scott Laycock	72	73	-	-	145
CUT	+4	Ryan Haller	76	70	-	-	146
CUT	+12	Wayne Perske	77	77	-	-	154
CUT	+16	Eddie Lee	77	81	-	-	158

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