Yano wins Bridgestone Open

BY Bruce Young | Japan Tour | 2008 Bridgestone Open | Round Four | 26 Oct 2008

Azuma Yano

Azuma Yano holds the 2008 Bridgestone Open trophy

(Photo: Japan Golf Tour)

Azuma Yano continued what has been a very consistent run of form in recent weeks on the Japan Golf Tour when he won his second event of the season at this week’s Bridgestone Open and in doing so moved to the top of the Japan Golf Tour money list.

Yano took the lead in this event after a second round of 66 moved him three ahead and he never looked back. He led by two over the then money list leader, Shingo Katayama, heading into the final day and eventually won by four over Takao Nogami, with Shigeki Maruyama a further two shots back in third place.

Yano has finished inside the top ten in each of his last eight starts, his consistency rewarded today with his third Japan Golf Tour title.

Nogami who has won just once on the Japan Golf Tour, that coming in 2005, never really threatened the leader but an eagle at his 16th hole assisted him to his second runner up finish of the season.

Maruyama, who has played in Japan in recent weeks after a horror season in the US in 2009, finished third, his best finish anywhere in nearly twelve months. Maruyama has slipped to a lowly 383rd in the World Ranking but this is a positive sign for the three time PGA Tour winner as he rebuilds confidence.

The best of the Australasians were Craig Parry and Scott Laycock who finished 32nd, Wayne Perske and Eddie Lee 57th and Steve Conran 60th.

The Japan Golf Tour will now play the mynavi ABC Championship near Osaka.

Top 10
AUS/NZ

Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-21	Azuma Yano	65	66	69	67	267
2	-17	Takao Nogami	69	70	66	66	271
3	-15	Shigeki Maruyama	66	70	69	68	273
T4	-14	Katsumasa Miyamoto	63	76	65	70	274
T4	-14	Tomohiro Kondo	70	70	65	69	274
T6	-13	Hiroyuki Fujita	68	73	67	67	275
T6	-13	Norio Shinozaki	71	69	67	68	275
T6	-13	Shingo Katayama	69	69	64	73	275
T9	-12	Shintaro Kai	69	69	68	70	276
T9	-12	Yui Ueda	70	72	68	66	276
T9	-12	Yuta Ikeda	66	71	68	71	276
T12	-11	Dong-hwan Lee	71	71	69	66	277
T12	-11	Kaname Yokoo	68	66	72	71	277
T12	-11	Kiyoshi Miyazato	71	70	66	70	277
T12	-11	Ryo Ishikawa	72	71	67	67	277
T12	-11	Taichi Teshima	69	69	69	70	277
T17	-10	Akio Sadakata	71	72	70	65	278
T17	-10	Daisuke Maruyama	71	71	67	69	278
T19	-9	Achi Sato	72	70	69	68	279
T19	-9	Han Lee	71	68	72	68	279
T19	-9	Sushi Ishigaki	70	70	70	69	279
22	-8	Seung Ho Lee	71	72	69	68	280
T23	-7	Koumei Oda	71	70	69	71	281
T23	-7	Tatsuhiko Ichihara	70	71	71	69	281
T23	-7	Toru Taniguchi	71	68	71	71	281
T23	-7	Yasuharu Imano	71	74	70	66	281
T23	-7	Yoshikazu Haku	72	69	68	72	281
T28	-6	Daisuke Kataoka	73	70	69	70	282
T28	-6	Hiroshi Iwata	70	73	68	71	282
T28	-6	Masao Nakajima	69	73	71	69	282
T28	-6	Ryuichi Oda	74	70	69	69	282
T32	-5	Craig Parry	71	71	70	71	283
T32	-5	Fumihiro Ebine	66	74	75	68	283
T32	-5	Jun Kikuchi	68	72	69	74	283
T32	-5	Keiichiro Fukabori	71	68	74	70	283
T32	-5	Kenichi Kuboya	71	71	69	72	283
T32	-5	Mitsuhiro Tateyama	69	69	73	72	283
T32	-5	Nobuhito Sato	68	75	72	68	283
T32	-5	Prom Meesawat	69	70	72	72	283
T32	-5	Scott Laycock	71	71	71	70	283
T32	-5	Toru Suzuki	74	67	73	69	283
T42	-4	Dinesh Chand	70	72	69	73	284
T42	-4	Naomi Ohta	69	72	71	72	284
T42	-4	Takashi Kanemoto	70	75	72	67	284
T42	-4	Toyokazu Hioki	68	72	73	71	284
T46	-3	Hideki Kase	73	72	71	69	285
T46	-3	Hirofumi Miyase	73	71	72	69	285
T46	-3	Katsunori Kuwabara	70	73	70	72	285
T46	-3	Nobuhiro Masuda	72	72	70	71	285
T46	-3	Ryoken Kawagishi	74	70	69	72	285
T46	-3	Tatsuhiko Takahashi	69	74	70	72	285
T52	-2	Keng-chi Lin	72	70	70	74	286
T52	-2	Prayad Marksaeng	73	71	70	72	286
T52	-2	Satoshi Tomiyama	73	72	72	69	286
T52	-2	Toyokazu Fujishima	71	72	72	71	286
T52	-2	Yuki Ishikawa	69	72	71	74	286
T57	-1	Eddie Lee	71	73	72	71	287
T57	-1	Kosei Maeda	70	74	71	72	287
T57	-1	Wayne Perske	72	71	73	71	287
T60	Ev	Gregg Meyer	72	73	73	70	288
T60	Ev	Steven Conran	74	71	74	69	288
T60	Ev	Tetsuya Haraguchi	70	72	74	72	288
63	+1	Yuudai Maeda	74	70	73	72	289
64	+2	Masashi Ozaki	67	76	72	75	290
65	+3	Chawalit Plaphol	69	75	74	73	291
66	+4	Michio Matsumura	74	71	71	76	292
Cut +3
CUT	+2	Hideto Tanihara	70	76	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Ik-je Chang	75	71	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Kazuhiko Hosokawa	70	76	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Kazuhiro Yamashita	74	72	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Masaya Tomida	69	77	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Ryutaro Nagano	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Tadahiro Takayama	71	75	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Taigen Tsumagari	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Toshinori Muto	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Yoshinobu Tsukada	70	76	-	-	146
CUT	+2	Yusaku Miyazato	74	72	-	-	146
CUT	+3	Chris Campbell	75	72	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Satoru Hirota	75	72	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Shinichi Akiba	71	76	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Shinichi Yokota	75	72	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Tadahisa Inoue	73	74	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Takeshi Yasukawa	73	74	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Takuya Saito	72	75	-	-	147
CUT	+3	Tetsuji Hiratsuka	72	75	-	-	147
CUT	+4	Junpei Takayama	74	74	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Makoto Inoue	75	73	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Mamo Osanai	73	75	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Naoya Takemoto	70	78	-	-	148
CUT	+4	Satoshi Higashi	77	71	-	-	148
CUT	+6	Paul Sheehan	72	78	-	-	150
CUT	+7	Bi-O Kim	74	77	-	-	151
CUT	+7	Masafumi Kawase	71	80	-	-	151
CUT	+7	Min-gyu Cho	77	74	-	-	151
CUT	+7	Shoichi Ideguchi	74	77	-	-	151
CUT	+8	Frankie Minoza	81	71	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Keisuke Ootawa	74	78	-	-	152
CUT	+8	Yeh Wei-tze	72	80	-	-	152
CUT	+9	Ben Burge	76	77	-	-	153
CUT	+10	Naoyoshi Minohara	77	77	-	-	154
WD	-	Hisayuki Sasaki	-	-	-	-	WD
WD	-	Takuya Taniguchi	-	-	-	-	WD

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

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