Brendan Jones News

It was Fujimoto's fourth top ten in five starts on the Japan Golf Tour in this his rookie season and moves him to number two on the money list just a few months after turning professional.

The second round of the Japan Tour Championship has been disrupted by weather and not all players have completed 36 holes but it is the 18 year rookie Masahiro Kawamura who leads by two over the event's leading world ranked Kyung Tae Kim.

The Japan Tour plays its Tour Championship this week when the Japan Golf Tour Championship Citibank Cup Shishido Hills event is played at the Shishido Hills Country Club's West Course in Ibaraki Prefecture north east of Tokyo.

Hiroyuki Fujita has won the Diamond Cup Golf event in Chiba Prefecture in Japan after his final round of 73 saw him finish three shots ahead of Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat.

Fujita, chasing his second win of the season to go with his victory at the Tsuruya Open in April, has opened up a three shot lead at the halfway point of the event over last week's Totoumi Hamamatsu winner Jay Choi.

Watch out, Jason Dufner has learned how to win. The 33 year old nabbed his second victory in just three starts when he took out the Byron Nelson Championship with a birdie at the final hole.

Brendan Jones will play his second US Open this June following a successful day at Sectional Qualifying for the event in Japan today.

Choi was there to take advantage of the late stumble by the rookie Fujimoto who appeared to have the title in his safe keeping before two late bogeys cost him dearly.

Australian golfer Brendan Jones, who currently leads the Japan Golf Tour money list in 2012, is well positioned to extend that lead following his opening 36 holes of the Totoumi Hamamatsu Open in Shizuoka Prefecture.

The Totoumi Hamamatsu Open is this week's event on the Japan Golf Tour, the event being played at the Grandee Hamanako Golf Club in Shizuoka Prefecture south of Tokyo.

So tough were the scoring conditions, that over the final 36 holes, of all the players to have made the cut, only one was able to break 70.

Toru Taniguchi, a seventeen time winner on the Japan Golf Tour, has the halfway lead at the Japan PGA Championship at the Karasumayajo Country Club near Utsunomiya north of Tokyo.