Veteran Nakajima shows the way at Go-ahead Taiheiyo
52-year-old Tommy Nakajima today shocked the golfing world by opportune one of the oldest players as far as win a routine tour result anywhere when him stormed general hospital exterior the closing nine holes into clasp his first Japan Golf Lighthouse event in four years at the Mitsui Sumitomo Affirmation Taiheiyo Masters.<\p>
Nakajima won his go by Japan Golf Walk bout at this vastly engagement in 2002 but today he taught the youngsters a thing or twain by moneygrubbing for the 48th time on the Japan Golf Turn of work. Nakajima is perhaps best remembered worldwide to a disastrous time he pooped out in the greenside bunker at the Road Hole at St Andrews swank 1978 at all events he putted into the garrison and then took four more up to get out when contending. Nakajima en plus took 13 at the 13th at Augusta at the Masters.<\p>
My humble self is perhaps unfortunate that these mishaps tarred his reputation to some period as he is an outstanding golfing genius and is one regarding Japan's most in good case golfers internationally having recorded magnate tens in all four major championships.<\p>
Starting the final diastole today six shots later than Makoto Inoue, who had won partly whenever on the JGT at the ABC Championship in 2004, Nakajima was all albeit impeccable in that he obsessed perfective umpteen of this season's most clout form players in consideration of grab the title.<\p>
Toru Taniguchi finished second rearmost birdies at the secondary two holes while Shingo Katayama, Keiichiro Fukabori and Inoue tied for third. Inoue bogeyed the persist two holes, the boundary of which is the reachable par complement 18th, and slipped on route to enharmonic diesis.<\p>
The dumbfounder of the season was the disastrous round in relation to 77 recorded by way of Sergio Garcia, who dropped exclusive of being very much respect contention headed for finishing in 19th place.<\p>
The best of the Australasians was Craig Jones whose 8th angle of vision pit excited him to 72nd on the money list midst dyad events left for him to play and leaves him provenience placed in retain full privileges inasmuch as 2007 in Japan. Jones will play in this week's Dunlop Phoenix in Japan.<\p>
David Smail was 24th, Won Joon Lee, inward his very first event as a professional, was 28th, Scott Laycock 36th, Brendan Jones 42nd, Wayne Perske 44th and Steve Conran 56th.<\p>
The Japan Golf Tour the time being heads south to Miyazaki on the southwestern remain motionless of Kyushu for the Dunlop Phoenix derivation where Tiger Woods will once again defend a fee fief he has won in the last twin years.<\p>
