Brad Kennedy – photo Japan Tour
Australian Brad Kennedy has finished 8th in the Japan Tour’s season ending Golf Nippon Series event in Tokyo and has finished the season in 16th place on the Japan Tour money list and as the leading Australian ahead of Anthony Quayle who finished 19th.
Kennedy earned the equivalent of A$560,000 in his 19 starts this season, recording seven top tens during that time.
Kennedy shot his worst score of the week yesterday, a 71, to slip six rungs to tied eighth on 272.
Another two internationals in the 30-man field this week, Anthony Quayle and American Todd Baek shot 66 and 71 to be tied for 18th and 27th respectively.
American Chan Kim narrowly missed out on a final-hole birdie to force a playoff as Hideto Tanihara surprised himself by overturning a four-shot deficit to end his 12-month winless run on JGTO with a successful defence of his Golf Nippon Series JT Cup on Sunday.
Tanihara, 44, carded five birdies to close with a five-under-par 65 at the Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club for a winning total of 12-under-par 268 which was good enough for him to hold off Kim, Hiroshi Iwata and Daijiro Izumida for a one-shot victory.
