The Japan Golf Tour begins its 2015 schedule this week when the
traditional season opener – the Token Homemate Cup – is played at the
Token Tado Country Club in Nagoya.
With the loss of next week’s Tsuruya Open from the
schedule, the second event of the season will be the Crowns also in
Nagoya but with a gap of one week between events.
There is then another one week gap before the Japan PGA
Championship although from that point on there is a run of several
consecutive events over the following two months or so.
24 domestic events will be played throughout the season
along with jointly sanctioned events in Malaysia, Indonesia and
Thailand.
This week’s opening event sees 12 Australasians
currently entered, one of the larger contingents of Australasians in
recent times.
Brendan Jones, Brad Kennedy, Kurt Barnes, Matthew
Guyatt, Scott Strange, Matthew Griffin, Steve Conran, Adam Bland, Peter
Wilson, Won Joon Lee and New Zealanders Mike Hendry and David Smail will
tee it up, Jones having won this event in 2012.
For all it will be their first start since the BMW New Zealand Open a month ago.
The leading three money winners on last year’s money
list Koumei Oda, Hiroyuki Fujita and Tomohiro Kondo are scheduled to tee
it up.
Bruce Young
iseekgolf.com
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