Tokyo, Japan (SportsNetwork.com) – Katsumasa Miyamoto fired a final-round, 5- under 65 on Sunday and that was good enough to give him a 1-shot victory at the Golf Nippon Series JT Cup.<\/p>\n
Miyamoto, who now has 10 victories on the Japan Golf Tour, finished the week at 9-under-par 271 at Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club.<\/p>\n
It was a strong start for Miyamoto as he began with a birdie at the first. Two holes later, Miyamoto poured in his second gain of the day on the par-4 third, getting him to 2-under. After a pair of pars on four and five, Miyamoto drained his third birdie on the par-5 sixth.<\/p>\n
Miyamoto made the turn with four straight pars from seven before he dropped his first and only shot of the day with a bogey on No. 11. Still, Miyamoto remained strong down the stretch. Back-to-back birdies on 13 and 14 had Miyamoto back in business and he later drained a gain on No. 17, which proved to be the deciding stroke. Miyamoto closed with a par to claim the title.<\/p>\n
Prayad Marksaeng was right behind Miyamoto at 8-under 272 following a 3-under 67 Sunday. Koumei Oda (66), Michio Matsumura (66), Toshinori Muto (70) and Sang-Hee Lee (71) all ended tied for third at 6-under 274.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tokyo, Japan (SportsNetwork.com) – Katsumasa Miyamoto fired a final-round, 5- under 65 on Sunday and that was good enough to give him a 1-shot victory at the Golf Nippon Series JT Cup. Miyamoto, who now has 10 victories on the Japan Golf Tour, finished the week at 9-under-par 271 at Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}