Golf DP World Tour Katsuragawa Y. Soderberg S. Bezuidenhout C. Cantero I. Kinoshita R. Schneider M. Kawamura M. McKibbin T. Sugiura Y. ISPS HANDA – Championship Handa championship · Thursday · At Gotemba Course · Omitama, Japan · Purse: $2 million · Yardage: 7,; Par: 70 · First Round · Related. DP World Tour ISPS Handa - Championship Scores ; Tomoyo Ikemura, Japan · Sebastian Soderberg, Sweden ; —65 · — Tournament Article. Japanese trio sets early pace. DAY/04/25 (Thu).
Former World No. The tournament was created in and originally intended to be a co-sanctioned European Tour and Japan Golf Tour event. It was to be the first European Tour-sanctioned event to take place in Japan. However, in February , it was announced that the event would proceed as a sole-sanctioned Japan Golf Tour event due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID pandemic.
The Gotemba Course at Taiheiyo Club is a par of 7, yards, originally designed by Shunsuke Kato, which received a Rees Jones and Bryce Swanson renovation in , taking the course from a fairly straightforward par to a more difficult par The parklands track is tree-lined with stunning views of Mount Fuji.
Bunkers and water protect many of the greens, with run-off areas meaning that players who miss the putting surfaces will be presented with different options when trying to get up and down. There are just two par-5s Nos. The sixth and 11th were previously par-5s that have now been converted into long par-4s at and yards, respectively.
He is No. From a traditional stats perspective, we do have some data from the Japan Tour events held here over the relatively recent past:. With a real mix of driving distances from our winners, in regular conditions it would appear that this course holds no major bias for longer hitters. Interestingly though, 4 of winners back to had previously won on this course which would suggest that positive course form is no bad thing:.
A new course for more than two-thirds of the field this week means that this is undoubtedly a riskier event to bet on than some others, however a challenging par 70 that requires some patience will appeal to some more than others. For reference and almost happy coincidence, Lucas Herbert has ranked 59 th heading into this event last year.
At 14 th on the PGA Tour for Scrambling for the season to date, Christiaan can undoubtedly get the ball up and down more than most, and from a variety of positions and lies which will be of use here when greens are inevitably missed. New customers only. Debit cards only.
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Yannik is no slouch around the greens either, despite a relatively low ranking in the early part of — 26 th for Scrambling for the full season is a better measure of his short game in my view. Rounds of 68, 65 and 70 put Haotong in 3 rd heading into Sunday, however with John Catlin lapping the field ahead of him it was another disappointing finish.
I must confess, I know very little about Kazuma Kobori , however his record so far in his short professional career suggests that we may have a superstar on our hands. He comes into this week with the chance to secure an early start to his forthcoming DP World Tour career by winning this week, having already grabbed himself a card for next season courtesy of that hat-trick of wins in January and February.
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Bet restrictions apply. For further details of how Each Way Extra works on golf click here. The number of Each Way Extra places offered on an event can be viewed on the Each Way Extra coupon or on the bet slip as per the example below: Odds above used for illustrative purposes and were correct at BST From a traditional stats perspective, we do have some data from the Japan Tour events held here over the relatively recent past: , Shugo Imahira.
Interestingly though, 4 of winners back to had previously won on this course which would suggest that positive course form is no bad thing: , Shugo Imahira.