Yuto Katsuragawa set his sights on a spot on the PGA Tour after claiming a house win on the ISPS Handa Championship in Japan.
The world No 434 began the week largely unknown outdoors of his homeland and it appeared like it might keep that was as he entered the ultimate spherical three pictures off the lead amongst gamers with profitable pedigree on the DP World Tour.
However he discovered himself in a share of prime spot across the flip after selecting up two pictures on the entrance 9 because the leaders faltered and 5 birdies in seven holes from the tenth despatched him hovering to victory.
A closing 63 moved him to 17 underneath, three pictures away from Swede Sebastian Soderberg, and he indicated within the wake of his victory that he would now take up the DP World Tour membership out there to him by way of his win.
He’ll immediately enter the highest 25 on the Race to Dubai, with the highest 10 gamers on the finish of season not already exempt incomes a PGA Tour card, and the 25-year-old was fast to plot his path to the USA.
“I’ve been practising quite a bit to face on the large stage,” he mentioned. “I can now go on the DP World Tour which is basically nice and I am actually pleased with it. I am aiming to develop into a member of the PGA Tour sooner or later.”
He added: “I used to be very nervous on the again 9, my arms had been shaking however I trusted myself and I managed to convey my golf.
“This course is beside Mount Fuji and really lovely however it’s a difficult course and I am glad to win at a difficult course like this.”
Soderberg’s runner-up end after a closing 67 boosted his probabilities of taking part in in subsequent month’s US PGA Championship as he moved to the highest of the DP World Tour’s Asian Swing, with the highest three gamers in these rankings on the finish of subsequent week’s Volvo China Open incomes a spot within the subject at Valhalla.
Northern Eire’s Tom McKibbin completed six pictures off the lead after a closing 65 that began with 5 consecutive birdies.