Birdies at his final three holes of today's final round of the Asia Pacific Panasonic Open has seen Brendan finish in a share of 12th position in the inaugural staging of the event near Osaka. 

"The first round (66) was probably a little misleading as my game still needs a lot of work but to have not played a tournament for six or seven weeks and to have done reasonably well is encouraging," said Brendan from Nagoya where he has already arrived for this week's Coca Cola Tokai Classic.

Brendan lost his way a little in the middle of his second round, after what had been a good start that round, when dropping several shots in succession, a stretch that cost him any real chance of contending this week but all in all he was able to remove some of the rust from his game and still produce a good result.

Brendan plays this week's Tokai Classic for just the second occasion having played it first back in 2001.