As Brendan prepared for this week's Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo tournament in Shizuoka Prefecture on the lower slopes of Mt Fuji, he expressed a little concern regarding a cold he had caught just prior to leaving Canberra. "I think I picked it up on the last night before I left to come up here and it has gotten worse so hopefully it will not get too bad," said Brendan as he looked out of his hotel room on Wednesday morning. "I am not playing the pro am today so will take it easy and hopefully it will be ok."

Brendan is keen to improve his putting this week. "It has been my putting that has held me back from an even better season. I have been experimenting with my posture and stance to see if it that might help. It has felt alright in the past couple of days."

"This is a golf course that I feel I should have played perhaps better on than I have as in many ways it sets up well for me. I have had a couple of top twenties but hopefully I can improve on that this week." 

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