Brendan is in Nagoya for this week's Crowns tournament at the Nagoya Golf Club's Wago Course. The event has become almost iconic as far as Japan Golf Tour events are concerned, dating back to 1973 and with an impressive list of winners.

Brendan was happy with the state of his game when he spoke on the eve of the tournament from his hotel in Nagoya. "I'm happy with my game - it feels good now. The course is wet at present but there is no further rain forecast at this stage we should be in for a good week."

Brendan has played the Crowns on seven previous occasions and has a best of 4th there in 2004. 

This will be the last event for Brendan for a few weeks as he will now not play the Japan PGA Championship and instead take a break of three weeks before the Diamond Cup event in the final week of May.

Brendan has an 8.45 tee time on day one.

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