Brendan is in Fukuoka in the north of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu for this week's Japan Open Golf Championship and he believes the Koga Golf Club is likely to provide one of the toughest tests ever for the event which starts on Thursday.

"Long rough, tight fairways and treacherous greens suggest it will be very high winning score here this week, said Brendan on Tuesday evening. "The Japan Golf Association often set their golf courses for this event up very tough. So far the weather is good this week but it will need to be as it is going to be tough enough in good weather."

After his brilliant final round of 64 last week, Brendan arrives at this week's event feeling a little better about his game than he had earlier last week as he looks to improve on his previous best at the Japan Open when 4th in 2004.