Date: November 09, 2008
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Ho claims The Championship

Korean S.K. Ho has streaked away to take out the The Championship by Lexus at the Otone Country Club in Japan on Sunday by a commanding five-stroke margin. Ho finished the tournament on 15-under-par ahead of second-placed local favourite Kiyoshi Miyazato whose fourth-round 68 took him to a score of 10-under. Australian Wayne Perske ended up seven strokes adrift of Ho in a share of third position on eight-under-par with American Brandt Jobe. New Zealander David Smail was tied in eighth spot after his four rounds on four-under while fellow Kiwi Eddie Lee and Perske&aposs compatriot Steve Conran finished a stroke further back on three-under in equal 13th position. Craig Parry was the next-best Aussie on even par in equal 25th spot.