When Tadahiro Takayama took a glance at the leader board, he has noticed, "all the players on the top portion of the leader board are the ones who finished at the top group a last week".

Katsumasa Miyamoto who unfortunately became a runner-up is solo leader, Asaji Yosuke who was 5th last week sits at 3T. And Tadahiro himself was 3T last week.
"Top group on the leader board is all the players who missed by few shots from winning last week."

Tadahiro is 830,910-yen away from restoring his Tour seed. He says this pressure is haunting him and keeping his motivation for victory week after week is pretty tiring but "I am getting rid of my fatigue with the help of hot springs."

It started to rain from the afternoon, and light misty fog interfered the players to see the clear vision of the course.
Tadahiro suffered serious eye disease back in 2018, then "my sight was blur, it all looked like a filter of water was over what I saw. Balls looked like they were buried on the ground and couldn't see the distances properly. Now my eyesight is fine. But still young one do have many advantages. Including myself, every player who's on the roll now is aiming straight toward the victory. I hope this week is mine."