No.2 on the Money Rankings, Ryosuke Kinoshita was eager to fight hard for the Order of Merit race but failed to make the cutline as he finished with Even Par at 86T.

He seemed to have made a good start with birdies on 1st & 5th, but he stumbled big by making 4 bogeys.

"I really wanted to make the cutline, but my shots were really bad, and I couldn't save myself from making bogeys."

Ryosuke has 1,185,564-yen difference between No.1 Money Ranker Chan Kim but couldn't even add 1-yen. Chan has safely moved on to weekend at 28T, and he will be adding more to his earnings.

Now the task for capturing the Order of Merit Champion title for Ryosuke got even tougher, as he must win or become 2nd on the JT Cup to attain it.

"I must take is this bad result and move on. I do have several days before next week's tournament, so I will use these couple of days to refrain on my failure from the last 2 rounds and be ready."