Scott Strange has continued his solid form of 2015 by again finishing leading Australian at the Honma Tourworld Cup in Japan, his 7-under-par total a good warm up for this week’s Japan Open.

Strange is playing just his second full season in Japan and has found his feet in 2015 with just two missed cuts in 12 starts, including two top five finishes.

This week’s Japan Open signals the beginning of a run of the Tour’s most lucrative and prestigious events and Strange, along with his fellow Australians, will be looking for good form in coming weeks.

Rounds of 70-69-68-70 saw Strange finish nine shots behind winner Kyuong Hoon Lee of Korea in a week where he made plenty of birdies but sprinkled in too many mistakes to be at the pointy end of the leader board.

Strange finished T24, two shots ahead of a resurgent David Smail whose final round 66 was one of the best of the day.

For Brendan Jones, who was next best at T36, the putter seems to be the issue, the 13 time Tour winner amassing 34 putts in both the second and final rounds.

While that’s too many at the top level he can take heart from the fact he recorded only four bogies for the week with no three putts, though a four putt double bogey in the first round was disappointing.

Kurt Barnes (T44) was the only other of the Australasians to make the cut with Won Joon Lee and Adam Bland both missing the weekend by a shot and Matthew Griffin and Steven Conran two further back.