Edoardo Molinari wins Dunlop Phoenix title after play-off

The Italian Molinari brothers' success story rolls on.
Edoardo Molinari, the elder of the siblings, beat Robert Karlsson in a play-off to win the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan today, denying last year's European Tour order of merit winner a first victory since an eye injury wrecked his season.
It was Molinari's third win in his last five tournaments.
Karlsson, who missed more than four months with career-threatening retinal problems and failed to qualify for the Dubai World Championship, led by a stroke halfway through the final round of the $2.5 million tournament in Miyazaki.
Overnight leader Molinari made up the deficit over the back nine, however, to finish on 13-under-par and force a play-off which he won at the second hole to join Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington and Ian Poulter - and David Duval, winner in the early 2000s - on the honours role at the Phoenix Country Club.
Swede Karlsson, 40, will be boosted by his performance in Japan as he heads to Shenzhen, China next week to defend the World Cup of Golf title with compatriot Henrik Stenson.
Former U.S. Amateur champion Molinari, whose five previous professional wins came on the European Challenge Tour, will again team up with his younger brother Francesco to represent Italy at Mission Hills.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71)
271 Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 70 66 69 66 (Edoardo Molinari won at second play-off hole), Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 68 68 65
277 Hirofumi Miyase 69 72 69 67, Shane Lowry 73 68 69 67
278 Tadahiro Takayama 69 68 71 70, Eddie Lee (Nzl) 75 69 68 66
279 Ryuichi Oda 68 68 72 71, Daisuke Maruyama 71 70 68 70, Steven Conran (Aus) 69 70 71 69, Shigeki Maruyama 72 70 69 68, Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor) 70 69 69 71, Hiroyuki Fujita 71 72 70 66
280 Michio Matsumura 68 73 68 71, Shingo Katayama 68 70 72 70
281 Kaname Yokoo 70 71 75 65, Masaya Tomida 69 70 70 72, Yudai Maeda 70 65 73 73, Yusaku Miyazato 72 69 71 69, Kenichi Kuboya 65 70 71 75
282 Katsumasa Miyamoto 70 69 69 74, David Smail (Nzl) 71 71 70 70
283 Koumei Oda 70 70 74 69, Ryo Ishikawa 71 70 71 71
284 Hidemasa Hoshino 74 72 70 68, Kiyoshi Miyazato 68 71 73 72, Makoto Inoue 70 74 68 72, Norio Shinozaki 70 74 67 73
285 Akio Sadakata 74 72 68 71, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 72 70 72 71, Satoshi Tomiyama 73 71 70 71
286 Toyokazu Fujishima 72 73 72 69, Shinichi Yokota 70 71 73 72, Toshimitsu Izawa 69 73 71 73, Nobuhiro Masuda 74 69 74 69, Toru Taniguchi 74 69 72 71, Vijay Singh (Fij) 71 71 70 74, Dinesh Chand (Fij) 71 74 69 72, Tatsunori Nukaga 73 72 73 68
287 Sang-moon Bae (Kor) 75 70 71 71, Tetsuji Hiratsuka 69 66 76 76, Taichi Teshima 72 68 72 75, Kazuhiro Yamashita 68 72 74 73, Hiroshi Iwata 70 71 72 74
288 S K Ho (Kor) 70 76 73 69, Shintaro Kai 68 71 73 76
289 Frankie Minoza (Phi) 71 74 71 73, Jason Dufner (USA) 75 70 73 71, Yuta Ikeda 74 72 73 70, Satoru Hirota 72 69 73 75, Mamo Osanai 70 68 72 79, Katsunori Kuwabara 72 70 70 77
290 Tetsuya Haraguchi 71 73 71 75, Han Lee (USA) 70 69 73 78, Wayne Perske (Aus) 72 73 75 70
291 Kunihiro Kamii 76 67 74 74, Naoya Takemoto 72 74 71 74, Yuji Igarashi 71 75 75 70
292 Alex Cejka (Ger) 71 72 75 74
293 Sushi Ishigaki 70 74 73 76, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 72 74 74 73
294 Nobuhito Sato 73 73 75 73
298 Masao Nakajima 72 73 78 75
300 Jun Kikuchi 71 73 76 80