Juvic Pagunsan and Justin delos Santos will try to ride on the crest of their impressive showing the previous weeks when the Casio World Open Golf kicks off Thursday at the Kochi Kuroshio Country Club.

The Filipino top campaigners in the Japan Tour are hoping to grab a large share of the 200 million yen total prize (approximately P74.6 million).

And they got good reasons to expect the best after Pagunsan finished tied for 31st last week in the Dunlop Phoenix.

Pagunsan was tied for fifth with one round left before he bombed with a five-over-par 76. Still, he pocketed 1.24 million yen or P460,000.

On the other hand, Delos Santos was T6 two weeks ago at the Mitsui Sumitomo Visa.

Pagunsan fires off a 9 a.m. along with Tomoyasu Sugiyama and Yosuke Asaji, while Delos Santos tees off 10:10 a.m. with Shintaro Kobayashi and Shunya Takeyasu.