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Post by philknj on Jul 31, 2018 15:08:44 GMT
Haruka Morita will defend her title starting on Friday, Aug. 3. The regular broadcast for Round Three will be Sunday at 4:05 PM (Japan time) here:
The regular broadcast for Rounds One & Two will probably be on Youtube via this search string:
北海道 ｍｅｉｊｉ カップ
You can do the same search for the LIVE 1st hole streaming (Japan time):
Round 2 - Sat. 7 AM
Round 3 - Sun. 7:30 AM
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Post by jlpgafan on Jul 31, 2018 23:25:51 GMT
my understanding is that by winning the pro-test tournament USA.Hawaii's Eimi(Amy) Koga will get to compete in the rest of the Jlpga schedule this year starting with this tournament, except for the few majors... the other 20 players will have partial exemption i assume, based on their tournament ranking... Another note is that the 2nd place winner was also from the USA,Hawaii, Kacie(Casey) Komoto born in honolulu, attended nortwestern. It appears Eimi Koga attended univ of washington and is now at univ of hawaii. as far as i know, these two are the only players from the USA currently on the main jlpga tour. a couple of instagram photos: http://instagr.am/p/BlyiR_uAS_n http://instagr.am/p/Blz4M_SAR52 |
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Post by philknj on Aug 1, 2018 1:29:08 GMT
Kacie Komoto is in my memory banks from the 2016 USWA...she looked like a Mini-Me version of Yumiko Yoshida and she was playing PXG gear. She successfully negotiated a nine-way playoff for the last five spots into the match play rounds. Her reward was getting squashed by Hye Jin Choi in the first round.
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Post by philknj on Aug 2, 2018 0:49:41 GMT
Early Thursday AM prep:
Hikari Fujita will be making her 10th start on the big tour in 2018 and has only a T-57 to show for her efforts.
Bo Mee Lee and Haruka Morita
Erina Hara and Megumi Kido
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At the Wed. night party, the photo collections below showed the ladies displaying the goodies of Meiji, a snack food company in Japan. The first set includes Yuting Seki (5th picture), who is making her 2018 debut on Japan's big tour...she has made three of four cuts on the Step Up tour. The second set includes a player I never heard of before, Yu Yonezawa (3rd picture). At age 29, she's a Step Up tour lifer, but has achieved a little bit of traction on that tour in 2018...this is her second start on the big tour this season.
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Post by jlpgafan on Aug 2, 2018 2:04:43 GMT
Hikari Fujita had left elbow surgery (i think january of this year). she has a whole series of articles about her life off and on the golf course in the Alba website called "Mind Travel" named for an album by one of her and also my favorite rock singers, Shiho Ochi (aka Superfly). She has been one of my fav players after she won the fujisankei tournament few a few years back by making a 20ft putt on the last hole of a playoff, her only win on tour.
i hope she can get back playing at the top of the leaderboard.
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Post by philknj on Aug 2, 2018 12:17:16 GMT
Momoka Miura
Sakura Koiwai
Minami Katsu
Ha Neul Kim
Eimi Koga
Koga is gaming Takumi Japan TS Pro wedges from Kyoei Golf
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Post by philknj on Aug 3, 2018 10:49:16 GMT
RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL 1 Jiyai Shin -6 -6 66 66 2T Miki Sakai -3 -3 69 69 2T Yuki Ichinose -3 -3 69 69 2T Miyuki Takeuchi -3 -3 69 69 2T Chae-Young Yoon -3 -3 69 69 2T Saiki Fujita -3 -3 69 69 2T Asako Fujimoto -3 -3 69 69 2T Miki Saiki -3 -3 69 69 2T Mami Fukuda -3 -3 69 69 2T Saki Nagamine -3 -3 69 69 2T Serena Aoki -3 -3 69 69
It looks like Bo Mee Lee's recent illness aged her...+2
Chie Arimura (E)
JY Shin
Ah Reum Hwang (+2)
Serena Aoki and Pei Ying Tsai (E)
Kana Nagai (+2), Ting Ting (+3) and Rumi Yoshiba (+4)
It appears that Saiki Fujita switched out her Jean Baptiste driver for a Ping...it's too bad Kotone Hori (+3) can't switch out her whole game
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 3, 2018 16:27:41 GMT
Way to go so far, Jiyai. Wish you were at the British!
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Post by SoYeonFan on Aug 3, 2018 16:59:28 GMT
Ayaka Watanabe started with a double and triple bogey the first two holes.
However she hung in there and finished plus four.
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Post by philknj on Aug 4, 2018 0:57:20 GMT
No luck finding a live Youtube link for the 1st hole tee offs...maybe it will be posted later...the regular Round One broadcast was posted a few hours after play finished.
Karis Davidson (-3 thru 9 holes) and Pei Ying Tsai (-3 thru 7 holes) have the best starts so far for Round Two.
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Post by philknj on Aug 4, 2018 11:00:58 GMT
RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL 1 Mami Fukuda -11 -8 69 64 133 2T Serena Aoki -8 -5 69 67 136 2T Jiyai Shin -8 -2 66 70 136 4 Asako Fujimoto -7 -4 69 68 137 5T Kyoka Matsumori -5 -4 71 68 139 5T Hee-Kyung Bae -5 -4 71 68 139 5T Mio Kotaki -5 -3 70 69 139 5T Chae-Young Yoon -5 -2 69 70 139 9T Miyu Shinkai -4 -4 72 68 140 9T Pei-Ying Tsai -4 -4 72 68 140 9T Sakura Koiwai -4 -6 74 66 140 9T Ji-Hee Lee -4 -4 72 68 140 9T Ritsuko Ryu -4 -3 71 69 140 9T Min-Young Lee -4 -3 71 69 140 9T Haruka Morita -4 -2 70 70 140 9T Shina Kanazawa -4 -2 70 70 140 9T Miki Saiki -4 -1 69 71 140 9T Yuki Ichinose -4 -1 69 71 140 9T Miki Sakai -4 -1 69 71 140
Another excellent tournament for Eight Head, but she can't catch a break for her first win...trails JY Shin by 3 and Mami Fukuda by 6
BML trunk slammed by one shot...the cut was Even
Sky Kim (-1)
Ayaka Matsumori (MC)
Erika Kikuchi (-1) and a rare start on the big tour for her older sis Asami, who washed out again.
China's Team Mediheal, Weiwei Zhang and Ting Ting, bombed out, while Kana Nagai shot 67 to finish -3.
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Post by philknj on Aug 5, 2018 14:06:00 GMT
I didn't watch Round Three...will have to catch a Youtube replay later.
RANK PLAYER SCORE 1R 2R 3R TOTAL PRIZE
優勝 Mami Fukuda -15 69 64 68 201 ¥16,200,000
2 Jiyai Shin -13 66 70 67 203 ¥7,920,000
3 Serena Aoki -12 69 67 68 204 ¥6,300,000
4T Kumiko Kaneda -9 73 69 65 207 ¥4,950,000
4T Asako Fujimoto -9 69 68 70 207 ¥4,950,000
6 Chae-Young Yoon -8 69 70 69 208 ¥3,600,000
7 Lala Anai -7 72 69 68 209 ¥3,150,000
8T Min-Young Lee -6 71 69 70 210 ¥2,475,000
8T Hee-Kyung Bae -6 71 68 71 210 ¥2,475,000
10T Saiki Fujita -5 69 72 70 211 ¥1,658,250
10T Kana Nagai -5 74 67 70 211 ¥1,658,250
10T Erina Hara -5 71 73 67 211 ¥1,658,250
10T Ji-Hee Lee -5 72 68 71 211 ¥1,658,250
Saiki Fujita
Chie Arimura (-1)
Ha Neul Kim (-2) and Jae Eun Chung (+1)
MIn Young Lee and Serena Aoki
Miyuki Takeuchi (+2), Ah Reum Hwang (-1) and Kyoka Matsumori (-1)
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Post by SoYeonFan on Aug 5, 2018 21:13:38 GMT
I wonder what happened to Ai Suzuki.
Her name was on the Ricoh British Open early list.
But didn't play.
She didn't play in this tournament either.
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Post by verdantgarden on Aug 7, 2018 3:20:04 GMT
I wonder what happened to Ai Suzuki. Her name was on the Ricoh British Open early list. But didn't play. She didn't play in this tournament either. I'm sure I saw her name listed on the Japanese team for the International Crown. |
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 7, 2018 5:05:43 GMT
Bo Mee doesn't look healthy. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the usual pizzazz is not there.
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