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Post by philknj on Oct 8, 2018 1:05:00 GMT
After taking her lumps in Korea, Teresa Lu returns to Japan to defend her title starting Friday, Oct. 12. Ai Suzuki is healthy enough to tee it up...as of now. I guess Soo Yun Kang will begin the Japanese leg of her retirement tour here, as her name is also in the field. There's a lot of TV for this one, but Saturday and Sunday only.
Regular broadcast on TV Asahi (Japan time):
Round Two, Sat. 2:30 PM Round Three, Sun. 4:00 PM
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They'll have some LIVE coverage at 8 AM thru 1 PM (Japan time) and other miscellaneous coverage...check Youtube using this:
富士通レディース
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Post by awhson on Oct 8, 2018 5:41:18 GMT
Can Teresa repeat? . . .  |
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Post by philknj on Oct 11, 2018 12:25:21 GMT
Wed. and Thu. prep:
Shoko Sasaki and Chae Young Yoon
Serena Aoki and Erina Hara
Kotono Kozuma and Haruka Morita
Big Mama Ahn and Sakura Koiwai
Although she won the 2018 Cat Ladies, Momoko Osato had many poor weeks before and after that. She planned to test new sticks at season end, but moved up her timetable to this week and switched to the latest Bridgestone Tour B XD-3 driver and Bridgestone Tour B X-CB irons.
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Post by philknj on Oct 12, 2018 2:05:37 GMT
Early Round One:
Kotone Hori, Momoka Miura and Akane Iijima
Minami Katsu and Pei Ying Tsai
Jae Eun Chung and Sakura Yokomine
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Post by philknj on Oct 12, 2018 12:13:43 GMT
Maybe SY Kang's retirement kicked in everywhere...she didn't play after being in the field list earlier in the week. She's still on the field list for next week's Nobuta Masters.
RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL 1 Rie Tsuji -5 -5 67 67 2T Mayu Hamada -4 -4 68 68 2T Karen Gondo -4 -4 68 68 2T Momoka Miura -4 -4 68 68 2T Sun-Ju Ahn -4 -4 68 68 6T Kana Mikashima -3 -3 69 69 6T Saki Takeo -3 -3 69 69 6T Kaori Makitani -3 -3 69 69 6T @riri Sadoyama -3 -3 69 69 6T Kana Nagai -3 -3 69 69 6T Phoebe Yao -3 -3 69 69 6T Min-Young Lee -3 -3 69 69
Kotono Kozuma dropped out after nine holes with a left hip pointer
Green Machine Kana Nagai had her first sub-70 round in the last nine weeks
Jae Eun Chung/Rumi Yoshiba (both -1) and Big Mama Ahn/Mamiko Higa (E)
Miyuki Takeuchi (+1)
Phoebe Yao, who'll need a beard and glasses the next time she passes Taipei customs, and Shoko Sasaki (E)
What has happened to Ayaka Matsumori (+8, DFL), who has 17 trunks slams and no top-10 this year...at least baby sis Kyoka (+1) maintained the family honor (although she has 16 trunk slams).
Saki Nagamine (+3) and JY Shin (E)/Min Young Lee
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Post by SoYeonFan on Oct 12, 2018 19:50:58 GMT
Kotone Hori has some catching up to do at plus three.
Not sure what's the cutoff on the tour to retain your card, she is 111 on the money list.
Haven't seen her sister Natsuka name on leaderboards lately.
She is 156 on the money list.
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Post by philknj on Oct 13, 2018 1:25:22 GMT
Kotone Hori has some catching up to do at plus three. Not sure what's the cutoff on the tour to retain your card, she is 111 on the money list. Haven't seen her sister Natsuka name on leaderboards lately. She is 156 on the money list.
The top-50 on the money list get a full ride for the following season's schedule. But, they obviously have a priority list like the LPGA. I recall Akane Iijima saying she would not go to q-school after finishing 54th on the money list in 2017. That didn't prevent her from getting her 28th start this week. Her problem is that she is a bit washed up...just 11 checks cashed this season. Both Horis will definitely have to go to q-school, barring a miracle finish somewhere, to improve their status.
Only 55 minutes for tonight's TV Asahi broadcast. It'll be the usual 85 minutes for Round Three.
Early Round Two (Ayaka Matsumori dropped out with left thumb pain):
Queen Shiho, Ah Reum Hwang and Momoko Osato
Asuka Kashiwabara and Ai Suzuki
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Post by philknj on Oct 13, 2018 12:26:52 GMT
RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL
1T Min-Young Lee -6 -3 69 69 138
1T Sun-Ju Ahn -6 -2 68 70 138
3T Teresa Lu -5 -5 72 67 139
3T Kana Nagai -5 -2 69 70 139
3T Kana Mikashima -5 -2 69 70 139
6T Misuzu Narita -4 -3 71 69 140
6T Mami Fukuda -4 -2 70 70 140
6T Hiroko Azuma -4 -2 70 70 140
6T Karen Gondo -4 0 68 72 140
10T Haruka Morita -3 -3 72 69 141
10T Ah-Reum Hwang -3 -4 73 68 141
10T Megumi Takahashi -3 -2 71 70 141
10T Saiki Fujita -3 -2 71 70 141
10T Yuki Ichinose -3 -2 71 70 141
10T Phoebe Yao -3 0 69 72 141
The broadcast showed replays of past disasters at that diabolical bunker on the front/left of the 18th green...Teresa Lu made bogey at this par-4.
A Kana Nagai win will be worth a 3 AM wake-up call...displays a weird ribbon thing on the back with Min Young Lee
"A famous visitor from The East...the all-omniscient, all-seeing, all-knowing, all-telling, famous seer, sage, soothsayer...Kana the Magnificent"
Weiwei Zhang (MC) and Karis Davidson (-1)
Yuki Ichinose and JY Shin (-2)
Kotone Hori (MC) and Sun Ju Ahn
Eight Head made the cut line at +1
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Post by jumpcut on Oct 13, 2018 15:20:13 GMT
Watch it Weiwei, you're flirting with loss of avatar.
Then again, my avatar is apparently the kiss of death (Kelly Tan, Xiang Sui...) although Solar Lee seems to have turned things around.
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Post by SoYeonFan on Oct 13, 2018 17:40:09 GMT
Goodbye Kotone we hardly knew you.
Unless she improves her game before Q-School.
I will miss her if she doesn't, until she comes back to the tour.
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Post by philknj on Oct 14, 2018 12:27:51 GMT
That broadcast had so many commercials...I'd fall asleep and then my cell phone would wake me up every five minutes and I still missed who won...here's the last round without commercials:
RANK PLAYER SCORE 1R 2R 3R TOTAL PRIZE
優勝 Misuzu Narita -8 71 69 68 208 ¥14,400,000
2 Sun-Ju Ahn -7 68 70 71 209 ¥7,040,000
3T Rei Matsuda -6 72 70 68 210 ¥4,800,000
3T Kana Mikashima -6 69 70 71 210 ¥4,800,000
3T Min-Young Lee -6 69 69 72 210 ¥4,800,000
6T Rumi Yoshiba -5 71 74 66 211 ¥2,253,333
6T Yuki Ichinose -5 71 70 70 211 ¥2,253,333
6T Megumi Takahashi -5 71 70 70 211 ¥2,253,333
6T Haruka Morita -5 72 69 70 211 ¥2,253,333
6T Hiroko Azuma -5 70 70 71 211 ¥2,253,333
6T Kana Nagai -5 69 70 72 211 ¥2,253,333
That's win #11 and she just turned 26...the low am was Yuna Nishimura (-1)
w/ her best buddy Serena Aoki (+3)
It's that bunker at #18 again...Saiki Fujita (-3) made a double there.
Mamiko Higa (+1) had to go sideways.
Yuki Ichinose and Big Mama Ahn
Momoka Miura (+1)
Ah Reum Hwang and Karen Gondo, both -3
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Post by 18majors on Oct 14, 2018 15:21:58 GMT
Misuzu Narita is happy to return from Korea to Japan.
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