JLPGA: 2016 Daio Paper Ellaire Ladies Open

A good article about Bo Mee; written by a Korean in English.
www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2016/11/159_218192.html

With the 20th career win, Lee also received more pleasant news from her country. The KLPGA announced Monday it will grant a permanent seed to Lee as she fulfilled the required minimum 20 wins from among the KLPGA, U.S. LPGA, JLPGA and the Ladies European Tour.

A golf expert said Lee was able to succeed in Japan as she keeps her club shaft as parallel to the ground as possible to hit the ball hard all the time.

Likely the author's 1st language is not English....I found the bold to be confusing.
I think if he said BML's ability to stay down through the ball at and after impact as long as possible assists in preventing her from pulls or slices.

In the article they say the Terminator has an upper cut action...this is nothing unique to LPGA pros....the majority of the LPGA pros have a positive AoA on their driver...creating further carry...therefore further distance.

Wednesday practice:

Bo Mee Lee...it was reported that her website was cyber attacked recently.  I hadn't seen it in a few months, but when I checked it now (leebomee.com), it looks totally different.  It might be a work-in-progress to restore it.


There are a couple of articles on Rikako Morita, whose game has cratered in the last three years.  She's 68th on the money list, but it's the top-50 that gets full playing privileges next season.  Does seven career wins mean nothing?  I guess so...Chie Arimura is in Q-school this year and she has 13 career wins.


Next week's event is a limited field tournament-of-champions, so there's a lot of focus on the top-50 money list this week...a translated article has the word "deathmatch" in it!

Here's #49 thru #52:

49 Hikari Fujita
50 Hiromi Mogi
51 Kotono Kozuma
52 Asako Fujimoto

Is there live stream?

Here's the video streaming schedule at the 1st hole (Japan time):

Friday:

8:00 - 10:45 AM (Live)
12:15 - 3:15 PM (Live)
5:30 - 8:15 PM (Replay)
8:15 - 11:15 PM (Replay)

Saturday:

7:30 - 9:45 AM (Live)
9:30 - 10:30 PM (Replay)

Sunday:

7:30 - 9:45 AM (Live)
7:30 - 9:45 PM (Replay)
9:45 - 11:15 PM (Replay)


The Bing translation identifies the channel as "CS broadcast, tele G +".  At mokodojo.net, there's a channel called "CS-NTV-G+".  I assume this is the right channel...if so, here's the link:

mokodojo.net/KTW.swf?src=http://203.162.76.92:5021/live/207|c03

I hope this is the right channel because the video is 99% perfect...currently showing soccer, United Arab Emirates team vs. somebody.

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Erina Hara birdied her last five holes on the back-nine...currently -6, leads by three shots as she starts the front-nine.

For "the tournament within a tournament", Ritsuko Ryu (-2 thru 11 holes) leads Bo Mee Lee (E thru 10 holes) by two strokes.  BML has ten straight pars.

Sky Kim is grouped with Ryu


Ai Suzuki and Momoko Ueda

Erina Hara is now -8 thru 12 holes, still leads by three shots.

Bo Mee(below) is now one shot behind Ryu...Mi Jeong Jeon is -4 thru 12 holes

RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL
1 Erina Hara -9 -9 63 63
2 Haruka Morita -7 -7 65 65
3T Mi-Jeong Jeon -6 -6 66 66
3T Nana Yamashiro -6 -6 66 66
5T Teresa Lu -5 -5 67 67
5T Erika Kikuchi -5 -5 67 67
5T Ha-Neul Kim -5 -5 67 67
5T Asako Fujimoto -5 -5 67 67
5T Megumi Shimokawa -5 -5 67 67
5T Shiho Oyama -5 -5 67 67
5T Hikari Fujita -5 -5 67 67

Bo Mee Lee and Ritsuko Ryu had 70s.

When it comes to getting a top-50 position on the money list this year, Asako Fujimoto and Hikari Fujita would not be denied during Round One (Fujita has the Japan-only Callaway Big Bertha Beta driver).


Erina Hara's 7 straight birdies was one short of tying the tour record of 8 straight in a round (Shinobu Moromizato, 2011)


Erika Kikuch followed by Sun Ju Ahn(-1)


Shiho Oyama can do the black leggings look as well as anyone.


Ha Neul Kim


Haruka Morita tee shot at par-4 15th hole...this is Ellair GC Matsuyama, about 350 miles SW of Tokyo.