JLPGA: 2017 Yamaha Ladies Open Katsuragi

Team Yamaha in the house:

The webcam is still following Sky's group...teed off at #7 with two holes left to play. 

SY Kang and CY Yoon

Big galleries for a Thursday...the course is about 100 miles SW of Tokyo and 50 miles east of Nagoya.

Video of Sky's grouping teeing off at #10:



All Sky highlight reel, including the ball she rinsed at the par-5 7th:



Youtube has many more videos from this event at this ID:  Teletech LIVE


RANK PLAYER SCORE HOLE TODAY 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL
1T Jiyai Shin -4 *F -4 68 68
1T Ayaka Watanabe -4 *F -4 68 68
3T Saiki Fujita -3 F -3 69 69
3T Hee-Kyung Bae -3 *F -3 69 69
5T Saki Nagamine -2 F -2 70 70
5T Misuzu Narita -2 *F -2 70 70
7T Teresa Lu -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Shiho Oyama -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Mamiko Higa -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Maiko Wakabayashi -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Erina Hara -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Ayaka Matsumori -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Hikari Fujita -1 F -1 71 71
7T Megumi Kido -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Fumika Kawagishi -1 F -1 71 71
7T Aoi Ohnishi -1 *F -1 71 71
7T Min-Young Lee -1 *F -1 71 71

Momoko Ueda(+1) and Kaori Ohe(E)


Yuting Seki(+1) and the bag of Narumi Uetake...cannot ID those irons.


Ha Neul Kim(+2)

The webcam is working great.  They just showed the Sky Kim/Watanabe/Ohe putt out the 3rd hole...now showing the next group at #3.  I assume they plan to catch up with Ha Neul Kim's group later as Watanabe is in the lead.

Good start by Min Young Lee (71-70)...bad start for Yumiko Yoshida (+6 overall thru three holes)

I left the webcam running overnight...and they were still playing when I woke up.  Water was collecting on the 18th fairway.  Does water cause lip-out putts?  I saw a lot of those.  Apparently I missed Big Mama Ahn destroy the joint.  I think top-60 is the cut (+6).

RANK PLAYER SCORE HOLE TODAY 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL
1 Sun-Ju Ahn -7 F -8 73 64 137
2 Ayaka Watanabe -4 F 0 68 72 140
3 Min-Young Lee -3 F -2 71 70 141
4 Mamiko Higa -2 F -1 71 71 142
5T Saiki Fujita -1 *F +2 69 74 143
5T Teresa Lu -1 F 0 71 72 143
5T Saki Nagamine -1 *F +1 70 73 143
5T Ai Suzuki -1 F -2 73 70 143
5T Fumika Kawagishi -1 *F 0 71 72 143
10T Yoko Maeda +1 *F +1 72 73 145
10T Eri Okayama +1 *F 0 73 72 145
10T Momoko Ueda +1 F 0 73 72 145
10T Rie Tsuji +1 *F -1 74 71 145
10T Hee-Kyung Bae +1 F +4 69 76 145

Ahn, who had eagle-2 at the par-4 8th, and Shiho Oyama(+2)


Mi Jeong Jeon(+2) and Ha Neul Kim(+5)


Kaori Ohe(+9) blew herself out of the tournament with triples at #2 and #3...Ayaka Matsumori(+5) finished ahead of her sister for once...both will play the weekend.

Same lousy weather...Na Ri Lee and Maiko Wakabayashi

Min Young Lee is a newbie on tour. A multiple winner on the KLPGA, you may recall she recovered from a cancer scare that kept her out of action for several months about two years ago. Best of luck to her on Sunday!