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Post by SoYeonFan on May 15, 2017 21:34:58 GMT
05.17~05.21
Previous winner: Sung Hyun Park
Venue: LADANA
Purse 700,000,000
62 Players plus 2 Recommended.
7 Round match play
SBS Broadcast.
12:00 ~1700 Five Rounds
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Post by SoYeonFan on May 15, 2017 21:37:25 GMT
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Post by don on May 15, 2017 21:38:13 GMT
Is there a bracket we can fill out? Maybe Golf Channel is running a contest.
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Post by HappyFan on May 16, 2017 6:04:40 GMT
Picking their opponents. It looks like this is not going to be a true traditional match play format. They have divided the field into 16 groups of four players each. The first three rounds are played in those pods. My guess is that the top player from each group advances into the round of 16. So my guess is that the below picking is just deciding who ends up in the pod with these top players... Jeong Eun Lee 6 vs. Han Sol Ji  Ji Hyun Kim 2 vs. Ran Hong  Ji Hyun Kim 1 vs. Bo Kyung Kim  Ji Hyun Oh vs. So Young Lee  Yoon Ji Cho vs. Min Ji Kim 5  Cecilia Cho vs. So Yeon Park  Seon Woo Bae picked Shi Hyun Ahn  Min Sun Kim 5 vs. Seon Won Park  Hae Rym Kim will take on Jin Joo Hong  Holy Moly! Inbee Park picked... Seon Hwa Lee!!!  |
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Post by HappyFan on May 16, 2017 6:58:39 GMT
Here are the 16 groups of 4 players. Each player will play every other player in her bracket in match play. They get points for wins and ties. The highest total advances (presumably there are tiebreakers).
Group 1:
Inbee Park (1)
Song Yi Ahn (32)
Chae Lin Yang (33)
Seon Hwa Lee (64)
Group 2:
Jin Young Ko (2)
Chae Yoon Park (31)
Eun Bin Lim (34)
Hyun Ji Ryu (63)
Group 3:
Su Yeon Jang (3)
So Yi Kim (30)
Da Ye Na (35)
Eun Soo Jang (62)
Group 4: Tough bracket! All four players have won on the KLPGA
Seung Hyun Lee (4)
Jung Min Lee (29)
Hye Youn Kim (36)
Q Baek (61)
Group 5:
Seon Woo Bae (5)
Shi Hyun Ahn (28)
Hye Jung Choi 2 (37)
Ka Ram Choi (60)
Group 6:
Hae Rym Kim (6)
Jin Joo Hong (27)
Hyo Rin Lee (38)
Eun Woo Choi (59)
Group 7:
Min Sun Kim 5 (7)
Seong Won Park (26)
Yeon Ju Jung (39)
Jung Hwa Lee 2 (58)
Group 8:
Cecilia Cho (8)
So Yeon Park (25)
Min Sung Ha (40)
Ah Lim Kim (57)
Group 9:
Hee Won Jung (9)
Ye Jin Kim (24)
Ji Hyun Lee 2 (41)
Shin Ae Ahn (56)
Group 10:
Yoon Ji Cho (10)
Char Young Kim (23)
Min Ji Kim 5 (42)
Na Lin Ahn (55)
Group 11:
Ji Hyun Oh (11)
So Young Lee (22)
Yuna Park (43)
So Yeon Nam (54)
Group 12:
Ji Hyun Kim (12)
Bo Kyung Kim (21)
Sul Ki Jung (44)
Jung Sun Chun (53)
Group 13:
Ji Hyun Kim 2 (13)
Gyeol Park (20)
Ran Hong (45)
Bobea Kim (52)
Group 14:
Jeong Eun Lee 6 (14)
Han Sol Ji (19)
Hyun Soo Kim (46)
Sung Yeon Yoo (51)
Group 15:
Min Ji Park (R) (15)
Ju Young Park (18)
Sul Ah Yoon (47)
Da Bin Heo (R) (50)
Group 16:
Ji Young Kim 2 (16)
Ji Young Park (17)
Yoon Kyung Heo (48)
Bo Ryung Kim (49)
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Post by HappyFan on May 16, 2017 7:18:01 GMT
A few more pix: Inbee selects another victim: Song Yi Ahn  Jin Young Ko and Seung Hyun Lee  Min Sun Kim waits her turn  Jin Young Ko and top rookie Min Ji Park  Hae Rym Kim and Ji Hyun Oh  Inbee Park and last week's winner Ji Young Kim  Hwaiting!  |
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Post by IceCat on May 16, 2017 9:27:27 GMT
Picking their opponents. It looks like this is not going to be a true traditional match play format. They have divided the field into 16 groups of four players each. The first three rounds are played in those pods. My guess is that the top player from each group advances into the round of 16. What is now the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play adopted this format two years ago in part to ensure that the entire field played at least three matches and to maximize the chances of having more of the top players make the round of 16, since this way a bad round on day one won't be costly provided a player posts good results in the other two pool matches. In pool play one point goes to the winner and halved matches net a half point for each player (they don't play extra holes in pool play). If two or three players in a pool finish on top a sudden death playoff is conducted.
Kevin
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Post by HappyFan on May 16, 2017 17:05:03 GMT
This is not just Inbee's first event in Korea in over a year; this is also her first event in Korea since winning the gold medal and becoming a national hero. It will be interesting to see how she is greeted by the Korean fans.
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Post by philknj on May 16, 2017 17:05:31 GMT
Yes, the five-day round-robin format is definitely better if you can afford NOT to have a pro-am...and the KLPGA has no pro-am this week. I wonder what Doosan coughed up to get Winbee for this one. Could this be a growing trend to bring in foreign tour Sisters to gin up interest? A Japanese article on Sharon includes comments from a veteran Korean photographer regarding the KLPGA being hollowed out with declining galleries, due to the exit of stars to Japan and the U.S. news.golfdigest.co.jp/news/gdoeye/jlpga/article/68693/1/ |
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Post by SoYeonFan on May 16, 2017 17:27:33 GMT
There has been some instability in Korea for a while now.
Now that a lot of questions are beginning to be answered.
Maybe the corporations will pony up more money for the tour.
To try and keep their star players.
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Post by HappyFan on May 16, 2017 17:32:28 GMT
You know, I would expect that the interest in the KLPGA would decrease with so many stars leaving, but every article I have read about it seems to contradict that. Apparently the ratings are still strong and the galleries for the most part still good.
My guess is that the KLPGA tournaments that invite stars like Inbee are trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded field of tournaments. Once upon a time there were only 15-20 events a year, but now they are around 30. A tournament needs a special draw to stand out.
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Post by philknj on May 16, 2017 17:48:09 GMT
My guess is that the KLPGA tournaments that invite stars like Inbee are trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded field of tournaments. Once upon a time there were only 15-20 events a year, but now they are around 30. A tournament needs a special draw to stand out. There should be an expectation that the invitee plays well, too, and is rewarded for that in the future. For instance, Gimmee stunk it up last week and should not be brought back, while Mi Hyang finished 2nd in the 2016 MBN and should be brought back. |
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Post by 18majors on May 16, 2017 17:50:53 GMT
My guess is that the KLPGA tournaments that invite stars like Inbee are trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded field of tournaments. Once upon a time there were only 15-20 events a year, but now they are around 30. A tournament needs a special draw to stand out. There should be an expectation that the invitee plays well, too, and is rewarded for that in the future. For instance, Gimmee stunk it up last week and should not be brought back, while Mi Hyang finished 2nd in the 2016 MBN and should be brought back. Your future bride is the only LPGA player who shined at a KLPGA event. |
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Post by mr3putt on May 16, 2017 20:03:21 GMT
Yes, the five-day round-robin format is definitely better if you can afford NOT to have a pro-am...and the KLPGA has no pro-am this week. I wonder what Doosan coughed up to get Winbee for this one. Could this be a growing trend to bring in foreign tour Sisters to gin up interest? A Japanese article on Sharon includes comments from a veteran Korean photographer regarding the KLPGA being hollowed out with declining galleries, due to the exit of stars to Japan and the U.S.news.golfdigest.co.jp/news/gdoeye/jlpga/article/68693/1/Further proof the Koreans are poor at execution...a golf crazed nation can't set up a tour to retain their BIGGEST stars. Japan 1 Korea 0 |
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Post by SoYeonFan on May 16, 2017 23:56:39 GMT
3putt you do realize that Japan has a lot more corporate money than a divided Korea.
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