JLPGA: 2017 Hokkaido Meiji Cup

RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL
1 Narumi Yamada -5 -5 67 67
2T Haruka Kudo -4 -4 68 68
2T Haruka Morita -4 -4 68 68
4T Shoko Sasaki -3 -3 69 69
4T Shiho Oyama -3 -3 69 69
6T Mami Fukuda -2 -2 70 70
6T Soo-Yun Kang -2 -2 70 70
6T Ji-Hee Lee -2 -2 70 70
6T Saiki Fujita -2 -2 70 70
6T Hikaru Yoshimoto -2 -2 70 70
6T Ritsuko Ryu -2 -2 70 70
6T Aya Tamura -2 -2 70 70
6T Misuzu Narita -2 -2 70 70

Bo Mee Lee(+2) and Yumiko Yoshida(E)


Chae Young Yoon(+3), Kotono Kozuma(+1), and Rumi Yoshiba(+5)


Ha Neul Kim(+1)


Serena Aoki(+2)

Morita birdied the par-5 18th hole to avoid a playoff with SY Kang, who made a couple of crazy putts coming down the stretch.  It's Morita's first win on the JLPGA, but not her first as a pro.  She played a full season on the Symetra Tour in 2015 and picked up one win...she was known as Haruka Morita-WanyaoLu.  An excerpt from the article link below explains her odd name.

www.symetratour.com/news/2015-this-week-morita-wanyaolu

Go back approximately 20 years, before the Chinese-Japanese golfer was even born. Her parents represented China for table tennis in the National Athletic Meet in Japan – her mother as a player and her father as a coach. They opted to remain in Japan, settling eventually in the port city of Takamatsu City, where Haruka was born and learned to play golf. Therefore, the origin of her lengthy name – Haruka Morita is her Japanese name and Wanyao Lu her Chinese moniker. She still plays under the Chinese flag because she cannot become a naturalized Japanese citizen until age 21 even though her first language is Japanese.


RANK PLAYER SCORE 1R 2R 3R TOTAL PRIZE
優勝 Haruka Morita -10 68 71 67 206 ¥16,200,000
2 Soo-Yun Kang -9 70 67 70 207 ¥7,920,000
3 Shoko Sasaki -7 69 70 70 209 ¥6,300,000
4T Mamiko Higa -5 73 69 69 211 ¥4,500,000
4T Ritsuko Ryu -5 70 71 70 211 ¥4,500,000
4T Phoebe Yao -5 72 69 70 211 ¥4,500,000
7T Shiho Toyonaga -4 74 70 68 212 ¥2,314,800
7T Hikaru Yoshimoto -4 70 73 69 212 ¥2,314,800
7T Shiho Oyama -4 69 71 72 212 ¥2,314,800
7T Mi-Jeong Jeon -4 71 69 72 212 ¥2,314,800
7T Narumi Yamada -4 67 72 73 212 ¥2,314,800
12T Sakura Kito -3 74 72 67 213 ¥1,314,000
12T Junko Omote -3 73 72 68 213 ¥1,314,000
12T Jae-Eun Chung -3 73 73 67 213 ¥1,314,000
12T Mami Fukuda -3 70 73 70 213 ¥1,314,000
12T Ji-Hee Lee -3 70 73 70 213 ¥1,314,000
12T Ha-Neul Kim -3 73 70 70 213 ¥1,314,000
12T Rie Tsuji -3 74 69 70 213 ¥1,314,000



Shoko Sasaki and Teresa Lu(-2)


Chie Arimura(+2) and Yuri Fudoh(+7)


Mi Jeong Jeon