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Post by SoYeonFan on Aug 17, 2019 6:07:46 GMT
Things aren't looking good for Bo-Me Lee if the cut is top fifty and ties. She finished tied for fifty four even par. There isn't enough minus one players left to drop to even par.
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Post by philknj on Aug 17, 2019 11:26:28 GMT
The Madness won't let up...attendance was 9,481 on Saturday, about a 56% increase over last year. Some players had to get out of the vehicles and get to the course on foot.
The Fuji TV steam is working well.
RANK PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL 1 Mayu Hamada -10 -2 64 70 134 2T Erika Hara -9 -4 67 68 135 2T Hinako Shibuno -9 -4 67 68 135 4T Minami Katsu -8 -6 70 66 136 4T Ah-Reum Hwang -8 -5 69 67 136 4T Mamiko Higa -8 -5 69 67 136 4T Min-Young Lee -8 -3 67 69 136 8T Seonwoo Bae -7 -3 68 69 137 8T Ritsuko Ryu -7 -2 67 70 137 8T Lala Anai -7 -2 67 70 137 8T Aoi Ohnishi -7 -1 66 71 137 8T Saki Asai -7 -1 66 71 137
The Cause & Effect
Minami Katsu
Ah Reum Hwang and Serena Aoki (-5)
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Post by philknj on Aug 17, 2019 22:08:51 GMT
I corrected the attendance figure in my prior post...had an extra digit by mistake...although they'll probably hit five digits on Sunday.
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Shibuno became acquainted with Japan's Olympics women's golf coach, Michiko Hattori.
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Post by philknj on Aug 18, 2019 1:03:09 GMT
I forgot to mention that the cut was -1 and 52 players made it. Bo Mee Lee, NEC hostess Erina Hara, and Shibuno's best buddy Momoko Osato all missed by one stroke.
Osato will defend her only JLPGA title next week at the CAT Ladies and Shibuno is not in the field. A chump change purse of ¥60,000,000 won't turn her head these days. I wonder if the sponsors have any influence to change her mind...probably not, but it reminds of a similar situation I read regarding Mickey Wright, who won 13 times on the LPGA in 1963. Article and excerpt:
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There are others just as keenly aware of Mickey Wright's importance to the ladies' tour, especially tournament sponsors. In 1963 Mickey rather suddenly decided to take a brief rest from the tour. The sponsors of two tournaments she had planned to skip, in Baltimore and Worcester, Mass., had a simple response to the request that Miss Wright be allowed to stay home for a couple of weeks. "No Mickey Wright, no tournament," they said, creating an impasse that was eventually resolved in the only possible way—she played in both events.
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It's a 3 AM wake-up call for me...I hope it's worth it. I'm in blackout mode for Round Three, but I'm checking out one of the Round two videos on Youtube:
They flashed a stat on Shibuno's yardages at 29:20, which includes a head scratcher:
5 iron - 170 UT 5 - 180 UT 4 - 185 5 wood - 210
Five yards between two utilities? What does she do for a 195 shot?
At 1:16:22, Shibuno's group (w/ Erika Hara and Ritsuko Ryu) arrived at the 1st hole...what a mob scene around the tee and flanking both sides of the fairway.
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Some early Round Three pix:
Chae Young Yoon and Asako Fujimoto
Rumi Yoshiba and JY Shin
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Post by jumpcut on Aug 18, 2019 10:23:54 GMT
Has the clock struck midnight yet for Cinderella? Once again, Shibuno doesn't play for 2nd place. The downside of that is that this time she missed and ended up third.
All she had to do was cozy it up close to the hole on 18 to make it into the playoff, but she blew it past and ended up 3-putting.
The YT replay I caught was ridiculous. Just before the final putts on 18 they showed 20 minutes of Shibuno highlights going back to her early season wins. Thank god for fast forward.
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Post by philknj on Aug 18, 2019 12:04:47 GMT
Has the clock struck midnight yet for Cinderella? Once again, Shibuno doesn't play for 2nd place. The downside of that is that this time she missed and ended up third. All she had to do was cozy it up close to the hole on 18 to make it into the playoff, but she blew it past and ended up 3-putting. The YT replay I caught was ridiculous. Just before the final putts on 18 they showed 20 minutes of Shibuno highlights going back to her early season wins. Thank god for fast forward.
Huh?! The 4 PM (Japan time) "live" stream I watched on Fuji TV had no such "20-minute intermission", even though it was all tape delay (the final group started the day at 8:30 AM). Maybe you watched some sort of edited YouTube posting. If possible, I prefer watching the streams w/ commercials over YT...that way, I can discover stuff like Yamaha releasing a new driver on Sept. 6.
Well, that was not the perfect finish...had two missed putts gone in, we could have had a four-way playoff, instead of two.
RANK PLAYER SCORE 1R 2R 3R TOTAL PRIZE 優勝 Lala Anai -14 67 70 65 202 ¥14,400,000 2 Min-Young Lee -14 67 69 66 202 ¥7,200,000 3T Hinako Shibuno -13 67 68 68 203 ¥5,200,000 3T Mayu Hamada -13 64 70 69 203 ¥5,200,000 5T Jiyai Shin -11 68 72 65 205 ¥3,600,000 5T Momoko Ueda -11 68 71 66 205 ¥3,600,000 7T Sakura Koiwai -10 69 70 67 206 ¥2,600,000 7T Seonwoo Bae -10 68 69 69 206 ¥2,600,000 9T Minami Hiruta -9 69 69 69 207 ¥1,588,800 9T Miki Saiki -9 71 67 69 207 ¥1,588,800 9T Ah-Reum Hwang -9 69 67 71 207 ¥1,588,800 9T Minami Katsu -9 70 66 71 207 ¥1,588,800 9T Erika Hara -9 67 68 72 207 ¥1,588,800
Lala Anai's JLPGA profile says she's a dropout from Nova Southeastern U. - had no idea where that was - looked it up and it's in Florida. It's her 3rd career win and she's having her best season by far.
Yuka Yasuda (right) was low am at -8. I guess Shibuno got a tablet for something.
Full button-down ... I can't figure out theme of it. Beams Golf will get some inquiries Monday morning.
Haruka Morita (-5)
Kana Nagai (-6) and Sky Kim (-7) in her Sunday blues
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Post by jumpcut on Aug 18, 2019 12:23:20 GMT
Has the clock struck midnight yet for Cinderella? Once again, Shibuno doesn't play for 2nd place. The downside of that is that this time she missed and ended up third. All she had to do was cozy it up close to the hole on 18 to make it into the playoff, but she blew it past and ended up 3-putting. The YT replay I caught was ridiculous. Just before the final putts on 18 they showed 20 minutes of Shibuno highlights going back to her early season wins. Thank god for fast forward.
Huh?! The 4 PM (Japan time) "live" stream I watched on Fuji TV had no such "20-minute intermission", even though it was all tape delay (the final group started the day at 8:30 AM). Maybe you watched some sort of edited YouTube posting. If possible, I prefer watching the streams w/ commercials over YT...that way, I can discover stuff like Yamaha releasing a new driver on Sept. 6. I just entered your search string (thx for posting them) and picked one from the many videos that popped up. There were no commercials so I guess it was edited but the play seemed uncut until the "highlights."
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Post by jlpgafan on Aug 18, 2019 19:23:46 GMT
just read a yahoo/japan article that shibuno was so nervous on the 18th green that her hands were trembling, after the round she wanted to cry but refrained due to the crowd... but then went to the locker room with her mother and the tears came out... she really wanted to win this one..
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Post by don on Aug 19, 2019 2:56:35 GMT
Funny the sponsor brought a computer box out for Shibuno to hold. It was the plan if she won, too.
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Post by philknj on Aug 19, 2019 22:53:19 GMT
Funny the sponsor brought a computer box out for Shibuno to hold. It was the plan if she won, too.
I discovered that the tablet was the prize going to the best scoring player who was playing this tournament for the first time. Yeah, should would have gotten it either way.
Shibuno went up two spots to #12 on the RR. She is 16 spots ahead of her closest challenger, Ai Suzuki, for the 2nd spot on Japan's Olympics team. Looking ahead, Shibuno should have no trouble scooping up another ¥16 million to hit her goal of ¥100 million in 2019. Unless her game does a prolonged nose dive, she may be a lock for the Olympics. Even if she doesn't join the LPGA permanently in 2020, she can add a lot of points when she tees it up at the LPGA Buick Shanghai, the Toto Japan, probably one of the early Spring 2020 LPGA Asian events, and two or three of the early 2020 LPGA majors.
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Post by jlpgafan on Aug 20, 2019 1:56:07 GMT
Michiko Hattori the womens coach for the 2020 olympics is a 18 time winner on the jlpga. she won the US Womens Amateur in 1985 at age of 16, then won the stroke play medalist in 1986. She played four years at Univ of Texas with an outstanding collegiate and amateur career before turning pro in japan....
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Post by don on Aug 20, 2019 2:41:48 GMT
Michiko Hattori the womens coach for the 2020 olympics is a 18 time winner on the jlpga. she won the US Womens Amateur in 1985 at age of 16, then won the stroke play medalist in 1986. She played four years at Univ of Texas with an outstanding collegiate and amateur career before turning pro in japan.... The depth of knowledge on this site is astounding.
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