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Post by philknj on Nov 15, 2021 12:24:37 GMT
The last gasp for players trying to preserve their playing privileges begins on Thursday ... the cut is top-50 plus ties for a field of 96. Ticket sales were limited to 800 people per day. Next week is the season-ending tour championship with limited field.
Regular TV on Sunday at 3 PM (Japan time) here:
aqstream.com/jp/ntv/NTV
All four rounds will be broadcast, so try this YT search:
第40回大王製紙エリエールレディスオープン
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Post by philknj on Nov 17, 2021 12:27:55 GMT
Tue. & Wed. prep:
A player can avoid Q-school by finishing at least 50th on the Money list or at least 50th on the Points list for the 2020-21 season. Yui is 59 & 50, respectively.
Hee Kyeong Bae/Mone Iname/Chae Young Yoon and Yuri Yoshida/Sakura Koiwai
Pei Ying Tsai and Teresa Lu
 
LPGA Q-Series player Shibuno Fever is skipping next week's tour championship
LPGA Q-Series player Ayaka Furue is not skipping next week's tour championship  |
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Post by philknj on Nov 18, 2021 11:05:03 GMT
This one might not last long, but here are the marquis groups beginning the day at the 10th hole ... runs for 45 minutes -
Ah Reum Hwang and MY Lee were DNS.
POS PLAYER SCORE HOLE TODAY 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL
1T Erika Hara -7 *F -7 64 64
1T Asuka Kashiwabara -7 F -7 64 64
1T Nana Yamashiro -7 F -7 64 64
4T Ayaka Watanabe -6 *F -6 65 65
4T Yuna Nishimura -6 *F -6 65 65
4T Yuri Yoshida -6 *F -6 65 65
7T Momoko Ueda -5 *F -5 66 66
7T Ai Suzuki -5 *F -5 66 66
7T Kana Mikashima -5 *F -5 66 66
10T Mami Fukuda -4 F -4 67 67
10T Rie Tsuji -4 F -4 67 67
10T Mayu Hamada -4 *F -4 67 67
10T Karen Tsuruoka -4 F -4 67 67
Mone Iname (-1) and Erika Hara
Ayaka Furue (-2)
Simin Feng (-3) is here?! I didn't know she picked up her first win on Japan's scrub tour in June.
Yui (+2)
Shibuno Fever (-2)
Rie Tsuji
It's this week's turn for Saku-chan (E) to have supercoach back on her bag.
JY Shin (E)
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Post by philknj on Nov 19, 2021 10:50:38 GMT
No bloodbath this week ... the cut was -1 and 58 players made it.
Edited player cams -
Shibuno -
Hara -
Yoshida -
POS PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL
1T Kana Mikashima -12 -7 66 64 130
1T Asuka Kashiwabara -12 -5 64 66 130
3T Ayaka Watanabe -9 -3 65 68 133
3T Erika Hara -9 -2 64 69 133
5T Chae-Young Yoon -8 -5 68 66 134
5T Yuna Nishimura -8 -2 65 69 134
5T Sakura Koiwai -8 -8 71 63 134
8T Hina Arakaki -7 -6 70 65 135
8T Saiki Fujita -7 -4 68 67 135
8T Haruka Morita -7 -6 70 65 135
8T Nana Yamashiro -7 0 64 71 135
8T Momoko Ueda -7 -2 66 69 135
8T Yuri Yoshida -7 -1 65 70 135
Yui (MC) blew it ... there are players behind her on the Points list who made the cut, so retaining her 50th ranking will be difficult. Finishing 51 thru 55 in Points or Money will give you playing privileges during the first half of 2022.
Sakura Koiwai
Yuri Yoshida
Shibuno Fever (-5)
Queen Shiho (-6) was 45th on the Money list coming into this week.
Hina Arakaki ... is it too late? She is 58th in Points and 64th in Money. Yuka Yasuda (MC) is in worse shape on those lists.
Chie Arimura (MC) has to sweat out the weekend ... 48th in Points and 49th in Money
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Post by SoYeonFan on Nov 19, 2021 15:38:37 GMT
Kotone Hori minus two isn't too bad, she has a chance to improve on it.
Yui Kawamoto avoided making any bogeys.
But she could manage only two birdies to miss the cut by one.
If she has to go to Q-School I am sure she will be in the Top Ten.
So either way she will be on the Tour next year.
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Post by philknj on Nov 20, 2021 13:00:35 GMT
This one is NOT over ... although Hara won two Majors in 2020, she still shoots herself in the foot quite often.
The leaders on the last three holes ... Eight Head (in Hara's group) appears at 35:08 ... runs for 51 minutes -
POS PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL
1 Erika Hara -14 -5 64 69 66 199
2T Asuka Kashiwabara -12 0 64 66 71 201
2T Kana Mikashima -12 0 66 64 71 201
4 Ayaka Watanabe -11 -2 65 68 69 202
5T Mao Saigo -10 -5 68 69 66 203
5T Mami Fukuda -10 -4 67 69 67 203
7 Sakura Koiwai -9 -1 71 63 70 204
8T Teresa Lu -8 -5 68 71 66 205
8T Yuri Yoshida -8 -1 65 70 70 205
8T Momoko Ueda -8 -1 66 69 70 205
8T Chae-Young Yoon -8 0 68 66 71 205
Erika Hara
Eight Head
Shibuno Fever (-6)
Kana Mikashima
Mone Inami (-5)
Yuna Nishimura (-7)
Kotone Hori (-1) and Ayaka Watanabe
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Post by philknj on Nov 21, 2021 11:50:34 GMT
I tested the NTV video link a couple of hours ahead of time ... it kept buffering, so I didn't bother getting up for it. Meanwhile, this video might be enough ... two co-leaders starting at the par-5 17th hole:
POS PLAYER SCORE 1R 2R 3R 4R TOTAL PRIZE
1 Erika Hara -17 64 69 66 68 267 ¥18,000,000
2T Ai Suzuki -14 66 71 69 64 270 ¥7,266,666
2T Mami Fukuda -14 67 69 67 67 270 ¥7,266,666
2T Asuka Kashiwabara -14 64 66 71 69 270 ¥7,266,666
5 Kana Mikashima -13 66 64 71 70 271 ¥5,000,000
6 Sayaka Takahashi -12 69 68 69 66 272 ¥4,000,000
7T Eri Okayama -11 68 69 70 66 273 ¥3,250,000
7T Ayako Kimura -11 71 67 69 66 273 ¥3,250,000
9T Nana Suganuma -10 69 68 70 67 274 ¥2,116,666
9T Yuna Nishimura -10 65 69 72 68 274 ¥2,116,666
9T Momoko Ueda -10 66 69 70 69 274 ¥2,116,666
w/ low am Seri Yuasa (-5)
Ai Suzuki went nuts with ten birdies
Mami Fukuda
Sayaka Takahashi and Minami Katsu (-9)
Chae Young Yoon (-9)
Yoo Ritsko (-7) and Shibuno Fever (-9)
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Post by SoYeonFan on Nov 21, 2021 15:54:06 GMT
Good final round by Kotone Hori at minus five.
Checked the Rankings, Kotone Hori is in thirty sixth place.
Yui Kawamoto is fifty third place, will be able to play the first half.
She just need to make cuts and play really good to improve her status.
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Post by rlspore on Nov 21, 2021 23:44:22 GMT
Watched the last 4 holes or so of this. That eagle by Hara on 17 was so clutch. Shut down the other contenders, and she coasted in from there. Is she regarded as the next big star on JPLGA? I see she leads the tour in driving distance, and not so bad in accuracy either.
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Post by jlpgafan on Nov 22, 2021 0:27:21 GMT
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Post by philknj on Nov 22, 2021 1:16:10 GMT
Watched the last 4 holes or so of this. That eagle by Hara on 17 was so clutch. Shut down the other contenders, and she coasted in from there. Is she regarded as the next big star on JPLGA? I see she leads the tour in driving distance, and not so bad in accuracy either.
"Next?!"   ... she was getting magazine covers BEFORE her first win on Japan's big tour. For sure, she brings some physical tools to bear at the golf course, but she has had inexplicable stretches in Japan where she has done almost nothing ... T-49 and T-46 in the two events before this one. I assume Jumbo Ozaki is still her guru ... waiting for a WITB article to see if she is still gaming the antique wedge he gave her a few years ago. |
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Post by philknj on Nov 22, 2021 1:26:49 GMT
By my count, Hara is three-for-three in LPGA Major trunk slams ... no need to be in a rush for the Q-series ... she's probably good enough to make it to the Major Leagues, but staying there would be a much bigger challenge ... has been extremely streaky in Japan and sometimes her short putting is brutally bad.
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Post by rlspore on Nov 22, 2021 5:29:12 GMT
By my count, Hara is three-for-three in LPGA Major trunk slams ... no need to be in a rush for the Q-series ... she's probably good enough to make it to the Major Leagues, but staying there would be a much bigger challenge ... has been extremely streaky in Japan and sometimes her short putting is brutally bad.
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Post by philknj on Nov 23, 2021 10:47:17 GMT
Hara's WITB -
1W: Mizuno ST-X prototype (10.5 ° TOUR AD GP-5S / 46 inches)
3W: Mizuno ST200 (15 ° TOUR AD IZ-5S / 43 inches)
5W: Mizuno Pro Prototype (18 ° TOUR AD IZ-6S / 41.5 inch)
4,5I: Mizuno Mizuno Pro FLI-HI (Steel Fiber 80S)
6I-PW: Mizuno JPX921 Tour (NS850 neo S)
GW: Mizuno Pro 225 (48 °)
A, SW: Callaway JAWS FORGED (52,58 °)
PT: Odyssey Toulon San Diego
BALL: Bridgestone TOUR BX
Not surprised that Jumbo's relic wedge is history. It was the first week for that driver head and she cut a quarter-inch off the shaft length. The GW is from a new iron set Mizuno released in Asia on Oct. 15.
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... she was getting magazine covers BEFORE her first win on Japan's big tour. For sure, she brings some physical tools to bear at the golf course, but she has had inexplicable stretches in Japan where she has done almost nothing ... T-49 and T-46 in the two events before this one. I assume Jumbo Ozaki is still her guru ... waiting for a WITB article to see if she is still gaming the antique wedge he gave her a few years ago.