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Post by HappyFan on Dec 4, 2022 18:47:13 GMT
Kum Kang Park shot a 64 on day four to vault up the leaderboard. No worries about the cut line anymore!
Yae Eun and Mi Hyang are barely on the right side of the cut with a lot of work to do today. Nail biter!
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Post by jumpcut on Dec 4, 2022 21:13:05 GMT
Looks like an all-star group made it right on the cut line: MHL, Yaeeun Hong, Mo Stacks, Team Pano, EMP-In-Training Ashley Lau and Singapore's Amanda ("Don't call me Kelly!") Tan.  |
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Post by SoYeonFan on Dec 4, 2022 21:36:35 GMT
Mi Hyang Lee cut it close with bogeys on fifteen and sixteen, clutched up with birdies on seventeen and eighteen.
Yaeeun Hong made bogey on eleven to drop to minus one, finished with one birdie no bogeys to make the cut.
Seaulki Lee blew it after making birdie on ten to get too minus four, had three bogeys no birdies after that.
The two best final round scores were clean cards of seven birdies by Hae Ran Ryu and Kum Kang Park eight birdies.
Actually, Kum Kang Park was near the top or leading the Epson Tour but had bad finishes the last half of the year.
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Post by HappyFan on Dec 4, 2022 22:15:13 GMT
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Post by philknj on Dec 5, 2022 3:37:37 GMT
MHL pulled out of a nosedive at the last minute. So, she is ahead of last year when she got bounced after Week One ... even that didn't turn out to be a disaster, as she got into 15 events in 2022 ... was helped a lot by the reshuffles. Still has a long climb to get one of the better status positions for 2023 ... criteria:
2023 Status:
• Players finishing in positions 1-20 and ties earn LPGA status in Category 14.
• Players finishing in positions 21-45 and ties earn LPGA status in Category 15 and Epson
Tour status in Category C.
• Players finishing outside the top-45 and ties, who complete all rounds before the cut, will
earn Epson Tour status.
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I don't know what has happened to Gillman ... since making about a half mil in 2019, her game has cratered in a linear fashion ... maybe she went to the wrong Q-school ... try Japan next year, at least she has a win there.
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Brianna Do was another one-shot whiff ... too bad, she brings some nice optics to the course.
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YUGE choke by Maria Torres ... was -2 thru Saturday and blew up with a 77 (+6) on Sunday.
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Round Four pix:
Looks like Big Ryu has a new fanboy follower:
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Post by fanofseri on Dec 5, 2022 4:25:28 GMT
Ben is late to the party.
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Post by philknj on Dec 6, 2022 10:22:43 GMT
Japan's TV Wowow has been covering this ... Rounds Five thru Seven will be VOD (you need a login) ... Sunday's round will be shown on TV Wowow Live channel on Monday at 11 PM (Japan time). I don't know rogue streams for these.
More from Ben on Round Four -
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Post by fanofseri on Dec 7, 2022 5:30:23 GMT
Let's see what these old timers are made of. It would be easy to be a cashier at the lucrative car wash you own. Instead you have to scramble against a bunch of inferior players. Another player's irons are rubbish. based on her position on the cut line. You better remember something super fast. My late dad said things always work out in life.
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Post by philknj on Dec 8, 2022 1:33:08 GMT
Two-minute interview with Minami Katsu in Dothan this week:
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Tuesday practice -
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Post by philknj on Dec 9, 2022 1:46:11 GMT
MHL got out of the basement today, but has MORE work to do ... sits three shots off the top-45 group.
Wednesday practice -
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Post by HappyFan on Dec 10, 2022 18:17:42 GMT
Really solid 67 by Hae Ran on Friday, the second-best score of the day. Unfortunately for her, the best score was turned in by Gabsa, allowing her to take a four-shot lead. But Hae Ran is in second and has two more rounds to see if she can grab this title. I think she is the best player on this leaderboard, so she has a chance at least. Good luck!
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Post by HappyFan on Dec 10, 2022 23:42:59 GMT
I notice that the Golf Channel story about Q-Series Week 2 did not include Hae Ran in their 'players to watch'. Big surprise there. Q-Series Players to WatchGreat round 7 66 for her to overcome a four shot deficit and take a two-shot lead into the final round. Good luck, Hae Ran! Knock 'em dead! Kum Kang Park is four back and nicely positioned to get her own card. Mina Yoon is well within a card and just a small gap from getting a full card. I'm pretending that Ina Yoon changed her name to Mina Yoon to fly under the radar.  (yeah, I know they are not the same person). |
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Post by HappyFan on Dec 10, 2022 23:45:39 GMT
Jennifer Song and Su Oh are struggling. I hope they have some kind of status to fall back on if they don't do well this week.
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Post by fanofseri on Dec 11, 2022 4:48:56 GMT
Hae Ran wasted years playing on Korean cow pastures. That's in the rearview mirror.
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Post by jlpgafan on Dec 12, 2022 0:29:16 GMT
minami katsu japan finished in 5th place and will be part of
usa lpga next year....
yuna nishimura finish was 25th place will need to play epson
tour if she stays in the usa....
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