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Post by philknj on Mar 13, 2023 0:00:46 GMT
Starts Friday for a field of 108 ... top-50 plus ties make the cut. Baba-chan has three hapless competitors for the low-am trophy. Ayaka Furue is OUT and Yuka Saso is IN. Pseudo-major leaguer Ting Ting will have her minor league kick-off for 2023. Un-retiree Yuki Ichinose will make her first start of 2023, along with washout(?) Kotono Kozuma.
The addition of the BS channels at aqstream is just terrific ... although it gets a little complicated Sunday as you have to switch channels twice to get it all.
Japan time:
■ BS Asahi March 17 (Fri) 13:00-15:56 (LIVE) March 18th (Sat) 13:00-15:54 (LIVE) March 19 (Sun) 13:00-13:55 (LIVE) / 15:17-16:20 (LIVE) aqstream.com/jp/tva/BS-Asahi
■ TV Asahi network of 24 stations nationwide
March 19 (Sun) 13:55-15:20 (LIVE)
Rogue YT video look-up (didn't see any vids posted during the first two weeks of the season) -
Tポイント×ＥＮＥＯＳ ゴルフトーナメント
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Post by philknj on Mar 16, 2023 10:16:50 GMT
It was dress-up Tuesday ... that's two times in three weeks ... they are strict. 
Hori Two and Erika Hara
 
Miyuu Yamashita and Chairwoman Mao/Saku-chan/Saso
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Practice -
Minami Katsu
Baba-chan
Sayaka Takahashi
Serena Aoki
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Post by philknj on Mar 17, 2023 4:29:17 GMT
The stream started at Midnight for me and runs for three hours ... I don't think I'll make it to the end, but it looks good so far. The main focus has been the Katsu/Koiwai/Saso group, but they've sprinkled in a few other players ... including Yui who rolled a birdie from off the green at #14 to go -3 ... oh, she just birdied #15 to go -4.
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Post by philknj on Mar 17, 2023 11:08:28 GMT
Round One:
POS PLAYER SCORE HOLE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL
1T Minami Hiruta -7 *F -7 65 65
1T Mone Inami -7 F -7 65 65
1T Momoko Ueda -7 F -7 65 65
4 @saki Baba -6 F -6 66 66
5T Seonwoo Bae -5 F -5 67 67
5T Minami Katsu -5 F -5 67 67
5T Yuri Yoshida -5 F -5 67 67
5T Serena Aoki -5 F -5 67 67
5T Haruka Morita -5 F -5 67 67
10T Shina Kanazawa -4 F -4 68 68
10T Pei-Ying Tsai -4 *F -4 68 68
10T Mao Nozawa -4 F -4 68 68
10T Chisato Iwai -4 F -4 68 68
10T Hana Lee -4 *F -4 68 68
10T Ayaka Watanabe -4 F -4 68 68
10T Hikaru Yoshimoto -4 F -4 68 68
10T Kokona Sakurai -4 *F -4 68 68
Hori Two (+9, WD)
Kana Nagai (+1)
Minami Katsu had numerous groups with banners following her.
Ting Ting (-1) and Au Reum Hwang (E)
Momoko Ueda, the rare player here who knows about March 17.
Hina (The Face) Arakaki (+1) and Hikaru Yoshimoto
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Post by jlpgafan on Mar 17, 2023 13:04:04 GMT
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Post by SoYeonFan on Mar 17, 2023 15:35:07 GMT
Yui Kawamoto got to four under but same Yui finishing a round.
She played the par five sixteen all over the place but made a long putt to save par.
Hit her shot on par three seventeen short of the green, hit a bad chip and three putted for a double bogey.
Kotone Hori forgot how to play golf, defending her Title is moot since shot eighty one.
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Post by philknj on Mar 18, 2023 0:22:29 GMT
Yui Kawamoto got to four under but same Yui finishing a round.
Forget about Yui ... shouldn't you be at Longbow? MHL and Bianca are in the same group!   Ruffles potato chips is tied for first at -9. Chungchungkar gagged today, but will make the cut. Bianca also looks safe ... aigoo, MHL is on the cut line at -1 with five holes left to play.  |
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Post by philknj on Mar 18, 2023 0:35:10 GMT
Early Round Two ...
Au Reum Hwang at age 35 has not bombed out (yet) ... currently at -1 thru six holes ... maybe that putt went in.
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Post by philknj on Mar 18, 2023 13:09:03 GMT
The cut was -1 and 54 players made it.
POS PLAYER SCORE TODAY 1R 2R 3R TOTAL
1 Momoko Ueda -13 -6 65 66 131
2T Serena Aoki -9 -4 67 68 135
2T Mone Inami -9 -2 65 70 135
4T Amiyu Ozeki -8 -5 69 67 136
4T Shuri Sakuma -8 -5 69 67 136
4T @saki Baba -8 -2 66 70 136
7T Yuka Saso -7 -5 70 67 137
7T Jiyai Shin -7 -4 69 68 137
7T Yuri Yoshida -7 -2 67 70 137
7T Minami Hiruta -7 0 65 72 137
Yui (MC) asking Yamashita (-1) how to play golf.
The Unknown Korean (-3)
Ting Ting (-6)
Erika Hara (-4) 
Baba-chan
Chairwoman Mao (MC)
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Post by SoYeonFan on Mar 18, 2023 18:23:49 GMT
Yui Kawamoto got to four under but same Yui finishing a round.
Forget about Yui ... shouldn't you be at Longbow? MHL and Bianca are in the same group! Ruffles potato chips is tied for first at -9. Chungchungkar gagged today, but will make the cut. Bianca also looks safe ... aigoo, MHL is on the cut line at -1 with five holes left to play. Not able to follow them so I might just go out watch them tee off. |
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Post by philknj on Mar 19, 2023 4:51:30 GMT
We're about 50 minutes into the broadcast ... looked like a rout with Ueda up by five shots thru 9 holes ... not anymore, she butchered the 11th hole, which included an airmailed sand shot into an opposite bunker ... now leads Serena Aoki by two shots. Wheels are really coming off now ... Aoki about 3 feet left for a birdie at short par-3 12th, while Ueda went over the green. Aoki makes putt, Ueda saves par, now a one-shot lead. Here we go again, Momoko in the left woods at the par-5 13th ... if you didn't know who she was, you'd think you were watching a winless scrub gagging under the spotlight.
The par-4 15th is only 277 ... we'll see if Saso or Baba-chan can get there in one shot a little later ... I don't think any other players can do it.
Erika Hara finished short and left at #15 ... chipped it close and made a birdie. She will make an impression on the LPGA  ... assuming she doesn't fly apart like a broken clock spring during Q-Series, which is always a danger with her.
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Post by philknj on Mar 19, 2023 5:39:19 GMT
Wow, this has become an Ohio train wreck ... a three-shot swing at #13 dropped Ueda two shots behind Aoki ... then Momoka's short par-saver at #14 takes an unseen off-ramp to the left ... now it's a three-shot deficit. I hope someone posts this disaster via rogue video onto YT. The 16th hole looks like another mess in the making. UPDATE: another shot lost for Momoka  ... do they gamble on golf tournaments in Japan? Is she taking a dive? I know she's pushing 37, but really .... Well, we're back to when I started watching the broadcast ... it's a rout again. 
BTW, Saso and Baba-chan didn't reach the 15th green in one shot.
A Google-mushed article from a few weeks ago said Aoki devoted herself to golf 100% in 2022 ... meaning she stopped reading Manga, stopped going to the theater and stopped putting on makeup and sun block at the course ... I was wondering why pics of her last year looked, well, a little rough. If you told me she wears the same outfit every day, I'd believe it. |
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Post by philknj on Mar 19, 2023 12:26:04 GMT
It was worse than I thought, worse than The Shark at the '96 Masters since Ueda birdied the first five holes and had an eight-shot lead ... calling all sports psychologists. A Google-mush quote afterward:
"I was in a rush in the second half. It was hard to get my focus back. I couldn't decide. I felt like I couldn't do anything," she said of the "nightmare" that took her 42 (par 36).
Ueda had similar last round blow-ups late last year at Ito En and Toto ... ruh-roh ...
POS PLAYER SCORE 1R 2R 3R TOTAL PRIZE
1 Serena Aoki -17 67 68 64 199 ¥18,000,000
2 Yuka Saso -13 70 67 66 203 ¥8,800,000
3T Erika Hara -11 71 69 65 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Sakura Koiwai -11 69 69 67 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Rui Hiraoka -11 69 69 67 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Minami Hiruta -11 65 72 68 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Jiyai Shin -11 69 68 68 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Shuri Sakuma -11 69 67 69 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Amiyu Ozeki -11 69 67 69 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Mone Inami -11 65 70 70 205 ¥3,874,444
3T Momoko Ueda -11 65 66 74 205 ¥3,874,444
Serena Aoki and low-am Baba-chan (-9)
4th career win
The Shinster
Miyuu Yamashita (-10) shot 63 on Sunday and won the tourney's low round award.
Rumi Yoshiba (+1)
Minami Katsu (-9) and her fanboys ... and now to the airport ASAP for AZ.
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Post by philknj on Mar 21, 2023 7:56:57 GMT
The winner's WITB -
1W: Dunlop XXIO X (9.5 degrees/VENTUS RED 5R, 45.5 inches)
3W: Dunlop Srixon Z F85 (15 degrees/ATTAS COOL 6R)
5, 7, 9W: Dunlop XXIO 10 (18, 20, 23 degrees / ATTAS COOL 6R)
5, 6U: Dunlop Srixon Z H65 (25, 28 degrees / ATTAS MB-HY65R)
7U: Dunlop Srixon ZX (30.5 degrees/ATTAS MB-HY65R)
8I: Dunlop Srixon ZX5 Mk II (N.S.PRO 750GH S)
9I, PW: Dunlop Srixon ZX7 Mk II (N.S.PRO 750GH S)
52, 58 degrees: Grind Studio Prototype (N.S.PRO 850GH R)
PT: Odyssey White Hot OG #1 WCS
BALL: Dunlop Srixon Z-STAR XV
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Ruffles potato chips is tied for first at -9. Chungchungkar gagged today, but will make the cut. Bianca also looks safe ... aigoo, MHL is on the cut line at -1 with five holes left to play. 
... assuming she doesn't fly apart like a broken clock spring during Q-Series, which is always a danger with her.
... do they gamble on golf tournaments in Japan? Is she taking a dive? I know she's pushing 37, but really .... Well, we're back to when I started watching the broadcast ... it's a rout again. 
