Post by philknj on Dec 2, 2015 18:26:59 GMT
As you already know, Smile Candy devastated the JLPGA this year. Here are the final rankings and damages:
Mercedes-Benz POY Points: 1st, 769.5 (old record was 571.5 by Mi Jeong Jeon in 2012 when award was started)
Official prize money: 1st, ¥230,497,057 (highest amount by a human on any Japanese tour)...via today’s exchange rate, that’s $1,868,188.
Victories: 1st, seven
Second place finishes: 1st, seven (including four straight, a tour record)
Scoring Average: 1st, 70.1914 (third-lowest in history for stats going back to 1990)
Greens in Regulation: 1st, 74.5880% (the best ever for stats going back to 1990)
Putts per GIR: 1st, 1.7589
Saved Par Rate: 1st, 89.5268% (percentage of holes making par or better)
Birdies per round: 2nd, 3.7321 (does not include eagles & double eagles)…Teresa Lu 1st at 3.8137
Recovery Rate: 6th, 66.5272% (I assume this means par or better for greens missed in regulation)…Sun Ju Ahn 1st at 70.9821%
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Other notes:
The JLPGA has no rankings for Driving Distance and Fairways hit. However, they posted the Driving Distance stats for everyone who played the 2015 Salonpas fake major. Among the players who made the cut, BML ranked T-24 at 246.9, twenty yards behind the leader Ayaka Watanabe. Tourney winner In Gee Chun ranked 13th at 250.1.
BML played 32 of 37 events and had no MCs or WDs.
BML made two eagles, ranked T-21. Lala Anai ranked first with nine.
Four Iron Byons played all 37 events: Miki Sakai, Junko Omote, Yoko Maeda, and Yukari Nishiyama. Sakai played the most rounds, 112.5.
Non-member Dumbo is not included in the JLPGA stats. If my count is correct, she played three events, collected ¥56,680,000 (about $459K) and averaged 70.9167 per round.
Top-ten in official prize money (millions of Yen):
1. Bo Mee Lee 230.5
2. Teresa Lu 147.0
3. Ji Yai Shin 114.9
4. Sun Ju Ahn 105.2
5. Ji Hee Lee 101.1
6. Ayaka Watanabe 100.9
7. Momoko Ueda 88.7
8. Erika Kikuchi 88.3
9. Shiho Oyama 77.1
10. Misuzu Narita 70.7
Top tour-member slummers:
1. Shan Shan Feng 13.3 (five starts, best finishes were T-3 and T-5)
2. Sakura Yokomine 6.7 (five starts, best finish was T-4)
3. Chie Arimura 4.7 (seven starts, best finish was T-9)
4. Ayako Uehara 2.6 (six starts, best finish was T-21)
Road Warrior award goes to Jae Eun Chung, who played 21 times in Japan (4 top-tens) and 14 times in Korea (6 top-tens)...and she’s playing in China next week.
The Complete Futility award goes to Kurumi Ohtsu, who struck out 27 times in 27 starts…averaged 80.2236 per round. Motomo Aoki whiffed 25 times in 26 starts. Miyako Tanaka topped the tour in MCs with 29.
Erika Kikuchi’s older Sis, Asami(left), bombed out of 28 tournaments. However, she finished T-40 and T-13 in her last two starts...”wait ‘til next year”, as they used to say in Brooklyn.
