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Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | yesterday
The results are in from the 1st round of JLPGA Q-School's 72-hole Final Qualifying Tournament ! Here's how the notables in the field fared: T1/-3 Esther Lee (69) T2/-2 Candie Kung, Seon Hwa Lee, Chieko Amanuma (70) T6/-1 Sun Ju Ahn, Jae Bae (71) T14/E Teresa Lu, Na Ri Kim, Onnarin Sattayabanphot, Yuki Sakurai (72) T24/+1 Inbee Park, Kaori Higo, Eun Hye Lee, Bong Su Tseng (73) T43/+2 Young Kim (74)...
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Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | yesterday
Futures Tour Q-School medalist Tiffany Joh provides the theme song for this year's LPGA Q-School . As usual, the field will be competing on LPGA International's Champions and Legends courses. And as usual I'll be arguing that players have to go in with a mindset to go low rather than play it safe. Even without the KLPGA's Hee Kyung Seo, So Yeon Ryu, Sun Ju Ahn, and Ha Neul Kim, or the JLPGA's Shinobu...
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Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
For those who are wondering why there are so many great Korean women golfers, Yoon Chul from the Korea Times has one answer: corporate support of player development. Electronics retailer Himark's team--which was lead by Ji-Yai Shin and now includes So Yeon Ryu, Sun Ju Ahn, and Bo Mi Lee among its 17 members--has won almost half the tournaments on the KLPGA over the past 3 years. Himark president Jong-Koo...
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Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... as well, with the exception of 1 player: 6th/-3 Onnarin Sattayabanphot (72-71-70) 9th/-2 Sun Ju Ahn (73-72-69) 16th/+1 Teresa Lu (74-71-72) 19th/+2 Yuki Sakurai (75-74-69) 24th/+3 Ritsuko Ryu (71-75-73) 44th/+8 Mai Arai (80-70-74) Arai made 5 birdies today but finished +2 over her last 7 holes. Here's hoping her walkoff bogey doesn't come back to haunt her; she would have moved up to 39th place...
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Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... notables are still struggling: T10/-1 Onnarin Sattayabanphot (72-71) T18/+1 Teresa Lu (74-71), Sun Ju Ahn (73-72) T29/+2 Ritsuko Ryu (71-75) T49/+5 Yuki Sakurai (75-74) T54/+6 Mai Arai (80-70) 2 late birdies by Sakurai salvaged what could have been a disastrous round, while Ryu was unable to make a single birdie in her round and Arai played bogey-free golf. It's going to come down to the wire for...
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Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... following, Ritsuko Ryu lead the way with a 71 (T11), while Onnarin Sattayabanphot (72, T22), Sun Ju Ahn (73, T29), Teresa Lu (74, T36), Yuki Sakurai (75, T50), and Mai Arai (80, T92) have more or less work cut out for them. My guess is the top 46 or so from each site will go on to the Final Qualifying Tournament next week. It all depends on how many 2009 JLPGA members who didn't make the top 50...
