Saturday, March 22, 2008

Yokohama PRGR Ladies Cup Saturday: A Shin/Yokomine Showdown in the Making?

To recap, here's where the Yokohama PRGR Ladies Cup leaderboard stood at the end of Friday's action:

#1/68 Akiko Fukushima -4

#2/70 Erina Hara, Mihoko Takahashi, Na Zhang, Ji-Yai Shin, So-Hee Kim -2

T7/71 Rui Yokomine, Ai Ogawa, Mayu Hattori, Hiromi Mogi, Ji-Hee Lee, Sakura Yokomine, Chie Arimura -1

T14/72 Mihoko Iseri, Yuuki Ichinose, Hyun-Ju Shin, Bo-Bae Song, Junko Omote, Rui Kitada, Ji-Woo Lee, Itsumi Okada E

Interesting, isn't it, how Fukushima, Hara, and Takahashi were paired together for the final round, while Zhang, Shin, and Kim (each of whom could have been paired with the leader) were relegated to the next-to-last pairing? Well, the golf gods must have a sense of poetic justice, as the all-Japan final group has dropped way down the leaderboard so far today:

#1/-5 Sakura Yokomine (-4 through 14), Ji-Yai Shin (-3 through 12)

#3/-4 Ji-Hee Lee (-3 through 14)

#4/-3 So-Hee Kim (-1 through 12)

#5/-2 Junko Omote (-2 through 14)

T6/-1 Hiroko Yamaguchi (69), Mayumi Shimamura, Kaori Higo, and Yukari Baba (-2 through 16), Erina Hara (+1 through 12)

T11/E Yuko Mitsuka (-1 through 17), Mayu Hattori (+1 through 14), Akiko Fukushima (+4 through 12)

The top 3 have bogey-free rounds going on a day when lots of top-ranked golfers are blowing up or holding steady. More coming once the JLPGA updates their site....

[Update 1 (4:42 am): Looks like a 3-player race:

#1/-6 Sakura Yokomine (67)

#2/-5 Ji-Yai Shin (69)

#3/-4 Ji-Hee Lee (69)

The next closest people are 3 shots behind Lee....]

[Update 2 (4:46 am): For video highlights, check out Amaebirah's contribution to the Seoul Sisters discussion thread!]

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