Friday, April 25, 2008

Fujisankei Ladies Classic Friday: Big Names at the Top

The Fujisankei Ladies Classic kicked off this Friday and the top JLPGA players came with their game faces on. Defending champion Miki Saiki is joined by 2006 champion Shiho Ohyama, last week's winner Yukari Baba, and Sakura Yokomine near the top of the leaderboard, with plenty of talented players hanging right there with them. But the unheralded Kayo Yamada leads after the close of Friday's play, thanks to consecutive closing birdies.

1st/-4 Kayo Yamada (68)
T2/-3 Sakura Yokomine, Miki Saiki, Shiho Ohyama, Yuko Mitsuka, Yukari Baba, Ji-Woo Lee (69)
T8/-2 Ayako Uehara, Michiko Hattori (70)
T10/-1 Shinobu Moromizato, Hiromi Mogi, Akane Iijima, Mayu Hattori (71)
T21/E Namika Omata (72)
T28/+1 Mi-Jeong Jeon, Eun-A Lim, Erina Hara, Yui Kawahara (73)
T42/+2 Yun-Jye Wei, Kaori Higo, Midori Yoneyama, Chie Arimura, Mie Nakata (74)
T60/+3 Bo-Bae Song (75)

With Yuri Fudoh, Miho Koga, Akiko Fukushima, Na Zhang, Hiroko Yamaguchi, Hyun-Ju Shin, and Ji-Hee Lee sitting this one out, it's a prime opportunity for Yokomine, Saiki, and Ohyama to make a statement. We'll have to wait and see which one of them can do it.

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