Life Card Ladies Golf Tournament Friday: Struggles at the Top

#8-ranked Shinobu Moromizato's 68 set the pace at the Life Card Ladies JLPGA event today, but just as big a story are the big-time struggles of the other top-ranked players on tour. Shiho Ohyama (78, T74), Hiroko Yamaguchi and Na Zhang (77, T52), Akiko Fukushima and Bo-Bae Song (76, T42), Sakura Yokomine (75, T36), and Yuri Fudoh, Mi-Jeong Jeon, and Miho Koga (74, T23) will have one eye on the cut line rather than the top of the leaderboard. Even Miki Saiki, Hyun-Ju Shin, and Akane Iijima are stranded 4 shots back of Moromizato, although there are only 4 players between them and the first-round leader, including #19 Yuko Mitsuka and #23 Midori Yoneyama at -3 and #22 Yukari Baba at -2.