Sunday, May 17, 2009

Vernal Ladies Weekend: Saitoh Holds off JLPGA's Finest

Yuko Saitoh held off a Saturday charge by JLPGA legend Yuri Fudoh and then held on in terrible weather conditions on Sunday to preserve an impressive wire-to-wire win at the Vernal Ladies in Fukuoka this weekend for her 2nd career JLPGA victry and 1st since 2004. Almost everyone in the top 20 had a legitimate chance to steal the victory away from Saitoh in the final round, but with the lowest rounds in the field 71s by Miho Koga and Saiki Fujita, nobody could make a big move on her.

1st/-5 Yuko Saitoh (67-70-74)
T2/-2 Miho Koga (73-70-71), Eun-A Lim (68-72-74), Yuri Fudoh (71-67-76)
5th/-1 Yuko Mitsuka (68-71-76)
T6/E Chie Arimura (69-71-76), Sakura Yokomine (68-71-77)
8th/+1 Ayako Uehara (74-69-74)
T9/+2 Nikki Campbell (74-71-73), Nobuko Kizawa (71-71-76), Mi-Jeong Jeon (73-68-77)

T12/+3 Saiki Fujita (75-73-71), Ji-Woo Lee (78-66-75), Ji-Hee Lee (70-70-79)
T15/+4 Hyun-Ju Shin (71-73-76), Yukari Baba (71-71-78), Namika Omata (71-70-79)
T18/+5 Akiko Fukushima (78-71-72), Miki Saiki (74-71-76)
T22/+6 Yun-Jye Wei (72-75-75), Mie Nakata (73-72-77)
T27/+8 Midori Yoneyama (74-74-76), Hiroko Yamaguchi (73-73-78), Shinobu Moromizato (71-74-79)
T34/+10 Ah-Reum Hwang (75-74-77), Ritsuko Ryu (77-69-80), Rui Kitada (71-73-82)
T37/+11 Yuki Ichinose (76-70-81)
T44/+13 Hiromi Mogi (77-71-81)

The following players missed the cut or withdrew:

+6 Maiko Wakabayashi (78-72), Bo-Bae Song (76-74), Erina Hara (76-74)
+7 Tamie Durdin (76-75)
+8 Akane Iijima (78-74), Mayu Hattori (77-75), Kumiko Kaneda (73-79)
+9 Kaori Higo (77-76), Esther Lee (74-79)
+10 Sakurako Mori (81-73), Rikako Morita (78-76)
+15 Mai Arai (78-81)
+17 Riko Higashio (82-79)
WD Woo-Soon Ko (84-WD)

Here's how the money list looks now:

1. Sakura Yokomine ¥40.18M
2. Shinobu Moromizato ¥33.21M
3. Yuko Mitsuka ¥32.90M
4. Yuko Saitoh ¥28.25M
5. Ji-Hee Lee ¥25.76M
6. Mi-Jeong Jeon ¥25.13M
7. Ah-Reum Hwang ¥24.53M
8. Ayako Uehara ¥23.16M
9. Chie Arimura ¥22.40M
10. Erina Hara ¥19.36M
11. Tamie Durdin ¥18.95M
12. Miho Koga ¥17.28M
13. Yuri Fudoh ¥15.64M
14. Ji-Woo Lee ¥14.47M
15. Eun-A Lim ¥10.77M
16. Yukari Baba ¥10.64M
17. Bo-Bae Song ¥10.38M
18. Akiko Fukushima ¥10.27M
19. Julie Lu ¥10.01M
20. Mie Nakata ¥9.80M
21. Midori Yoneyama ¥9.00M
22. Hyun-Ju Shin ¥8.89M
23. Kaori Aoyama ¥8.67M
24. Ji-Yai Shin ¥8.48M
25. Hiromi Mogi ¥7.52M
26. Akane Iijima ¥7.18M
27. Rui Kitada ¥7.13M
28. Kuniko Maeda ¥7.07M
29. Nikki Campbell ¥6.91M
30. Michie Ohba ¥6.10M

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