Saturday, May 14, 2011

Fundokin Ladies Saturday: Miki Saiki's 67 Catches Inbee Park at -6

Miki Saiki fired a bogey-free 67 to catch 1st-round co-leader Inbee Park at -6 after 36 holes in the Fundokin Ladies and take a 3-shot lead on Mika Miyazato and Yukari Baba, a 4-shot lead on Mi-Jeong Jeon, and a 5-shot lead on Tamie Durdin. One bad round is keeping a lot of big names on the JLPGA on the outside hoping they can find a window to break through.

T1/-6 Miki Saiki (71-67), Inbee Park (69-69)
T3/-3 Yukari Baba (74-67), Toshimi Kimura (73-68), Hiromi Mogi (72-69), Mika Miyazato (71-70), Rui Kitada (71-70)
T8/-2 Yumiko Yoshida (73-69), Mi-Jeong Jeon (72-70), Ji-Na Lim (71-71), Mayu Hattori (70-72)

T12/-1 Ritsuko Ryu (72-71), Tamie Durdin (71-72)
T17/E Esther Lee (76-68), Yuri Fudoh (75-69), Akiko Fukushima (75-69), Ji-Woo Lee (75-69), Sun-Ju Ahn (71-73), Chie Arimura (71-73), Soo-Yun Kang (70-74)
T24/+1 Sakura Yokomine (75-70), Shiho Oyama (74-71), Na Yeon Choi (73-72), Bo-Bae Song (73-72), Na-Ri Kim (72-73), Young Kim (72-73), Kaori Aoyama (72-73)
T31/+2 Kaori Ohe (74-72), Akane Iijima (73-73), Miho Koga (71-75), Onnarin Sattayabanphot (70-76)
T36/+3 Momoko Ueda (76-71), Megumi Kido (75-72), Saiki Fujita (74-73), Mie Nakata (73-74), Maiko Wakabayashi (73-74), Meena Lee (72-75)
T43/+4 Shinobu Moromizato (75-73), Li-Ying Ye (75-73), Miki Uehara (74-74), Rikako Morita (73-75)
T49/+5 Mika Takushima (77-72), Ayako Uehara (76-73), Eun-A Lim (76-73), Asako Fujimoto (73-76), Yun-Jye Wei (73-76)

MC: Jae-Hee Bae (77-73), Aiko Ueno (74-76), Hyun-Ju Shin (77-74), Miki Sakai (77-74), Yuko Mitsuka (75-76), Ah-Reum Hwang (81-71), Na-Ri Lee (78-74), Nikki Campbell (75-77), Kumiko Kaneda (75-77), Yuki Ichinose (74-78), Lala Anai (79-74), Tao-Li Yang (76-79), So-Hee Kim (77-80), Erina Hara (78-82), Pei-Ying Tsai (79-85), Sakurako Mori (82-85)

Will this turn into a shootout between the 22-year-old Park and the 26-year-old Saiki, who has 1 fewer JLPGA win to her name than Park's 3 in less than 2 full seasons on tour? Or will other players muscle in on the co-leaders' confrontation? Stay tuned!

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