Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fujitsu Ladies Sunday: Na-Ri Lee Declared Winner When Rain Washes Out Final Round

A win is a win is a win,  With rain washing out the final round of the Fujitsu Ladies, Na-Ri Lee's 5-birdies-in-6-holes run on moving day turned out to be what gave her just that by 1 shot over Ayaka Watanabe.  It's Lee's 2nd victory in the last several weeks and brings her JLPGA victory total to a 2, as well.

Here's how the money list now looks:

1. Rikako Morita ¥103.67M
2. Sakura Yokomine ¥81.97M
3. Miki Saiki ¥79.74M
4. Yumiko Yoshida ¥70.97M
5. Natsuka Hori ¥64.27M
6. Mamiko Higa ¥64.06M
7. Sun-Ju Ahn ¥62.59M
8. Teresa Lu ¥60.20M
9. Mi-Jeong Jeon ¥59.90M
10. Na-Ri Lee ¥57.11M
11. Bo-Mee Lee ¥54.32M
12. Ritsuko Ryu ¥50.90M
13. Yuki Ichinose ¥44.87M
14. Erika Kikuchi ¥44.22M
15. Onnarin Sattayabanphot ¥43.22M
16. Da-Ye Na ¥40.80M
17. Soo-Yun Kang ¥40.25M
18. Yukari Baba ¥40.02M
19. Misuzu Narita ¥39.72M
20. Junko Omote ¥39.45M
21. Kumiko Kaneda ¥37.55M
22. Esther Lee ¥37.46M
23. Hiromi Mogi ¥36.88M
24. Asako Fujimoto ¥36.62M
25. Mayu Hattori ¥32.85M
26. Miki Sakai ¥32.46M
27. Harukyo Nomura ¥31.68M
28. Shiho Oyama ¥30.98M
29. Ji-Hee Lee ¥30.97M
30. Yuri Fudoh ¥30.76M
31. Na-Ri Kim ¥30.58M
32. Rui Kitada ¥29.29M
33. Erina Hara ¥27.82M
34. Maiko Wakabayashi ¥27.49M
35. Kaori Ohe ¥26.29M
36. Megumi Kido ¥24.35M
37. Lala Anai ¥23.01M
38. Young Kim ¥22.59M
39. Kaori Nakamura ¥22.36M
40. Akane Iijima ¥21.60M
41. Eun-Bi Jang ¥19.86M
42. Ah-Reum Hwang ¥18.86M
43. Yuko Fukuda ¥18.03M
44. Kaori Aoyama ¥18.01M
45. Yuki Sakurai ¥17.68M
46. Yun-Jye Wei ¥17.11M
47. Phoebe Yao ¥16.91M
48. Saiki Fujita ¥16.47M
49. Ayako Uehara ¥14.96M
50. Ji-Woo Lee ¥14.89M

The top 50 keep their cards for 2014, so it's worth noting that Shanshan Feng is at #56, Ji-Yai Shin at #58, Bo-Bae Song at #61, Yuko Mitsuka at #63, Li-Ying Ye at #65, Shinobu Moromizato at #67, Hyun-Ju Shin at #69, Momoko Ueda at #76, Ai Miyazato at #77, and Chie Arimura at #120.  

Next up for the JLPGA is the Nobuta Group Masters GC Ladies, which So-Hee Kim won last year.  The tournament has a new sponsor but no field list, from what I can find online.  It's funny, because past champions include Ai Miyazato, Paula Creamer, Ji-Yai Shin, Sakura Yokomine (twice), and Miho Koga (twice), so it attracts great fields and offers the maximum allowed prize money on tour (14 million yen).  You'd think that big a tournament would have everything lined up already....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey there. Shan Shan is working a three year exemption from her Japan Open win last year. She only needs to make 8 starts to retain her card and will be playing in Japan 4 weeks straight. So she should be good.
Keep up the good work!
Mr Gee