[Update 3/6/08: Whoops, got a little ahead of myself there--it's our Thursday night, not our Wednesday night, that the
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
JLPGA 2008 Season Begins!
While I don't expect to see as large a wave of Japanese golfers make their way onto the LPGA Tour in the next decade as KLPGA players have in the past decade, I think it's fair to say that more than a handful in the next few years will do so. For that reason alone, it's worth checking out the Daikin Orchid event in Okinawa this week. Live scoring in English is available at the JLPGA site, although if you happen not to want to check it out in the middle of the night, they may take it down before you get up in the morning. If that happens just look a little below the Live Scoring link and you'll see a Results link you can click on. (Here's another helpful hint--if your browser shows an address when you scroll over a link, the URLs are in English, so you can usually guess what's on a given page from that.) Not that any of this will do you much good if you happen to be an English-only reader--it's all in Japanese, as are 99% of the words on the JLPGA site. I'll try to figure out if Blogger will allow me to copy the mix of kanji, katakana, and hiragana that you'll find in the players' names into a post. And I'll beg the Full Metal Archivist to translate a couple of dozen for me. If those two things come together, I'll do the occasional tournament update this weekend. Hey, if even Mulligan Stu can't do it, someone should, right?
[Update 3/6/08: Whoops, got a little ahead of myself there--it's our Thursday night, not our Wednesday night, that theDaikon Orchard Daikin Orchid event starts. Carry on as you were for another day.]
[Update 3/6/08: Whoops, got a little ahead of myself there--it's our Thursday night, not our Wednesday night, that the
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If you can help me figure out how to get these stats out of the JLPGA site - scoring average, money list, wins, Top 10% and missed cuts - I'll plug them into my system and crank out a JLPGA ranking 3-4 times a year. Deal?
Shweet! I actually have a colleague visiting from Japan to give a couple talks on campus the next two days (not that he's coming all the way from Fukuoka to western NY--he's already in western PA this year while on leave) who might not be as virulently uninterested in the JLPGA as the tsuma is....
Scoring average and money list are easy once you can read people's names--they're findable through the top left link (年間獲得賞金) under "Ranking" on the right margin of the JLPGA page. As for wins, top 10%, and MCs, we may have to keep track of that by hand, as it were. I'll keep looking.
The list of winners in a year is a little elaborate to get to, but then you hit the jackpot--results that go back to 1967!
From the main page, click on "Tournament" on the left margin. This will take you to the basic info. about the most recent tournament on the schedule.
At the top of the page, though, there are two rows of links in Japanese. Click on the one on the far right in the second row.
Then you'll see a stack of 4 links. Click on the top one for the jackpot. (The rest reproduce a basic hiragana alphabet chart, from what I can tell at first glance.)
Then choose your year!
So it's clear that for any of this to be useful, I'll need to put together a name index/glossary....
A shorter way to get to the list of winners is to click on the second link from the left on the first row of that "Tournament" page. That'll take you to the JLPGA schedule, where they list 2008 winners (and defending champs for as-yet-unplayed events) in the far-right column.
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