Mi-Jeong Jeon was tied with Yuko Mitsuka at -7 as they walked off the 5th green in the final round of the Kagome Philanthropy LPGA Players Championship, but the 2nd- and 3rd-round leader never looked back, making birdies on the 6th and 8th holes as Mitsuka bogeyed 2 in a row to open up a 4-shot lead. Jeon closed out her win in style with 3 consecutive birdies to tie for the low back and low round of the day, a 67 that got her to -12 for the tournament. Mitsuka recovered with 2 straight closing birdies to grab a solo 2nd at -7, while Akane Iijima charged from back in the pack to nab a solo 3rd at -5 as Ayako Uehara and Akiko Fukushima faded.
Here's how the leaderboard ended up:
1st/-12 Mi-Jeong Jeon (68-69-72-67)
2nd/-7 Yuko Mitsuka (70-69-71-71)
3rd/-5 Akane Iijima (74-70-72-67)
T4/-4 Shiho Oyama (72-73-71-68), Ji-Woo Lee (65-76-72-71), Ayako Uehara (69-71-71-73)
7th/-3 Hyun-Ju Shin (72-72-70-71)
T8/-2 Mayumi Nakajima (67-75-75-69), Erina Hara (72-72-70-72), Maiko Wakabayashi (69-75-69-73)
T11/-1 Miho Koga (71-73-73-70), Yun-Jye Wei (70-75-71-71), Hiromi Mogi (69-70-74-74)
T15/E Shinobu Moromizato (73-72-73-70), Ji-Hee Lee (73-70-72-73), Hiroko Yamaguchi (72-72-71-73), Yukari Baba (71-72-71-74), Akiko Fukushima (68-71-73-76)
T21/+1 Sakura Yokomine (72-74-73-70), Midori Yoneyama (71-71-73-74)
T28/+3 Mayu Hattori (73-75-73-70)
T41/+7 Eun-A Lim (74-72-74-75)
T59/+14 Miki Saiki (71-77-76-78), Michiko Hattori (71-75-76-80)
With her 2nd win of the season coming in the tournament with the 3rd-highest purse, Jeon shot up the money list:
1. Akiko Fukushima ￥73.88M
2. Mi-Jeong Jeon ￥60.65M
3. Ji-Hee Lee ￥59.03M
4. Ayako Uehara ￥47.73M
5. Miho Koga ￥47.16M
6. Sakura Yokomine ￥46.99M
7. Yuko Mitsuka ￥42.96M
8. Eun-A Lim ￥41.78M
9. Yukari Baba ￥38.80M
10. Bo-Bae Song ￥38.52M
11. Shiho Oyama ￥37.42M
12. Chie Arimura ￥37.17M
13. Yuri Fudoh ￥36.37M
14. Akane Iijima ￥35.40M
15. Hiromi Mogi ￥35.03M
16. Hyun-Ju Shin ￥34.25M
17. Miki Saiki ￥33.52M
18. Hiroko Yamaguchi ￥33.32M
19. Erina Hara ￥30.62M
20. Ji-Woo Lee ￥26.76M
21. Shinobu Moromizato ￥25.16M
22. Esther Lee ￥22.68M
23. Midori Yoneyama ￥19.10M
24. Momoko Ueda ￥17.73M
25. Yun-Jye Wei ￥16.95M
The JLPGA takes a week off for the Women's British Open and resumes with the AXA Ladies, the 1st of 5 events in August and early September that lead up to the second major of the season, the JLPGA Championship, otherwise known as the Konica Minolta Cup. With the top 3 bunched, the next 3 knotted, less than 10 million yen separating #7 from #18, and only 3 players with 2 wins, the season is still wide open.
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