Saturday, April 4, 2009

Yamaha Ladies Open Saturday: Will the 3rd Time Be the Charm for Erina Hara?

Will the 3rd time be the charm for Erina Hara this season on the JLPGA? She contended in the 1st event of 2009 but missed the cut in the 2nd. Today, she was 1 of only 3 players to break 70 at the Yamaha Ladies Open and finds herself within 1 shot of the lead. But she has plenty of company. Ah-Reum Hwang's 31 on the back lifted her to the front of the pack, while Mie Nakata's walkoff eagle pulled her even with Hara, 1 shot ahead of Mi-Jeong Jeon, who finished eagle-par-birdie to pull herself into contention. With 15 players within 5 shots of the lead heading into the final round, though, just about anything can happen.

1st/-4 Ah-Reum Hwang (73-67)
T2/-3 Erina Hara (73-68), Mie Nakata (71-70)
4th/-2 Mi-Jeong Jeon (73-69)
5th/-1 Ji-Woo Lee (72-71)
T6/E Julie Lu (74-70), Yuriko Ohtsuka (73-71), Junko Omote (72-72)
T9/+1 So-Hee Kim (74-71), Mikiyo Nishizuka (74-71), Ritsuko Ryu (73-72), Yasuko Satoh (73-72), Bo-Bae Song (72-73), Ayako Uehara (72-73), Hyun-Ju Shin (71-74)

T16/+2 Hiromi Mogi (75-71), Yuko Mitsuka (73-73), Midori Yoneyama (70-76)
T25/+3 Yuko Saitoh (75-72), Nikki Campbell (73-74), Sakurako Mori (72-75), Mayu Hattori (71-76)
T31/+4 Maiko Wakabayashi (78-70)
T33/+5 Akane Iijima (77-72), Rui Kitada (75-74), Saiki Fujita (73-76)
T39/+6 Hiroko Yamaguchi (76-74), Shinobu Moromizato (75-75), Yun-Jye Wei (75-75), Yuki Ichinose (75-75)
T48/+7 Chie Arimura (78-73), Miki Saiki (74-77)

T56/+8 Na Zhang (76-76), Yukari Baba (76-76)
T64/+9 Eun-A Lim (79-74)
T73/+10 Riko Higashio (78-76), Esther Lee (77-77), Rikako Morita (76-78)
T85/+11 Woo-Soon Ko (81-74)
T91/+12 Kumiko Kaneda (75-81), Kaori Higo (81-75)
105th/+32 Yuki Sakurai (91-85)

Looks like bad weather is affecting the entire world of women's golf this weekend! Hopefully conditions will improve for those who were able to make it to Sunday's round.

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