Nichirei PGM Ladies Sunday: Mi-Jeong-Jeon Does It!

Mi-Jeong Jeon could only manage a 72 in the final round of the Nichirei PGM Ladies today, but it was good enough for her to become the JLPGA's 1st repeat winner of 2010. She got to -12 for the tournament with 6 holes left to play on the strength of bogey-free golf and even though she hiccupped twice in the home stretch, everyone trailing her stumbled badly, so the outcome was never in doubt. Here are the final results:

1st/-10 Mi-Jeong Jeon (66-68-72)
2nd/-8 Young Kim (70-67-71)
T3/-7 Rikako Morita (71-68-70), Hiromi Takesue (67-69-73)
T5/-6 Sun-Ju Ahn (70-70-70), Li-Ying Ye (67-70-73)
T7/-5 Toshimi Kimura (71-70-70), Hiromi Mogi (69-71-71), Kaori Aoyama (66-74-71), Sakura Yokomine (70-69-72)

T11/-3 Hyun-Ju Shin (70-74-69), Yukari Baba (71-71-71), Nikki Campbell (70-71-72), Ji-Woo Lee (67-71-75)
17th/-2 Ji-Hee Lee (74-70-70)
T18/-1 Yun-Jye Wei (74-73-68), Mayu Hattori (76-70-69), Na-Ri Lee (72-73-70), Akane Iijima (71-74-70), Rui Kitada (71-72-72), So-Hee Kim (69-74-72), Kumiko Kaneda (70-71-74), Miki Saiki (70-69-76)
T26/E Esther Lee (75-70-71), Na-Ri Kim (71-72-73), Miho Koga (69-74-73), Ayako Uehara (69-73-74)
T31/+1 Chie Arimura (72-72-73), Shinobu Moromizato (72-71-74)
T39/+2 Maiko Wakabayashi (75-72-71), Mie Nakata (72-75-71), Asako Fujimoto (72-73-73)
T46/+3 Akiko Fukushima (72-73-74)
T50/+4 Saiki Fujita (71-75-74)
55th/+7 Jae-Hee Bae (74-72-77)
56th/+8 Mai Arai (75-72-77)

Even with her pair of wins, Jeon couldn't pass Yokomine on the money list, but the race is very tight:

1. Sakura Yokomine ￥45.53M
2. Mi-Jeong Jeon ￥42.04M
3. Sun-Ju Ahn ￥37.21M
4. Inbee Park ￥36.50M
5. Chie Arimura ￥33.20M
6. Akane Iijima ￥32.97M
7. Rui Kitada ￥31.84M
8. Miho Koga ￥29.87M
9. Yuri Fudoh ￥29.83M
10. Mayu Hattori ￥27.77M
11. Nikki Campbell ￥26.27M
12. Ji-Yai Shin ￥25.76M
13. Mie Nakata ￥23.81M
14. Shinobu Moromizato ￥23.74M
15. Young Kim ￥22.73M
16. Yukari Baba ￥22.45M
17. Hiromi Takesue ￥21.98M
18. Yun-Jye Wei ￥20.48M
19. Hiromi Mogi ￥19.78M
20. Ayako Uehara ￥19.54M
21. Asako Fujimoto ￥19.24M
22. Bo-Bae Song ￥17.44M
23. Rikako Morita ￥17.06M
24. Kaori Aoyama ￥16.30M
25. Ji-Hee Lee ￥14.85M
26. Hyun-Ju Shin ￥14.69M
27. Yoshimi Koda ￥14.12M
28. Saiki Fujita ￥13.67M
29. Na-Ri Kim ￥12.92M
30. Miki Saiki ￥12.81M

The JLPGA takes a week off for the LPGA Championship, so I'll be trying to meet Chie Arimura and Sakura Yokomine at Locust Hill. Right now the plan is for me to be there all day Monday, part of the day Tuesday and Friday, and all weekend.