Inbee Park bounced back from her 3rd-round loss to Ai Miyazato in the Sybase Match Play Championship last Saturday with a 4-birdie 68 in the Yonex Ladies today that was capped off by a walkoff eagle on the 478-yard par-5 18th. It vaulted her ahead of Sakura Yokomine, Ji-Hee Lee, and Yukari Baba, all of whom birdied it, as well as Ritsuko Ryu, who could only manage to par it. Nobody else in the field could break 70, and some big names ran into some serious trouble, Shiho Oyama by shooting a 78, Young Kim, Miho Koga, Kumiko Kaneda, and Bo-Bae Song 76s, Yuri Fudoh and Shinobu Moromizato 75s, and Teresa Lu a 74. Defending champion Mi-Jeong Jeon made 2 birdies and 2 bogeys to stay within 4 shots of Park, while money-list leader Miki Saiki kept herself within 3 by spreading around 4 birdies and 3 bogeys in today's round.
Here's how the leaders and notables stand after 18 holes:
1st/-4 Inbee Park (68)
T2/-3 Sakura Yokomine, Ji-Hee Lee, Yukari Baba, Ritsuko Ryu (69)
T6/-2 Hyun-Ju Shin, Hiromi Mogi, Kaori Aoyama, Kyoko Furuya (70)
T10/-1 Miki Saiki, Ayako Uehara, Yuki Ichinose, Miki Sakai (71)
T14/E Mi-Jeong Jeon, Eun-A Lim, So-Hee Kim, Li-Ying Ye, Erika Kikuchi, Rui Yokomine (72)
T24/+1 Asako Fujimoto, Yun-Jye Wei, Julie Lu, Megumi Kido, Miki Uehara (73)
T35/+2 Teresa Lu, Akane Iijima, Rui Kitada, Tamie Durdin, Erina Hara, Esther Lee, Mika Takushima, Eun-Bi Jang (74)
T47/+3 Yuri Fudoh, Shinobu Moromizato, Mie Nakata (75)
T59/+4 Young Kim, Miho Koga, Kumiko Kaneda, Bo-Bae Song, Lala Anai (76)
T73/+5 Rikako Morita, Maiko Wakabayashi, Yumiko Yoshida (77)
T81/+6 Shiho Oyama, Mayu Hattori, Kaori Ohe (78)
T89/+7 Na-Ri Lee, Pei-Ying Tsai (79)
T98/+9 Tao-Li Yang (81)
WD Jae-Hee Bae (WD)
Should be interesting to see how the leader and her lead chase pack hold up over the weekend. Stay tuned!
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