Sun-Ju Ahn solidified her position atop the JLPGA money list today with a playoff win over 1st- and 2nd-round leader Akiko Fukushima in the NEC Karuizawa 72. Ahn fired a bogey-free 66 in which she caught the 4-time champion in Nagano at -13 after 10 holes, then matched her birdie for birdie down the stretch as each golfer finished at -16. Unfortunately, I can't find any accounts in English of how Ahn got her 6th career JLPGA victory and 1st since the Salonpas Cup in May. So I'll have to settle for a rundown of the final results.
1st/-16 Sun-Ju Ahn (68-66-68) [won in playoff]
2nd/-16 Akiko Fukushima (66-66-68)
T3/-10 Na-Ri Kim (70-69-67), Sakura Yokomine (71-65-70)
5th/-9 Asako Fujimoto (69-69-69)
T6/-7 Bo-Bae Song (72-69-68), Ji-Hee Lee (72-66-71)
T8/-6 Chie Arimura (73-69-68), Shanshan Feng (72-68-70)
T10/-5 Teresa Lu (73-71-67), Ji-Yai Shin (71-72-68), Shiho Oyama (73-68-70), Midori Yoneyama (73-68-70)
T14/-4 Mi-Jeong Jeon (69-75-68), Li-Ying Ye (73-70-69), Saiki Fujita (71-70-71), Yukari Baba (71-69-72), Rikako Morita (71-69-72)
T21/-3 Eun-Bi Jang (74-71-68), Jae-Hee Bae (73-72-68), Bo-Mee Lee (73-70-70), Akane Iijima (73-70-70), Junko Omote (73-70-70), Esther Lee (70-71-72)
T28/-2 Ritsuko Ryu (71-73-70), Tamie Durdin (69-75-70), Young Kim (73-70-71), Onnarin Sattayabanphot (72-71-71), Hyun-Ju Shin (71-72-71), Eun-A Lim (75-67-72), Lala Anai (72-69-73)
T35/-1 So-Hee Kim (75-70-70), Shinobu Moromizato (70-71-74)
T39/E Rui Kitada (73-72-71)
T42/+1 Na-Ri Lee (73-72-72), Mayu Hattori (70-74-73), Kumiko Kaneda (73-70-74), Kaori Aoyama (72-70-75), Miki Uehara (72-70-75)
T51/+2 Miho Koga (72-73-73), Ji-Woo Lee (74-70-74), Maiko Wakabayashi (74-69-75)
T54/+3 Julie Lu (73-72-74), Nikki Campbell (70-74-75), Megumi Kido (72-71-76)
T58/+4 Ji-Na Lim (75-70-75)
As you can see, the cream of the JLPGA rose to the top, but nobody could keep up with Ahn and Fukushima. Still, Na-Ri Kim's T3 is very important to her, as she had been hanging on at #50 on the JLPGA money list. Others moved up the list thanks to their top-10 finishes, as well, although a late double kept Ji-Hee Lee from passing Miki Saiki and taking over the #2 spot:
1. Sun-Ju Ahn ￥67.02M
2. Miki Saiki ￥52.62M
3. Ji-Hee Lee ￥52.43M
4. Sakura Yokomine ￥50.79M
5. Chie Arimura ￥45.82M
6. Yuri Fudoh ￥36.32M
7. Hiromi Mogi ￥28.84M
8. Rui Kitada ￥28.06M
9. Ayako Uehara ￥25.31M
10. Inbee Park ￥24.33M
11. Kumiko Kaneda ￥22.63M
12. Bo-Bae Song ￥22.35M
13. Shanshan Feng ￥18.92M
14. Yukari Baba ￥17.83M
15. Mayu Hattori ￥17.47M
16. Saiki Fujita ￥16.39M
17. Asako Fujimoto ￥16.36M
18. Mi-Jeong Jeon ￥15.37M
19. Ji-Woo Lee ￥15.19M
20. Teresa Lu ￥15.07M
21. Bo-Mee Lee ￥14.65M
22. Shinobu Moromizato ￥14.33M
23. Hyun-Ju Shin ￥14.19M
24. Akiko Fukushima ￥14.17M
25. Ritsuko Ryu ￥13.90M
26. Momoko Ueda ￥13.77M
27. Eun-A Lim ￥13.68M
28. Rikako Morita ￥13.57M
29. Junko Omote ￥13.42M
30. Ah-Reum Hwang ￥12.92M
31. Na-Ri Lee ￥12.69M
32. Eun-Bi Jang ￥12.22M
33. Young Kim ￥12.01M
34. Ji-Yai Shin ￥11.91M
35. Shiho Oyama ￥11.81M
36. Na-Ri Kim ￥11.42M
37. Kaori Aoyama ￥11.13M
38. Soo-Yun Kang ￥11.09M
39. Esther Lee ￥10.95M
40. Miho Koga ￥10.67M
41. Akane Iijima ￥10.60M
42. So-Hee Kim ￥10.48M
43. Mie Nakata ￥10.25M
44. Nikki Campbell ￥10.11M
45. Yumiko Yoshida ￥9.65M
46. Yeo-Jin Kang ￥8.70M
47. Yuki Ichinose ￥8.16M
48. Megumi Kido ￥8.16M
49. Satsuki Oshiro ￥7.98M
50. Miki Sakai ￥7.48M
Fukushima has extra motivation to put today's disappointment behind her quickly, as she's the defending champion of the CAT Ladies. With none of the dual LPGA-JLPGA members in the field except Shiho Oyama, we could have another Ahn-Fukushima showdown next weekend!
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