Yonex Ladies Overview: Shanshan Feng Defeats Yukari Baba in Playoff for 3rd Career JLPGA Win

22-year-old Shanshan Feng birdied 4 of her last 13 holes in the final round of the Yonex Ladies to blow past Ritsuko Ryu and Serena Aoki and force a playoff with Yukari Baba, which she won on the 2nd hole for her 3rd JLPGA victory in the last season and a half.

The 24-year-old Ryu, who's having the best season in her career, birdied 4 of her 1st 7 holes to get to -10 for the week, but couldn't make another birdie the rest of the way and made 3 bogeys to fall 1 shot out of the playoff, tied with 23-year-old Bo-Mee Lee (who fired the low round of the week, a 6-birdie 67, today) for 3rd.  Meanwhile, the 19-year-old Aoki, playing in only her 4th JLPGA event of her career, got it to -9 when she birdied the par-5 6th, but also went birdieless the rest of the way and made 3 bogeys in the middle of her round to end up in a tie for 5th with Teresa Lu.

With the top 3 players on the JLPGA money list taking the week off, nobody else in their lead chase pack could make a big move on them, although Sakura Yokomine did get a top 10.

1. Sun-Ju Ahn ￥40.05M
2. Mi-Jeong Jeon ￥38.03M
3. Ji-Hee Lee ￥35.23M
4. Ritsuko Ryu ￥33.39M
5. Bo-Mee Lee ￥29.50M
6. Inbee Park ￥28.27M
7. Shanshan Feng ￥24.28M
8. Hiromi Mogi ￥23.28M
9. Sakura Yokomine ￥22.77M
10. Maiko Wakabayashi ￥21.34M
11. Chie Arimura ￥20.86M
12. Mayu Hattori ￥20.46M
13. Miki Saiki ￥20.35M
14. Kaori Ohe ￥19.61M
15. Rikako Morita ￥17.08M
16. Mihoko Iseri ￥15.46M
17. Airi Saitoh ￥15.25M
18. Ji-Yai Shin ￥13.88M
19. Soo-Yun Kang ￥13.54M
20. Ayako Uehara ￥13.47M
21. Akane Iijima ￥13.45M
22. Teresa Lu ￥11.47M
23. Yukari Baba ￥11.13M
24. Erina Hara ￥10.69M
25. Yuki Ichinose ￥9.77M
26. Erika Kikuchi ￥9.66M
27. Miki Sakai ￥9.42M
28. Yumiko Yoshida ￥9.41M
29. Yuko Fukuda ￥9.25M
30. Kumiko Kaneda ￥8.87M
31. Esther Lee ￥8.55M
32. Harukyo Nomura ￥8.04M
33. Shinobu Moromizato ￥7.95M
34. Na-Ri Lee￥7.72M
35. Rui Kitada ￥7.65M
36. Li-Ying Ye ￥7.32M
37. So-Hee Kim ￥7.26M
38. Yuri Fudoh ￥7.11M
39. Yuko Mitsuka ￥6.32M
40. Na-Ri Kim ￥6.30M
41. Young Kim￥6.08M
42. Nikki Campbell ￥6.05M
43. Da-Ye Na ￥5.89M
44. Asako Fujimoto ￥5.79M
45. Eun-Bi Jang￥5.42M
46. Megumi Kido ￥5.29M
47. Nachiyo Ohtani ￥4.61M
48. Saiki Fujita ￥4.54M
49. Satsuki Oshiro ￥4.28M
50. Hiroko Fukushima ￥4.22M

Yokomine defends her title next week at the Resort Trust Ladies.  Let's see if she can turn her season around in a week when all the dual LPGA-JLPGA members will be back on the LPGA.

[Update 1 (5:36 pm): Here's bangkokbobby's final-round post!]