Harukyo Nomura Will Play Full-Time on the LPGA in 2014

Harukyo Nomura got the last valuable spot in LPGA Q-School a few days ago and she wasted no time in petitioning the JLPGA to suspend her membership for 2014.  With her petition granted, we can expect that she'll be playing a full schedule on the LPGA next season, along with Ai Miyazato, Mika Miyazato, Chie Arimura, and Ayako Uehara.  The only dual LPGA-JLPGA members in 2014 will be Momoko Ueda, Shanshan Feng, Ji-Yai Shin, and Teresa Lu.  That's a far cry from the depths of the economic downturn, when dual membership was the choice of a significant number of top female golfers....