Meiji Cup Sunday: Ji-Yai Shin Outduels Teresa Lu to Take 7th JLPGA Title

Ji-Yai Shin held a 1-shot lead on Teresa Lu to start the final round of the Meiji Cup, matched her opening 33 as the 2 former LPGAers opened up a gap on the field, extended her lead to 2 shots with a birdie on the par-4 10th, traded a bogey with her on the back, and sealed the deal by matching Lu's birdie on the par-5 18th.  Shin, who shocked the golf world by 1st planning to split her time between the LPGA and JLPGA in 2014 and later deciding to focus exclusively on the JLPGA, is on quite a roll of late.  The former world #1 player has now won 2 of her last 4 JLPGA starts, going -49 during that stretch and moving up to #5 on the tour's money list.  I'll have more on the final results and their implications this evening!

[Update 1 (9:23 pm):  Nice 66s in the final round by Lala Anai, Saiki Fujita, and Shiho Toyonaga.  Anai birdied 4 of her last 5 holes to do it!  With a solid finish by Bo-Mee Lee, the JLPGA money list is tightening up even further!

1. Sun-Ju Ahn ￥85.73M
2. Bo-Mee Lee ￥82.53M
3. Misuzu Narita ￥68.36M
4. Miki Sakai ￥59.00M
5. Ji-Yai Shin ￥55.53M
6. Erina Hara ￥44.09M
7. Teresa Lu ￥42.37M
8. Ayaka Watanabe ￥38.30M
9. Onnarin Sattayabanphot ￥37.84M
10. Esther Lee ￥34.99M
11. Mi-Jeong Jeon ￥33.23M
12. Lala Anai ￥32.58M
13. Yuki Ichinose ￥31.61M
14. Rikako Morita ￥31.29M
15. Ritsuko Ryu ￥31.25M
16. Ji-Hee Lee ￥27.65M

17. Phoebe Yao ￥27.36M
18. Na-Ri Lee ￥25.58M
19. Hikari Fujita ￥24.90M
20. Mayu Hattori ￥24.15M
21. Saiki Fujita ￥23.48M
22. Shiho Oyama ￥22.97M
23. Sakura Yokomine ￥21.42M
24. Kaori Ohe ￥21.10M
25. Yeon-Ju Jung ￥20.52M
26. Yukari Baba ￥20.28M
27. Shanshan Feng ￥20.04M
28. Mami Fukuda ￥19.38M
29. Asako Fujimoto ￥19.27M
30. Junko Omote ￥18.90M
31. Momoko Ueda ￥18.69M
32. Mamiko Higa ￥18.59M

33. Rumi Yoshiba ￥17.82M
34. Soo-Yun Kang ￥17.57M
35. Megumi Kido ￥16.80M
36. Yumiko Yoshida ￥16.74M
37. Akane Iijima ￥16.52M

38. Natsuka Hori ￥16.13M
39. Kotono Kozuma ￥15.62M
40. Miki Saiki ￥14.90M

More tomorrow!]