Jiyai Shin wrapped up the LPGA Tour's rookie of the year award last week. The 21-year-old South Korean star has her eye on player of the year honors this week in her Mizuno Classic title defense "I won here last year, so to come here I feel very comfortable about this course," Shin said Thursday, a day before the start of play at Kintetsu Kashikojima. "I really like playing in the Japan Tour, so I want to have fun this week." Last year, Shin beat Mayu Hattori by six strokes for the second of three 2008 LPGA Tour victories — all before she became ...
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Updated: November 04, 2009, 22:46 SHIMA, Japan(AP) Jiyai Shin wrapped up the LPGA Tour's rookie of the year award last week. The 21-year-old South Korean star has her eye on player of the year honors this week in her Mizuno Classic title defense "I won here last year, so to come here I feel very comfortable about this course,'' Shin said Thursday, a day before the start of play at Kintetsu Kashikojima. "I really like playing in the Japan Tour, so I want to have fun this week.'' Last year, Shin beat Mayu Hattori by six strokes for the second of three 2008 LPGA ...
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Updated: November 06, 2009, 03:41 SHIMA, Japan(AP) American Brittany Lang shot a 6-under 66 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over Japan's Nobuko Kizawa and South Korea's Hee Young Park after the first round of the Mizuno Classic. "I've had a very good year,'' Lang said. "I've played a lot of really good golf. I always play well this time of the year for some reason, so I just try to practice and have some fun.'' Lang, the long-hitting former Duke star who is winless in four seasons on the LPGA Tour, reached 7 under at Kintetsu Kashikojima with an eagle on the ...
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Updated: November 08, 2009, 00:42 SHIMA, Japan(AP) South Korea's Bo Bae Song won the Mizuno Classic for her first LPGA Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 on Sunday for a three-stroke victory over Lorena Ochoa, Brittany Lang and Hee Young Park. Song finished with a 15-under 201 total at Kintetsu Kashikojima and earned $210,000 in the event co-sanctioned by the Japan LPGA. The top-ranked Ochoa shot a 64, and Lang and Park had 68s. Jiyai Shin, the 2008 winner who is trying to hold off Ochoa in the player of the year points race, closed with a 69 to tie for fifth with ...
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Updated: November 07, 2009, 01:38 SHIMA, Japan (AP) South Korea's Bo Bae Song birdied the final hole for a 7-under 65 and a one-stroke lead in the Mizuno Classic. Song had six birdies in a front-nine 30, then had two birdies and bogey on the final nine holes Saturday to reach 11 under at Kintetsu Kashikojima. Akane Iijima (64) and In-Kyung Kim (65) were tied for second, and Rui Kitada (66) was 9 under in the event sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and Japan LPGA. Defending champion Jiyai Shin (67) was 8 under in a group that included Japanese star Ai Miyazato (67), 2007 ...
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SHIMA, Japan â Shin Ji-yai won the Mizuno Classic for her second LPGA Tour victory of the season and fifth overall win of the year, shooting a 5-under 67 on Sunday to easily hold off Mayu Hattori at Kinetsu Kashikojima. Shin, the 20-year-old South ...
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SHIMA, Japan - Japan's Mayu Hattori and Miki Saiki shot 5-under 67s on Friday to share the Mizuno Classic lead, leaving Women's British Open champion Shin Ji-yai a stroke back in ...
