
Sakura Yokomine, 2013 Nobuta Group Masters GC Ladies winner
They say you can’t win a tournament on day one, but you can lose it. Maybe so, but perhaps Sakura Yokomine won the 2013 Nobuta Group Masters GC Ladies (JLPGA) on the second day. Facing a strong field that included LPGA standout Shanshan Feng, Sakura opened up with a solid 2-under 70. It was on day two that she would distance herself from the field with a spectacular 9-under 63. Her round featured no bogeys against 9 birdies, including 4 birdies in the last 5 holes. The closest anybody could shoot was a trio of players at 68 on day two, including Shanshan. At 11-under, she led the field by 5 strokes with one day to play. All she had to do was not collapse. She didn’t. While she didn’t match her sensational round of 63, she did what she had to do in the final round, with 4 birdies and 3 bogeys giving her a 1-under round, good enough for 12-under overall and a 3 shot victory over Sun-Ju Ahn. The win is the 21st LPGA of Japan (JLPGA) victory in Sakura’s stellar career and her 3rd title this year. She also closes the distance between her and current 2013 JLPGA Money List leader Rikako Morita. Sakura won the money list title in 2010 with a record 175,016,384 yen (close to 1.8 million USD).
SAKURA YOKOMINE
SHANSHAN FENG
SHIHO OYAMA
SUN-JU AHN
YUKO SAITOH
AIRI SUGIMOTO
BO-MEE LEE
HIROKO FUKUSHIMA
MISUZU NARITA
MOMOKO UEDA
RIKAKO MORITA
Position | Player | ToPar | Thru | Today | 1R | 2R | 3R | 4R |
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1 | Sakura Yokomine | -12 | F | -1 | 70 | 63 | 71 | |
2 | Sun-Ju Ahn | -9 | F | -3 | 69 | 69 | 69 | |
3T | Momoko Ueda | -8 | F | -3 | 69 | 70 | 69 | |
Shan-Shan Feng | -8 | F | -2 | 70 | 68 | 70 | ||
5T | Misuzu Narita | -6 | F | -5 | 72 | 71 | 67 | |
Shiho Oyama | -6 | F | -1 | 70 | 69 | 71 | ||
7T | Hiroko Fukushima | -5 | F | -3 | 74 | 68 | 69 | |
Bo-Mee Lee | -5 | F | -2 | 73 | 68 | 70 | ||
9T | Maiko Wakabayashi | -4 | F | -4 | 73 | 71 | 68 | |
Yuko Saitoh | -4 | F | -3 | 71 | 72 | 69 | ||
Phoebe Yao | -4 | F | +2 | 69 | 69 | 74 | ||
12T | Ah-Reum Hwang | -3 | F | -3 | 74 | 70 | 69 | |
Shiho Toyonaga | -3 | *F | -5 | 76 | 70 | 67 | ||
Harukyo Nomura | -3 | *F | -5 | 74 | 72 | 67 | ||
Ayako Uehara | -3 | F | -1 | 70 | 72 | 71 | ||
16T | Yukari Baba | -2 | *F | -3 | 71 | 74 | 69 | |
Yuko Fukuda | -2 | F | -2 | 72 | 72 | 70 | ||
Airi Sugimoto | -2 | F | -1 | 72 | 71 | 71 | ||
Ji-Hee Lee | -2 | F | -1 | 69 | 74 | 71 | ||
Da-Ye Na | -2 | F | E | 69 | 73 | 72 | ||
21T | Esther Lee | -1 | F | E | 72 | 71 | 72 | |
Erina Hara | -1 | F | +2 | 71 | 70 | 74 | ||
Rikako Morita | -1 | F | +3 | 68 | 72 | 75 | ||
Miki Sakai | -1 | F | +3 | 70 | 70 | 75 | ||
25T | Young Kim | E | F | -1 | 74 | 71 | 71 | |
Yumiko Yoshida | E | F | E | 72 | 72 | 72 | ||
Asako Fujimoto | E | *F | -2 | 72 | 74 | 70 | ||
Ji-Woo Lee | E | *F | -2 | 73 | 73 | 70 | ||
29T | Rie Tsuji | +1 | *F | E | 74 | 71 | 72 | |
Lala Anai | +1 | F | +1 | 72 | 72 | 73 | ||
Yuko Mitsuka | +1 | *F | E | 72 | 73 | 72 | ||
Eun-Bi Jang | +1 | F | +2 | 72 | 71 | 74 | ||
Rui Kitada | +1 | F | +3 | 70 | 72 | 75 | ||
34T | Teresa Lu | +2 | *F | +1 | 73 | 72 | 73 | |
Soo-Yun Kang | +2 | *F | +1 | 74 | 71 | 73 | ||
Yun-Joo Jeong | +2 | *F | +1 | 72 | 73 | 73 | ||
O.Sattaya | +2 | F | +3 | 70 | 73 | 75 | ||
Yuri Fudoh | +2 | *F | E | 72 | 74 | 72 | ||
Tomomi Hirose | +2 | *F | E | 73 | 73 | 72 | ||
40T | Airi Saitoh | +3 | F | +2 | 74 | 71 | 74 | |
Kaori Yamamoto | +3 | F | +2 | 73 | 72 | 74 | ||
Hiroko Azuma | +3 | F | +3 | 70 | 74 | 75 | ||
Nachiyo Ohtani | +3 | *F | +2 | 72 | 73 | 74 | ||
Megumi Kido | +3 | *F | +2 | 72 | 73 | 74 | ||
45 | Rino Kotake | +4 | *F | +2 | 74 | 72 | 74 | |
46T | Tomoko Yokoyama | +5 | *F | +4 | 73 | 72 | 76 | |
Junko Omote | +5 | *F | +3 | 72 | 74 | 75 | ||
Mihoko Iseri | +5 | *F | +3 | 74 | 72 | 75 | ||
Na-Ri Kim | +5 | *F | +3 | 73 | 73 | 75 | ||
50 | Mayu Hattori | +6 | *F | +4 | 75 | 71 | 76 | |
51 | So-Hee Kim | +7 | *F | +5 | 77 | 69 | 77 |
2013 JLPGA WINNERS (NUMBERS IN PARENTHESES REPRESENT CAREER JLPGA WINS)
2013 JLPGA MONEY LIST TOP 5 THROUGH NOBUTA GROUP MASTERS GC LADIES
Ranking | Name | Amount | Average | Matches | Number of rounds |
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1 | Rikako Morita | ¥104,658,571 | 70.9890 | 30 | 91R |
2 | Sakura Yokomine | ¥100,866,570 | 70.5413 | 28 | 87R |
3 | Miki Saiki | ¥79,742,428 | 71.1136 | 25 | 71R |
4 | Yumiko Yoshida | ¥71,871,903 | 71.4108 | 30 | 88R |
5 | Sun Ju Ahn | ¥71,831,680 | 70.3943 | 23 | 69R |