Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) Akane Iijima surged into a three-shot lead with a course record-tying 7-under 65 in the third round of the Japan LPGA Tour Championship on Saturday. Iijima collected eight birdies against one bogey to reach 8-under 208 in the season-ending major tournament at Miyazaki Country Club.
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Akane Iijima went off on moving day at the Ricoh Cup . She opened with a pair of birdies, then fired a trio just before finishing the front, where she shot a 31. Another pair of birdies early on the back got her to -7 on the day, where she ended up, thanks to her lone bogey on the par-4 15th, which she offset with her last birdie of the day on the par-4 17th. Iijima's 65 vaulted...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... wasn't enough for her 6th victory of 2009. Here's how the final round played out. 3rd-round leader Akane Iijima started off slow, opening the door to the rest of the field instead of building on her 3-shot lead at the start of the day. By the time she reached the 6th tee, she had slipped from -8 to -6. Her playing partner, Mayu Hattori, could only make up a single stroke, as she was...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... (68-73-72) T37/-2 Sakura Yokomine (74-70-70), Yuko Saitoh (72-69-73) T40/-1 Esther Lee (73-69-73), Akane Iijima (72-70-73), Erina Hara (71-71-73) T47/E Saiki Fujita (73-71-72), Yun-Jye Wei (74-69-73) 54th/+4 Yuki Ichinose (69-74-77) With 1 week to go in the money-list race , Moromizato's 7-shot lead on Yokomine this week didn't translate into that much of a bigger lead in yen. And...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... (72-70), Ji-Hee Lee (72-70), Miho Koga (71-71) T8/-1 Mayu Hattoru (75-68), Ai Miyazato (74-69), Akane Iijima (74-69), Chie Arimura (73-70), Eun-A Lim (70-73) 13th/E Bo-Bae Song (73-71) 14th/+1 Miki Saiki (74-71) 15th/+2 Nikki Campbell (73-73) T16/+3 Ayako Uehara (72-75), Tamie Durdin (72-75) T18/+4 Rui Kitada (76-72), Ah-Reum Hwang (72-76) 20th/+5 Yuko Saitoh (77-72) T21/+6 Akiko...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) Sakura Yokomine clinched her first money rankings title on Sunday after overturning a five-shot deficit to win the season-ending Japan LPGA Tour Championship.Yokomine made four birdies and a bogey in a 3-under 69 and collected her sixth win of the season on 6-under 282 at Miyazaki Country Club.Overnight leader Akane Iijima (75) and Shinobu Moromizato (71), who had led...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... course.South Korean Ku Oku Hee set the record at the 2003 Daikin Orchid Ladies and was matched by Akane Iijima at the Kosaido Ladies Golf Cup last year.Harukyo Nomura, a 16-year-old amateur from South Korea, shot a 66 to sit alone in second. Toshimi Kimura also carded a 66 and was another stroke back in third.Joint overnight leader Nikki Campbell of Australia (70) dropped to fourth...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... (74-73-70), Yuriko Ohtsuka (74-73-70), Tomoko Kusakabe (70-74-73) T13/+2 Na-Ri Lee (71-76-71), Akane Iijima (72-73-73), Hiromi Mogi (70-74-74) T17/+3 Shinobu Moromizato (71-73-75), Yuko Mitsuka (70-72-77) T21/+4 Maiko Wakabayashi (76-72-72), Yumiko Yoshida (74-71-75), Nikki Campbell (73-71-76) T25/+5 Rui Kitada (71-75-75), Ah-Reum Hwang (72-72-77) T30/+6 Mai Arai (74-75-73), Yuri...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... of these players be unable to compete that week and new ones step up, like Rui Kitada, Erina Hara, Akane Iijima, Rikako Morita, Hiromi Mogi, Maiko Wakabayashi, or Mayu Hattori? I wish the JLPGA and KLPGA would set their collective minds on eliminating this scheduling conflict with JLPGA Q-School. How are they going to follow my much more ambitious suggestion for hooking up with the...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Bo Bae Song fired a seven-under 65 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over fellow South Korean In-Kyung Kim and Japan's Akane Iijima through two rounds of the Mizuno Classic.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Bo Bae Song fired a seven-under 65 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over fellow South Korean In-Kyung Kim and Japan's Akane Iijima through two rounds of the Mizuno Classic.
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... (71), and In-Kyung Kim (72), but they did finish T12 with Song-Hee Kim (71), Eun-A Lim (69), and Akane Iijima (73). Ji Young Oh 's 7-birdie 67 won't get that much attention, to be sure, as it only moved her up to T37, nor does it deserve as much as Daisuke Maruyama's 63 or Shingo Katayama's 65. Here's hoping the golfy media don't miss the forest for the trees, though. Whereas the...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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...
Mostly Harmless (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... her final 4 holes to post a 65. Yet Song's walkoff birdie is the only thing keeping her ahead of Akane Iijima , who opened with a 31 of her own and kept the pedal to the metal on the back, firing a 33 that lifted her to -10 overall and into a tie with In-Kyung Kim , who birdied 7 of her last 12 holes and has gone -10 in her last 29 holes of bogey-free golf. Rui Kitada 's 7-birdie...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
SHIMA, Mie Pref. (Kyodo) South Korean Song Bo Bae fired a 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Mizuno Classic on Saturday.Song, winner of last month's Japan Women's Open, reeled off six birdies in a flawless front nine and, after bogeying the 13th, picked up two more strokes on Nos. 15 and 18 to reach 11-under 133 at Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club.Akane Iijima...
