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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Japan Golf Tour

Golf season in Japan have just started, today Japan tour begins with The Token Homemate Cup tournament.

Tournament is held at Token Tado Country Club in Nagoya with prize amount of 130 million yens (1.4 million dollars). The Tour has a schedule of 25 tournaments, finishing in first week of December. Scores, stats, and more can be found into Japan Golf Tour site.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Final Round Masters 2010

Masters 2010 came to its end with an splendid Phil Mickelson getting his 3rd green Jacket.
He played so consistent all rounds, but a hole who rocketed him was indeed Hole 13, where he got 6 under during the tournament, hitting 2 eagles and 2 birdies. Public really enjoyed,as Mickelson is unique to get to spectators through his game and behavior. It was so emotive to see at the end of the tournament how he hugged his wife Amy.

K.J. Choi made a good round but after bogeying the 13th his play was getting lack of the "force" of his round start. Getting a T4 with 11 under.

Tiger Woods started round with 3 over in the first 5 holes. Even with his capacity of recovery, which didn't appear as expected, could finish the round with 3 under tied 4 position with K.J. Choi.

Two incredible rounds of Anthony Kim and Nick Watney scoring 65 were remarkable this Sunday as well.

Ikeda Yuta finished positioned at 29 with a round of 1 under. He played very consistent during all tournament. Maintaining this game surely we will see him to achieve some tour win.

Friday, April 9, 2010

2nd round Masters 2010

This round was tougher than first day. England is controlling the leaderboard with Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood, tied 1 with 8 under.

Ryo Ishikawa, out of expectation for all Japan, missed the cut for consecutive year. Last hole bogey took him out to follow for the weekend.

Shingo Katayama it seems was not done since the beginning of tournament, missed the cut with 8 over.
Ikeda Yuta is the only japanese to keep for the weekend. So many mistakes to finish the day scoring 77 with 2 painful holes of Double and Triple bogey.

Tiger Woods is swinging well, and leaderboard shows it in a T3 position, he is indeed still the man to beat , even after his absence these months from the tour.

Phil Mickelson really feel comfortable at Augusta, finishing usually in Top 10 and tied 3 with 6 under.
Fread Couples could not repeat yesterday's round. "I needed to be at 5, 6 under, to be realistic, I'm not out of it, but 75 is not a great score" He said. He falls to T9 3 under as same as T. Watson who keep us surprised.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

First round of Masters 2010

Masters already began and brought us some nice surprises besides the greatest show everybody was expecting.

Brief highlights of Japanese players:

-Ryo Ishikawa: Positioned T32 at PAR. Started the round with Birdies at 1st and 2nd hole, but next to holes were bogeyed. Got another 3 birdies at 8th,9th and 15th.

-Ikeda Yuta: Great round on his first Masters. Played very solid. Positioned T17 with 2 under. Birdied 6th, 13th, 15th and 16th. Nice shot on 16th par3.

-Shingo Katayama: did not find his game in this first round. Fell down to +4 and finally could steal a shot birdieing 15th hole. Positioned T63 wuth 3 over.

Surprising Tom Watson being 2nd tied with Mickelson, K.J. Choi, Lee Westwood and Y.E. Yang with a rounds of 67. But first position was for other veteran, Fred Couples, scoring the lowest in his Masters tournaments, got 6 under.

Tiger Woods' back to the game was not a deception. Expectation was granted with those magical shots which he only can achieve. Positioned at T7 with 4 under.