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is a Japanese professional golfer who currently competes on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA).
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For the LPGA Tour, however, summer begins this weekend, fittingly enough at a shore resort.Twenty-one of the top 25 players in the world rankings will take the course Friday, as the ShopRite LPGA Classic begins at the Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club, just a few miles from Atlantic City.The 54-hole affair marks the start of a stretch of five tournaments over the next six weeks, two of them major championships. Brittany Lincicome will defend her title against 143 challengers who will be going after a $1.5 million purse. The champion will collect $225,000.The field features all seven players who have won official LPGA events so far this season, including top-ranked Yani Tseng, along with Ai Miyazato, Stacy Lewis, Sun Young Yoo, Angela Stanford, Jessica Korda, and Azahara Munoz.It also includes Morgan Pressel, fresh off her semifinal loss to Munoz at the Sybase Match Play Championship two weeks ago in an even...With no event last week, there was no movement inside the top 20 of this week's official world rankings.Yani Tseng remained in first, followed by Na Yeon Choi, Suzan...
PGA TOUR - MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio - The field is loaded for this week's tournament honoring the most prolific winner in PGA T...
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — There's a new No. 1 player in women's golf — Ai Miyazato of Japan.Dominating the LPGA Tour in a way akin to Annika Sorenstam and Loren...
Ai Miyazato was in uncharacteristic territory to start the final round of the LPGA Safeway Classic.She was nervous.While Miyazato normally appears composed, the jitt...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Women's golf has a new No. 1 player in Ai Miyazato of Japan .Miyazato (Me-uh-ZAH-tow) leads the latest Rolex Rankings released Monday foll...
PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Japanese star Ai Miyazato rallied to win the season-opening Honda PTT LPGA Thailand on Sunday, holing a 30-foot birdie chip on the final hol...
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Ai Miyazato is trying to spoil Lorena Ochoa's going-away party.Miyazato, the Japanese star who won the first two events of the LPGA Tour seaso...
SINGAPORE (AP) — Ai Miyazato won the HSBC Champions on Sunday to become the first LPGA Tour player in 44 years to sweep the first two events of a season, closing wit...
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Ai Miyazato handled the gusting, canyon-blown wind better than her two long-hitting playing partners.Miyazato moved into position for her thir...
Azahara Munoz' victory Sunday at the Sybase Match Play Championship moved her inside the top of this week's world rankings.Munoz vaulted up eight spots to No. 19.Yan...
Stacy Lewis is the top American left in the Sybase Match Play Championship, and it's really not a surprise.Lewis has been the best American on the LPGA Tour all seas...
Suzann Pettersen won't be successfully defending her title after Jodi Ewart eliminated the third seed in Thursday's first round of the Sybase Match Play Championship...
Ai Miyazato and Azahara Munoz both went well below par Thursday, and are tied for the lead after two rounds of the LPGA LOTTE Championship.Munoz fired an eight-under...
Japan's Ai Miyazato shot a 2-under 70 on Friday in difficult wind conditions to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the LPGA LOTTE Championship.The seve...
Japan's Ai Miyazato won the LPGA LOTTE Championship on Saturday for her eighth career LPGA Tour title, birdieing three of the last six holes for a 2-under 70 and a f...
Spain's Azahara Munoz shot an 8-under 64 in blustery conditions Thursday for a share of the second-round lead with Japan's Ai Miyazato in the LPGA LOTTE Championship...
Ai Miyazato shot a 5-under 67 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Thailand .The 2010 champion from Japan opened with a birdie and ha...
Ai Miyazato shot a 7-under 65 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Yani Tseng after the third round of the LPGA Thailand.Miyazato, the Japanese play...
Former champion Ai Miyazato of Japan shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday to take a two-shot lead after the third round at the Evian Masters.Miyazato, who won her first LPG...
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