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Sakura Koiwai
(born 15 April 1998) is a Japanese professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she has eight victories. Career Koiwai was born in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido in 1998 and started playing golf when she was 8 years old. She won the Hokkaido Amateur Championship in 2014 and 2016. Koiwai turned professional and joined the LPGA of Japan Tour in 2017. In 2018, she recorded four runner-up finishes to rank 8th on the money list, and won the PGA Rookie of the Year award and the Japan Professional Sports Rookie of the Year award. She captured the 2019 Samantha Thavasa Girls Collection Ladies Tournament for her maiden win on the JLPGA. Her lone victory in 2020 was the Golf5 Ladies. In 2021, Koiwai recorded four wins and three second-place finishes, to finish 3rd on the 2020–21 money list with over 200 million yen in season earnings. In mid-2021, she rose into the top-50 in the Women's World Golf Rankings The Women's World Golf Rankings, also known for sponsorship reas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido
is a city located in Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan. "Kita" is the Japanese word for "north", so the town's name, ''Kitahiroshima-shi'', is translated as "North-Hiroshima city" or "city of North-Hiroshima". As of April 30, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 58,918, with 27,221 households, and the density of 500 persons per km2. The total area is . History On September 1, 1996, Hiroshima town was reorganized to promote city status, but Hiroshima city already existed, on the west of Honshu island. Therefore, Hiroshima was renamed to Kitahiroshima on that day. *1884: 25 families, 107 people migrated from Hiroshima. *1894: Hiroshima village was founded. *1968: Hiroshima village became Hiroshima town. *1996: Hiroshima town became Hiroshima city and was renamed Kitahiroshima. Education Universities Private * Seisa Dohto University Official website（星槎道都大学公式サイト） High schools Public * Hokkaido Kitahiroshima High School * Hokkaido Kitahiroshima N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NEC Karuizawa 72 Golf Tournament
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT) platform, and telecommunications equipment and software to business enterprises, communications services providers and to government agencies, and has also been the biggest PC vendor in Japan since the 1980s when it launched the PC-8000 series. NEC was the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer by 1990. Its semiconductors business unit was the world's largest semiconductor company by annual revenue from 1985 to 1992, the second largest in 1995, one of the top three in 2000, and one of the top 10 in 2006. NEC spun off its semiconductor business to Renesas Electronics and Elpida Memory. Once Japan's major electronics company, NEC has largely withdrawn from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportspeople From Hokkaido
An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the el, άθλητὴς, ''athlētēs'', one who participates in a contest; from ἄθλος, ''áthlos'' or ἄθλον, ''áthlon'', a contest or feat. The primary definition of "sportsman" according to Webster's ''Third Unabridged Dictionary'' (1960) is, "a person who is active in sports: as (a): one who engages in the sports of the field and especially in hunting or fishing." Physiology Athletes involved in isotonic exercises have an increased mean left ventricular end-diastolic volume and are less likely to be depressed. Due to their strenuous physical activities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LPGA Of Japan Tour Golfers
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female professional golfers from around the world. Organization and history Other "LPGAs" exist in other countries, each with a geographical designation in its name, but the U.S. organization is the first, largest, and best known. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching professionals. This is different from the PGA Tour, which runs the main professional tours in the U.S. and, since 1968, has been independent of the club and teaching professionals' organization, the PGA of America. The LPGA also administers an annual qualifying school similar to that conducted by the PGA Tour. Depending on a golfer's finish in the final qualifying tournament, she may receive full or partial playing p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Female Golfers
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Mao Saigo
(born 8 October 2001) is a Japanese professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour where she won three of the first five tournaments of the 2022 season. Career Saigo was born in Funabashi in Greater Tokyo and won the Japan Women's Amateur Championship in 2019. She turned professional and joined the LPGA of Japan Tour in 2020. In 2021, she was runner-up seven times to finish 4th on the 2020–21 money list. In the 2022 season, she recorded three wins and two second place finishes in the first six tournaments, after which she rose to 18th in the Women's World Golf Rankings The Women's World Golf Rankings, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Rolex Rankings, were introduced in February 2006. They are sanctioned by eight women's golf tours and the organisations behind them: Ladies Professional Golf Association ( .... Saigo has endorsement deals with Mizuno Golf, Shimadzu, Fila & GS Yuasa Amateur wins *2019 Japan Women's Amateur Championship Professional wins L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kana Nagai
The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most prominent magana system being ; the two descendants of man'yōgana, (2) , and (3) . There are also , which are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana. In current usage, 'kana' can simply mean ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. Katakana, with a few additions, are also used to write Ainu. A number of systems exist to write the Ryūkyūan languages, in particular Okinawan, in hiragana. Taiwanese kana were used in Taiwanese Hokkien as glosses (ruby text or ''furigana'') for Chinese characters in Taiwan when it was under Japanese rule. Each kana character (syllabogram) corresponds to one sound or whole syllable in the Japanese language, unlike kanji regular script, which corresponds to a meaning (logogram). Apart from the five vowels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Ladies Honda Golf Tournament
Stanley may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film * ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy * ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short * ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series), an American situation comedy * ''Stanley'' (2001 TV series), an American animated series Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Stanley'' (play), by Pam Gems, 1996 * Stanley Award, an Australian Cartoonists' Association award * '' Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston'', a video game * Stanley (Cars), a character in ''Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales'' * '' The Stanley Parable'', a 2011 video game developed by Galactic Cafe, and its titular character, Stanley Businesses and organisations * Stanley, Inc., American information technology company * Stanley Aviation, American aerospace company * Stanley Black & Decker, formerly The Stanley Works, American hardware manufacturer ** Stanley knife, a utility knife * Stanley bottle, a brand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Suganuma
Nana, Nanna, Na Na or NANA may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nana (given name), including a list of people and characters with the given name * Nana (surname), including a list of people and characters with the surname * Nana (chief) (died 1896), Mimbreño Apache chief * Nana (deejay) (born 1983), Malaysian ''Akademi Fantasia'' contestant * Nana (entertainer) (born 1991), a member of popular South Korean girl group ''After School'' * Nana (rapper) (born 1968), German rapper and DJ * Nana Astar Deviluke, a character in the manga series ''To Love Ru'' * Nana, a member of the South Korean girl group Woo!ah! * Nana, female UK garage singer, most notably on the song " Body Groove" by Architechs * Lulu and Nana (born 2018), pseudonyms for twin Chinese girls, who are allegedly the first humans produced from embryos that were genome-edited * Nana, name used for the Ngaanyatjarra people of Western Australia Arts and entertainment Films * ''Nana'' (1926 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resort Trust Ladies
The Resort Trust Ladies golf tournament is an annual event on the LPGA of Japan Tour. It was first played in 1993. It was held in variety of courses in Honshu island, this year at Kansai Golf Club in Miki-shi. In 2021, the prize money is ¥80,000,000. Winners *2022 Sakura Koiwai *2021 Minami Katsu *2020 ''Cancelled'' *2019 Erika Hara *2018 Eri Okayama *2017 Kang Soo-yun *2016 Junko Omote *2015 Teresa Lu *2014 Teresa Lu *2013 Mamiko Higa *2012 Jeon Mi-jeong *2011 Sakura Yokomine *2010 Yoshimi Koda *2009 Jeon Mi-jeong *2008 Jeon Mi-jeong *2007 Momoko Ueda *2006 Mie Nakata *2005 Mitsuko Kawasaki *2004 Hiromi Mogi *2003 Yuri Fudoh *2002 Kozue Azuma *2001 Aki Takamura *2000 Yuri Fudoh *1999 Hiromi Takamura *1998 Kaori Harada *1997 Fumiko Muraguchi is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings *文子 (sentence, child) - also can be read as "Ayako" *富美子 or 冨美子 (wealthy beautiful child) *芙美子 (hibiscus, beautiful child) *史子 (historical child) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 LPGA Of Japan Tour
The 2022 LPGA of Japan Tour was the 54th season of the LPGA of Japan Tour, the professional golf tour for women operated by the Japan Ladies Professional Golfers' Association. Leading money winner was Miyū Yamashita with ¥235,020,967. She also won the ''Mercedes Ranking'', had the highest scoring average and finished most often (21 times) inside the top-10. Schedule The results of the season are given in the table below. "Date" is the end date of the tournament. The number in parentheses after winners' names shows the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA of Japan Tour, including that event. Events in bold are majors. ^ The Toto Japan Classic was co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:LPGA of Japan Tour 2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayaka Takahashi (golfer)
is a retired Japanese badminton player who was a singles specialist. She was the bronze medalist at the 2013 and 2014 Asian Championships. Takahashi reached a career high as world number 10 in the BWF World Ranking in February 2019. Personal life Takahashi is the younger sister of Ayaka Takahashi, who is a badminton doubles player. Achievements Asian Championships ''Women's singles'' BWF World Tour (4 titles, 2 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles'' BWF Grand Prix (3 titles, 3 runners-up) The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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