Posted at 3:28 p.m., Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Maui's Miyajima shoots 80 at LPGA Q-School
Advertiser Staff
Maui's Shayna Miyajima shot 8-over 80 today and ranks 130 in a 135-player field after the first round of the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in Daytona Beach, Fla.The top 17 players Sunday after the fifth round will earn 2008 LPGA Tour cards, while the next 35 will receive conditional status.
Miyajima played this season on the Duramed Futures Tour.
Jane Park shot a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke lead over 10-year tour veteran Kelli Kuehne.
The top 17 players Sunday after the fifth round will earn 2008 LPGA Tour cards, while the next 35 will receive conditional status.
Park, the former UCLA star who won the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur, opened with an eagle on the Legends Course, holing out with a 9-iron from 128 yards on No. 10. She birdied the 12th, then had five birdies and bogey on the front nine.
"I just don't want to get ahead of myself," Park said. "I'm going to put my round today in the past. Tomorrow is a whole new day and everyone is playing on the same golf courses. I'm just going to go out there and try to do my best like I did today."
Kuehne had a bogey-free round on the Champions Course.
South Korea's Na Yeon Choi opened with a 68 on the Champions Course.
