{"id":259850,"date":"2022-11-03T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=259850"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:47:27","slug":"toto-japan-classic-2022-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/toto-japan-classic-2022-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"TOTO Japan Classic R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019 champion Ai Suzuki, and 2007 and 2011 champion Momoko Ueda both carded 7-under 65s and are two of the eight Japanese players tied for sixth or better after the first round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ai Suzuki -7<br \/>Momoko Ueda -7<\/p>\n<p>Past champions take the clubhouse lead in Japan<\/p>\n<p>Watch now on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfChannel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GolfChannel<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nB5Gb4wYUS\">pic.twitter.com\/nB5Gb4wYUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LPGA (@LPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPGA\/status\/1588040031687438336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy shots were not consistent in the first 4 holes then I made a little adjustment in my swing. After that my shots are getting better and never miss the fairway. Shots are good and putting are also well. So, I feel like I could go to -10 today,\u201d said a bogey-free Suzuki.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki, who did not take LPGA Tour Membership following her win in 2019, has earned five top-10 finishes this season on the JLPGA, including a season-best T3 at the AXA LADIES GOLF TOURNAMENT. She entered the week ninth on the JLPGA in first-round scoring, averaging 70.59 this season. Suzuki\u2019s last win on the JLPGA came at the 2021 SHIDEIDO Ladies Open, the 17th of her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutting is good this week. Hope to keep it and try to keep the fairway as much as possible, then it will bring a big chance for me,\u201d said Suzuki.<\/p>\n<p>Ueda, a 16-time JLPGA winner, is playing in her 13th TOTO Japan Classic, and is tied with Jiyai Shin for most appearances in the co-sanctioned event of those playing this week. Ueda is making her third LPGA Tour appearance this season in Shiga, after finishing T13 at the HSBC Women\u2019s World Championship and missing the cut at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open at Pine Needles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just a good 1st round. I do not think about it very much at this moment. I just want to focus on each day from tomorrow as well, said Ueda, who departed from the LPGA Tour after the 2013 season. \u201cI changed shaft for driver and also putter. I normally do not change my putter pretty often but it works very well this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 JLPGA champion of the event, Ayaka Furue, carded a 6-under 66 is tied in third place with Sakura Koiwai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played very aggressively until the 10th hole. But, I missed the green on the 11th hole and made a bogey. Since then I could not play aggressively today,\u201d said Furue. \u201cI hope to play well for the next three days as a Japanese player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four-time JLPGA winner Miyuu Yamashita, who currently ranks first on the 2022 JLPGA Money List thanks to three victories in this year alone, is in solo fifth after a 5-under 67<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a> Yamashita also leads the JLPGA in top-10 finishes (18) and scoring average (70. 16) this year<a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/event\/toto-japan-classic-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a> She is playing in her second-ever LPGA Tour event, following her debut at the 2022 AIG Women\u2019s Open, where she finished in a tie for 13th.<\/p>\n<parone-video-block feed=\"8-golf-today-web\" env=\"prod\" stylesheet=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/gt-news\/assets\/css\/parone.css\" autoplay=\"true\" autoplaymuted=\"true\" defaultlang=\"en\" hide-all=\"false\" hide-title=\"true\" hide-logo=\"true\" hide-description=\"true\"  content-key=\"0e71e30f042a526ECD1C\"  ><\/parone-video-block>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzuki &#038; Ueda tied at 7-under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lpga","category-the_tours"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v23.8) - 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