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Saturday 7 August 2021LPGA TourYear in Review
Korda wins Olympic women's golf competition
Kasumigaseki Country Club, Japan · Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 August 2021 · Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (held 2021); listed on the 2021 LPGA schedule as an unofficial event with no official money. Batch file end date 2022-08-07 is wrong; Wikipedia gives 4-7 August 2021.
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 37 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
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The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Mone Inami JPN · 268Finished one shot back and beat Lydia Ko in a sudden-death playoff for the silver medal (Wikipedia). Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
- Lydia Ko NZL · 268Finished one shot back and lost the playoff for silver to Mone Inami, taking bronze (Wikipedia). Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
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LPGA event
Olympic women's golf competition
Kasumigaseki Country Club, Kasumigaseki Country Club, Japan
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Nelly Korda
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ESPN.com
7 August 2021
It was very stressful, but I kept it together, I fought pretty hard.
ESPN.com
7 August 2021
With sports it's so different because you're constantly looking ahead. It never really gets to kind of sink in.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nelly Korda | 67 · 62 · 69 · 69 | 267 | −17 |
| 2 | Mone Inami | 70 · 65 · 68 · 65 | 268 | −16 |
| 3 | Lydia Ko | 70 · 67 · 66 · 65 | 268 | −16 |
| 4 | Aditi Ashok | 67 · 66 · 68 · 68 | 269 | −15 |
| T5 | Hannah Green | 71 · 65 · 67 · 68 | 271 | −13 |
| T5 | Emily Kristine Pedersen | 70 · 63 · 70 · 68 | 271 | −13 |
| 7 | Stephanie Meadow | 72 · 66 · 68 · 66 | 272 | −12 |
| 8 | Shanshan Feng | 74 · 64 · 68 · 67 | 273 | −11 |
| T9 | Nasa Hataoka | 70 · 68 · 67 · 69 | 274 | −10 |
| T9 | Kim Sei-young | 69 · 69 · 68 · 68 | 274 | −10 |
| T9 | Ko Jin-young | 68 · 67 · 71 · 68 | 274 | −10 |
| T9 | Lin Xiyu | 71 · 66 · 69 · 68 | 274 | −10 |
| T9 | Nanna Koerstz Madsen | 69 · 64 · 72 · 69 | 274 | −10 |
| T9 | Yuka Saso | 74 · 68 · 67 · 65 | 274 | −10 |
The golfer
born 1998-07-28, Bradenton, Florida, U.S.; USA; age 23 that week; world No. 1 that week (Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings, as stated by ESPN.com ("the No. 1-ranked player"), 2021-08-07).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet