2016 LPGA of Japan Tour

The 2016 LPGA of Japan Tour was the 49th season of the LPGA of Japan Tour, the professional golf tour for women operated by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan. The 2016 schedule included 38 official events.

Lee Bo-mee won five tournaments and was the leading money winner with earnings of ¥175,869,764. Ranked next were Jiyai Shin with ¥147,098,013 and Ritsuko Ryu with ¥134,114,013.

Schedule

The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA of Japan Tour, including that event. All tournaments were played in Japan.

Dates	Tournament	Location	Prize fund (¥)	Winner
Mar 3–6	Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament	Okinawa	120,000,000	Teresa Lu (10)
Mar 11–13	Yokohama Tire Golf Tournament PRGR Ladies Cup	Kōchi	80,000,000	Lee Bo-mee (16)
Mar 18–20	T-Point Ladies Golf Tournament	Kagoshima	70,000,000	Kaori Ohe (2)
Mar 25–27	AXA Ladies Golf Tournament in Miyazaki	Miyazaki	80,000,000	Kim Ha-neul (2)
Mar 31 – Apr 3	Yamaha Ladies Open Katsuragi	Shizuoka	100,000,000	Lee Ji-hee (20)
Apr 8–10	Studio Alice Women's Open	Hyogo	60,000,000	Erika Kikuchi (2)
Apr 15–17	KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open	Kumamoto	100,000,000	Cancelled due to earthquake[1]
Apr 22–24	Fujisankei Ladies Classic	Shizuoka	80,000,000	Shiho Oyama (17)
Apr 29 – May 1	Cyber Agent Ladies Golf Tournament	Shizuoka	70,000,000	Hiroko Fukushima (1)
May 5–8	World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup	Ibaraki	120,000,000	Lexi Thompson (1)
May 13–15	Hoken No Madoguchi Ladies	Fukuoka	120,000,000	Jiyai Shin (13)
May 20–22	Chukyo TV Bridgestone Ladies Open	Aichi	70,000,000	Ai Suzuki (2)
May 27–29	Resort Trust Ladies	Tokushima	80,000,000	Junko Omote (5)
Jun 3–5	Yonex Ladies Golf Tournament	Niigata	70,000,000	Porani Chutichai (1)
Jun 9–12	Suntory Ladies Open Golf Tournament	Hyogo	100,000,000	Kang Soo-yun (2)
Jun 17–19	Nichirei Ladies	Chiba	80,000,000	Jiyai Shin (14)
Jun 23–26	Earth Mondahmin Cup	Chiba	140,000,000	Lee Bo-mee (17)
Jul 8–10	Nipponham Ladies Classic	Hokkaido	100,000,000	Rumi Yoshiba (1)
Jul 15–17	Samantha Thavasa Girls Collection Ladies Tournament	Ibaraki	60,000,000	Jeon Mi-jeong (23)
Jul 22–24	Century 21 Ladies Golf Tournament	Shizuoka	80,000,000	Ahn Sun-ju (21)
Jul 29–31	Daito Kentaku Eheyanet Ladies	Yamanashi	80,000,000	Shoko Sasaki (1)
Aug 5–7	Meiji Cup	Hokkaido	90,000,000	Lee Bo-mee (18)
Aug 12–14	NEC Karuizawa 72 Golf Tournament	Nagano	80,000,000	Ritsuko Ryu (4)
Aug 19–21	CAT Ladies	Kanagawa	60,000,000	Lee Bo-mee (19)
Aug 25–28	Nitori Ladies Golf Tournament	Hokkaido	100,000,000	Ritsuko Ryu (5)
Sep 2–4	Golf 5 Ladies Professional Golf Tournament	Hokkaido	60,000,000	Lala Anai (1)
Sep 8–11	Japan LPGA Championship Konica Minolta Cup	Hokkaido	140,000,000	Ai Suzuki (3)
Sep 16–18	Munsingwear Ladies Tokai Classic	Aichi	80,000,000	Teresa Lu (11)
Sep 23–25	Miyagi TV Cup Dunlop Women's Open Golf Tournament	Miyagi	70,000,000	Lee Ji-hee (21)
Sep 29 – Oct 2	Japan Women's Open Golf Championship	Tochigi	140,000,000	Nasa Hataoka (a,1)
Oct 7–9	Stanley Ladies Golf Tournament	Shizuoka	90,000,000	Ahn Sun-ju (22)
Oct 14–16	Fujitsu Ladies	Chiba	80,000,000	Ayaka Matsumori (1)
Oct 20–23	Nobuta Group Masters GC Ladies	Hyogo	140,000,000	Jeon Mi-jeong (24)
Oct 28–30	Hisako Higuchi Mitsubishi Electric Ladies Golf Tournament	Saitama	80,000,000	Jiyai Shin (15)
Nov 4–6	Toto Japan Classic	Ibaraki	US$1,500,000	Shanshan Feng (6)
Nov 11–13	Ito En Ladies Golf Tournament	Chiba	100,000,000	Lee Bo-mee (20)
Nov 17–20	Daio Paper Elleair Ladies Open	Ehime	100,000,000	Teresa Lu (12)
Nov 24–27	Japan LPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup	Miyazaki	100,000,000	Kim Ha-neul (3)

Events in bold are majors.
(a) denotes amateur

The Toto Japan Classic was co-sanctioned with the LPGA Tour.

gollark: Slower, even.

gollark: Oops, it turns out I'm accidentally sorting by it instead of the rank, but it's equally slow after fixing that.

gollark: ```nonlocality=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT url, ts_rank(fts, query), ts_headline(fts::text, query, 'MaxWords=60') AS rank FROM pages, websearch_to_tsquery('bee') query WHERE fts @@ query ORDER BY rank LIMIT 1; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Limit (cost=860.92..860.92 rows=1 width=96) (actual time=8506.425..8506.427 rows=1 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=860.92..861.05 rows=52 width=96) (actual time=8506.423..8506.425 rows=1 loops=1) Sort Key: (ts_headline((pages.fts)::text, query.query, 'MaxWords=60'::text)) Sort Method: top-N heapsort Memory: 25kB -> Nested Loop (cost=688.65..860.66 rows=52 width=96) (actual time=1.362..8505.403 rows=348 loops=1) -> Function Scan on websearch_to_tsquery query (cost=0.25..0.26 rows=1 width=32) (actual time=0.023..0.025 rows=1 loops=1) -> Bitmap Heap Scan on pages (cost=688.40..846.49 rows=52 width=142) (actual time=0.353..1.502 rows=348 loops=1) Recheck Cond: (fts @@ query.query) Heap Blocks: exact=231 -> Bitmap Index Scan on page_search_index (cost=0.00..688.39 rows=52 width=0) (actual time=0.320..0.320 rows=387 loops=1) Index Cond: (fts @@ query.query) Planning Time: 0.190 ms Execution Time: 8506.463 ms(13 rows)```

gollark: It's not a condition, it's an extra row on the output, and I can see exactly what it does via `EXPLAIN ANALYZE`.

gollark: Maybe I need a better full text search backend?!

References

"Kumamoto tourney nixed". The Japan News. April 15, 2016.

External links

Official website (in Japanese)

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[1] "Kumamoto tourney nixed". The Japan News. April 15, 2016.