Monday, December 23, 2013

<速報>横峯さくら、2位Tに浮上!首位は宮里美香



2010年11月26日14時45分




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順位 選手名 スコア1 宮里 美香 -3
2 森田 理香子 -1
横峯 さくら -1
4 アン・ソンジュ 0
インビー・パーク 0
6 キム・ナリ +1
佐伯 三貴 +1
不動 裕理 +1
9 有村 智恵 +2
上原 彩子 +2


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LPGAツアーチャンピオンシップリコーカップ 2日目>◇26日◇宮崎カントリークラブ(6,520ヤード・パー72)

 宮崎県にある宮崎カントリークラブで開催中の国内女子ツアー最終戦「LPGAツアーチャンピオンシップリコーカップ」は2日目の競技を終了。イーブンパー9位タイからスタートした横峯さくらはこの日、多くの選手がスコアを崩す中、1つスコアを伸ばしトータル1アンダーでホールアウト。順位を2位タイまで上げた。

 米ツアーを主戦場とし、今季「日本女子オープン」で国内ツアー初優勝を挙げた宮里美香がトータル3アンダーで首位に立った。今季の賞金女王、アン・ソンジュ(韓国)は3打差の4位タイにつけている。


【2日目の順位】
1位:宮里美香(-3)
2位T:森田理香子(-1)
2位T:横峯さくら(-1)
4位T:アン・ソンジュ(E)
4位T:インビー・パーク(E)
6位T:佐伯三貴(+1)
6位T:金ナリ(+1)
6位T:不動裕理(+1)
9位T:有村智恵(+2)他2名

Friday, November 29, 2013

遼、豪州での成長をみせた!アプローチが冴え8位タイ発進




2011年11月24日20時24分




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順位 選手名 スコア1 宮里 優作 -7
2 上井 邦浩 -6
3 高山 忠洋 -5
4 小平智 -4
諸藤 将次 -4
6 P・マークセン -3
小田 孔明 -3
8 吉永 智一 -2
宮瀬 博文 -2
倉本 昌弘 -2


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強風の中粘りのゴルフで8位タイ発進(撮影:岩本芳弘)








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カシオワールドオープン 初日◇24日◇Kochi黒潮カントリークラブ(7,280ヤード・パー72)>

 石川遼が「プレジデンツカップ」で世界の一流プロたちと一緒に戦った経験を早速国内ツアーでみせた。高知県にあるKochi黒潮カントリークラブを舞台に開幕した「カシオワールドオープン」の初日。石川は首位と5打差ながら8位タイと上々のスタートを切った。

【関連リンク】石川遼の1打速報でこの日のプレーを振り返る!

 石川はINコースからスタート。10番でバーディを奪うと、12番では長いバーディパットを沈め快調なスタートを切る。その後はスコアカード通りのプレーが続いたが、迎えた後半の2番パー3。バンカーの土手から放った2打目がそのままカップに吸い込まれチップインバーディ。その後はティショットのミスからボギーを叩くなど、スコアを伸ばせずに終わったが、「5打開いたけど、トップ10には入っていると思うので、久しぶりにいいスタートが切れた」とラウンド後は笑顔をみせた。

 この日冴えたのはアプローチ。本人が会心の1打に挙げたのが17番の3打目だ。約25ヤードの距離を上手く傾斜を使いながら手前からコロがしピンに寄せた。これは先週の「プレジデンツカップ」で一流選手たちの「引き出しの多さにプラスしてイマジネーションが豊富」な部分を盗んだ結果。球の高さ、グリーンの硬さ、どれぐらい球がコロがるかなどを瞬時にイメージして放ったアプローチに、「2週間前なら打てなかった」と胸を張った。

 その他にもピンチをショートゲームでしのぎ、大事な大会で上位スタート。この日は刺すような冷たい風が吹き付ける中でのラウンドだったがプレー中、インターバル、ラウンド後の練習でも半袖。「先週の熱がさめやらぬ状態です(笑)」このまま豪州で得た“熱”で残り3日間スコアを伸ばせるか。

【初日の結果】
1位:宮里優作(-7)
2位:上井邦浩(-6)
3位:高山忠洋(-5)
4位T:小平智(-4)
4位T:諸藤将次(-4)
6位T:プラヤド・マークセン(-3)
6位T:小田孔明(-3)
8位T:石川遼(-2)
8位T:薗田峻輔(-2)他3名

105位:松山英樹(+9)

<速報>宮里優作が単独首位!遼は5打差8位タイ発進




2011年11月24日16時52分




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順位 選手名 スコア1 宮里 優作 -7
2 上井 邦浩 -6
3 高山 忠洋 -5
4 小平智 -4
諸藤 将次 -4
6 P・マークセン -3
小田 孔明 -3
8 吉永 智一 -2
宮瀬 博文 -2
倉本 昌弘 -2


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カシオワールドオープン 初日◇24日◇Kochi黒潮カントリークラブ(7,280ヤード・パー72)>

 高知県にあるKochi黒潮カントリークラブを舞台に開幕した、国内男子ツアー「カシオワールドオープン」の初日。8バーディ・1ボギーの7アンダーでまわった宮里優作が単独首位に立った。

 1打差の2位は上井邦浩、3位は高山忠洋、4位タイには小平智と諸藤将次がつけた。2試合ぶりに国内の試合に出場した石川遼は、4バーディ・2ボギーの2アンダー8位タイとまずまずのスタートを切っている。

【初日の結果】
1位:宮里優作(-7)
2位:上井邦浩(-6)
3位:高山忠洋(-5)
4位T:小平智(-4)
4位T:諸藤将次(-4)
6位T:プラヤド・マークセン(-3)
6位T:小田孔明(-3)
8位T:石川遼(-2)
8位T:薗田峻輔(-2)他3名

「その気になって良いゴルフを」宮里優作、単独首位スタート




2011年11月24日20時42分




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順位 選手名 スコア1 宮里 優作 -7
2 上井 邦浩 -6
3 高山 忠洋 -5
4 小平智 -4
諸藤 将次 -4
6 P・マークセン -3
小田 孔明 -3
8 吉永 智一 -2
宮瀬 博文 -2
倉本 昌弘 -2


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10番バーディを奪った宮里優作、この時点でトップを独走(撮影:岩本芳弘)









カシオワールドオープン 初日◇24日◇Kochi黒潮カントリークラブ(7,280ヤード・パー72)>

 「大好きなコース。最終戦だし雰囲気も良いし、皆温かいので気持ちよくプレーできる」。待望の初優勝へ宮里優作が時折強風が吹きつける難しいコンディションの中、65ストロークでラウンド。7アンダーまでスコアを伸ばし単独首位に立った。1打差の2位にはこちらも初優勝を狙う上井邦浩、2打差3位には高山忠洋が入った。

【関連リンク】遼、豪州での成長をみせた!アプローチが冴え8位タイ発進

 宮里は2番パー3でティショットを7メートルにつけると、バーディパットをねじ込み快進撃をスタートさせる。4番で5メートルを決めるとそこから圧巻の4連続バーディを奪取。9番でもスコアを伸ばし、ハーフを自己ベストタイの30ストローク、6アンダーで折り返す。後半は10番でバーディを奪うが、その後はスコアを伸ばせず7アンダーでホールアウト。「風が強かったので低い球を打つようにしました。後半は伸び悩みましたが、全体的にいいゴルフでした」と会心のラウンドを総括した。

 この大会では2年前も首位発進。その時は15位タイに終わったが悪い印象はない。「良いスタートを切れたのでその気になって良いゴルフをしたい」、優勝を待ち望まれ続けた宮里。今回こそはチャンスをものにして、勝利をその手に掴み取ることができるか。

【初日の結果】
1位:宮里優作(-7)
2位:上井邦浩(-6)
3位:高山忠洋(-5)
4位T:小平智(-4)
4位T:諸藤将次(-4)
6位T:プラヤド・マークセン(-3)
6位T:小田孔明(-3)
8位T:石川遼(-2)
8位T:薗田峻輔(-2)他3名

105位:松山英樹(+9)

<中間速報>遼、前半で1つスコア落とす、松山も苦しい展開



2011年11月25日11時01分




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順位 選手名 スコア1 高山 忠洋 -9
2 宮里 優作 -7
3 上井 邦浩 -6
4 小平智 -5
5 田中 秀道 -4
諸藤 将次 -4
7 上田 諭尉 -3
P・マークセン -3
小田 孔明 -3
宮瀬 博文 -3


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カシオワールドオープン 2日目◇25日◇Kochi黒潮カントリークラブ(7,280ヤード・パー72)>

 国内男子ツアー「カシオワールドオープン」の2日目。首位と5打差の8位タイでスタートした石川遼は1番でバーディを奪う幸先の良い立ち上がりをみせる。しかし、その後は足踏みが続くと、8番パー3でティショットが目玉になりダブルボギー。1つスコアを落としトータル1アンダーで前半を終えた。

 初日首位の宮里優作がトータル8アンダーで首位をキープ、トータル7アンダーの2位タイに高山忠洋上井邦浩がつけた。初日最下位と出遅れたアマチュアの松山英樹は前半で2つスコアを落とし、トータル11オーバーと苦しい展開が続いている。

Monday, October 28, 2013

Timberwolves' home set for $97M makeover



Timberwolves' home set for $97M makeover


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The sixth-oldest arena in use by the NBA is about to get a facelift.
In a joint announcement Monday, the city of Minneapolis, theMinnesota Timberwolves and building manager Anschutz Entertainment Group revealed a $97 million renovation plan for the Target Center.
The building, which houses the reigning WNBA championMinnesota Lynx as well as the Timberwolves, opened in 1990.
The restoration will be paid for my $48.5 million from the city, $43 million from the Timberwolves and $5.5 million from AEG. Minneapolis' portion still must be approved by the city council.
The NBA team's lease will now run through 2032.
"The Timberwolves and Lynx have been great partners with the city," Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said. "They are drivers in making Minneapolis one of the premiere entertainment destinations in the world. Target Center has been a huge economic development engine for Minneapolis. The renovation will not only refuel it to keep it roaring, but will also add some horse power."
Timberwolves and Lynx owner Glen Taylor said, "We have some of the greatest fans in the world. It is time the quality of the building matched the quality of our fans."

Clippers' summer of success



Clippers' summer of success nearly thrown into chaos by owner


In the early afternoon hours of July 3, owner Donald Sterling called Los Angeles Clippers president Andy Roeser and informed him he had rescinded approval on moving Eric Bledsoe and acquiring free agent J.J. Redick in a sign-and-trade agreement. The three-team deal – delivered the owner's blessing only two days earlier – no longer interested Sterling.
Call it off, Sterling instructed Roeser, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
Deal's dead.
It didn't matter the news had broken 24 hours earlier of the Clippers sending Bledsoe and Caron Butler to thePhoenix Suns with the Suns' Jared Dudley and Milwaukee's Redick, on a four-year, $27 million contract, joining Los Angeles. It didn't matter the public had been praising Doc Rivers' first deal as the new senior vice president of basketball operations and coach, that Rivers and general manager Gary Sacks had given their word to teams, agents and players that this was a finalized agreement.


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The Clippers sent a draft pick to the Celtics to hire Doc Rivers as coach. (Getty Images)
Soon, Roeser hurriedly delivered Sterling's declaration to Rivers, his ultimate "welcome-to-the-Clippers" moment.
This had been the kind of dysfunction that frightened prospective executives and coaches of Sterling, an eccentric, often illogical man long used to undermining and bullying staff that he had often kept on short, low-money contracts.
From there, over the Fourth of July holiday, a most unholy hell threatened to unleash should Sterling have been unrelenting in his reversal, sources described to Yahoo Sports. That bizarre turn of events had stayed within a tight circle of league executives, coaches and agents at the start of free agency in July.
After Sterling vaporized the deal on July 3, leaving chaos in his wake, the owner bolted for a beachfront holiday weekend in parts unknown. From the Suns' and Bucks' front offices to Redick's agent, Arn Tellem, to the credibility of the Clippers franchise itself, those involved understood that perhaps only Rivers had the freshly minted cachet and power of persuasion to undo this looming disaster with Sterling.
With a different clout, a different leverage, Rivers had come to the Clippers with uncommon stature. He cost Sterling a three-year, $21 million contract and a first-round compensatory draft pick that went to the Boston Celtics. Free agent Chris Paul guaranteed to ownership that the hiring of Rivers would result with his signing of a five-year extension to stay with the Clippers.
After GM Neil Olshey reshaped the franchise into a credible and contending entity before he left for the Portland Trail Blazers, Rivers had marched into Los Angeles as the front-office czar and championship coach to bring the Clippers the final distance to a title.
The NBA's moratorium on free-agent signings had a week left until its end, meaning that no deal could be signed until July 11. Rivers had time to change Sterling's mind, but Redick and his representatives couldn't wait long. No one stood to lose more than Redick, one of the best players available on the market, a shooter perfect for the way that Rivers wanted to spread the floor.
Once a deal had been agreed upon and passed Sterling's initial approval, Redick had turned down comparable offers, including one from Minnesota, to join the Clippers. With Redick off the market, the Timberwolves reached agreement on a four-year, $27 million deal with Oklahoma City Thunder free agent Kevin Martin.


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The Clippers are looking for their first NBA title under owner Donald Sterling. (USA Today)
What weighed hardest on Rivers, league sources in touch with the Clippers said, was how hard he had recruited Redick, how intensely he had sold him on a different day with this franchise. And now, on Rivers' first major deal since coming from the Celtics, everything had blown up on him.
Along with his agents, Tellem and Greg Lawrence, Redick had gone to a recruiting dinner with Rivers and Sacks in Los Angeles on July 1, the first night of free agency. As expected, there was a complete connection with the coach.
In Redick's mind, he had the best of everything in the Clippers deal: nearly $7 million a year, a championship contender, a coach whom he believed could get the best out of him the way Stan Van Gundy had in Orlando.
Once Rivers had worked out an agreement with Suns general manager Ryan McDonough and Milwaukee's John Hammond, who would be sent two second-round draft picks for facilitating the sign-and-trade, the deal was done on July 2.
For Rivers' system and culture, Redick and Dudley were ideal fits. They were twentysomething players replacing an aging, expensive Butler in the final year of his contract.
For the first few hours, these arguments were slow to register with Sterling, sources told Yahoo Sports. Looking back, only the owner knows why he attempted to blow the deal up. Yes, Sterling had been fond of Bledsoe. He was young, explosive, impactful on the Clippers' second unit. Some believed too, that Sterling stereotyped Redick and didn't want to pay $27 million for a bench player.
With Sterling, rational thought and debate aren't always part of the discussion. Whatever his reasons, everyone else awaited Rivers' conversations with Sterling. Rivers contract gave him ultimate management authority on deals, and several sources dealing with the Clippers say that Rivers was beyond embarrassed and humiliated. He feared the unraveling of the deal would cost him his credibility and paralyze him in future trade and negotiation talks, sources said.
Redick's representatives, led by the influential Tellem, were beyond livid. Accepting the Clippers' word, agreeing to terms, there was no reason they wouldn't expect this was a binding agreement. For Redick, there was nowhere left for him to get a comparable deal – never mind a contender, a city, where he wanted to play. For better or worse, he had to wait on Rivers and Sterling. There was no Plan B with which to rush and accept.
From the outside, there were those telling Rivers to unite with his superstar, Paul, and let Sterling understand they both could still walk out on him. Paul couldn't sign his five-year, $107 million contract until July 11, but sources insist that Rivers never brought Paul into the quagmire.
Rivers' job was to convince the owner – for a second time, in this instance – and there were those who believed a flat refusal on Sterling's behalf could've resulted with Rivers' resignation.
"It never got to that," one source told Yahoo Sports, "but it might have had Sterling not come around."
Only Rivers will ever know, because Sterling did change his mind and the deal was resuscitated within 72 hours of it falling apart. Downright disaster had been averted, and on the night of July 11, Clippers officials, Redick and his representatives came together to sign the contract papers in the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel.
Someone offered to make a toast, and finally it was over: No one could stop the deal. Once again, the organization had survived Donald Sterling. Against the odds, against history, against the franchise's lingering self-destructive bent, the Los Angeles Clippers could chase a championship.