LPGA Takefuji Classic

FINAL RESULT: 3-1-0; +2.66pts

Inkster/Rosales WON by 5
Jang/Kim WON by 5
Redman/Davies WON by 10
Kang/Bowie LOST by 9

The dependable LPGA Tour matchups returned another profit, just not enough to cover the losses on the outrights.

Further matchup plays (1.5pts)

Michele Redman to beat Laura Davies -123 @ Five Dimes
A lowly 58th-placed finish in the Nabisco Championship shouldn't detract from the fact that Redman has started this season extremely well. After opening with a 19th-place finish in Hawaii, she then finished 6th and 7th in her next two events, finishing a cumulative 15 shots ahead of Davies in those two events. Throw in course form that reads 9th and 11th in the two years here and the fact that Davies has never played this course and Redman really shouldn't be the underdog.

Soo-Yun Kang to beat Heather Bowie -125 @ Five Dimes
Kang withdrew midway through the 2nd round of the Nabisco Championship three weeks ago, citing a neck and back injury, and that is the only concern with this play. Otherwise it's a mismatch. Kang has a 12-6-0 h2h lead over Bowie over the past year and has finished 11th and 2nd on this course, whereas Bowie has finished 30th and missed the cut. Can't see the selection is the underdog in this match either!

Matchup plays (1.5pts)

Juli Inkster to beat Jennifer Rosales -110 @ BetFred
Rather a one-sided matchup since last May: Rosales has finished ahead of Inkster only three times in fourteen common events and on each occasion she had to finish in the top-5 to do so. Rosales may have the better course form, but Inkster hadn't been playing particularly well when entering this event in 2003 and 2004, but with finishes of 3rd and 7th in her last two starts, it is very different this year.

Jeong Jang to beat Christina Kim -118 @ Centrebet and SuperOdds
Kim has become a very opposable player since she won the Longs Drugs Challenge in September last year. In her ten subsequent events, she has failed to register a single top-10 finish, even in the limited field events at the end of last year, and broken 70 in only 4 of 32 rounds. So while Jang has not been playing as well as she can this year, she has still been more than a match for Kim: since Kim's win, Jang has finished ahead of her in eight of nine common events.