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SHIMA, Japan – Ji-Yai Shin won the Mizuno Classic for her second LPGA title and ninth international victory of the year, shooting a 5-under 67 on Sunday to easily hold off Mayu Hattori at Kinetsu Kashikojima.

The Women’s British Open winner and the first player to sweep the Korea LPGA’s three majors in a season, Shin finished at 15-under 201 for her second victory of the year in Japan. The 20-year-old South Korean star earned $210,000.

“Yesterday and today I was really good with my iron shots,” Shin said. “Almost the best this year. It feels like I can make everything.”

Hattori, the Japanese player coming off a victory last week in the Japan LPGA’s IDC Otsuka Ladies, closed with a 67 to finish second, six strokes back in the event sanctioned by the LPGA and JLPGA. Eun-a Lim (70) was third at 8 under, and  Il-Mi Chung (69), Yun-Jye Wei (70) and Jee Young Lee (72) followed at 7 under.

Shin played the front nine in 4 under – making birdies on Nos. 2 and 3 and holing an eagle chip on the par-5 seventh – to move four strokes ahead of Hattori and Lee. Lee birdied the 10th to cut Shin’s lead to three, but had a double bogey on the par-3 11th.

“I was very nervous on the first tee,” Shin said. “But I made birdies on the second and third holes and got more comfortable and confident.”

Shin birdied the par-5 13th and had a six-stroke lead with four to play. She three-putted for a bogey on the par-4 15th, only her second bogey on the week and first in 47 holes, then birdied the par-5 16th and closed with two pars.

Hattori had a double bogey on the par-4 12th.

“It was a tough day,” Hattori said. “But this was a good experience for me. There were a lot of good players here and it’s good to play against them.”

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Final scores with earnings and relation to par from the Mizuno Classic, played Nov. 7-9 at the par-72, 6,506-yard Kinetsu Kashikojima Country Club in Shima, Japan:

1. Ji-Yai Shin	$210,000	68-66-67--201		-15
2. Mayu Hattori	126,968	67-69-71--207		-9
3. Eun-A Lim	92,107	68-70-70--208		-8
4. Il Mi Chung	58,508	71-69-69--209		-7
4. Yun-Jye Wei	58,508	71-68-70--209		-7
4. Jee Young Lee	58,508	69-68-72--209		-7
7. Bo Bae Song	33,193	70-71-69--210		-6
7. Yuri Fudoh	33,193	71-70-69--210		-6
7. Miki Saiki	33,193	67-73-70--210		-6
7. Allison Fouch	33,193	73-67-70--210		-6
11. Candie Kung	22,954	73-70-68--211		-5
11. Jin Joo Hong	22,954	69-73-69--211		-5
11. Ji Young Oh	22,954	69-72-70--211		-5
11. Yuko Mitsuka	22,954	69-71-71--211		-5
11. Erina Hara	22,954	71-67-73--211		-5
16. Sakura Yokomine	17,726	71-71-70--212		-4
16. Sandra Gal	17,726	69-77-66--212		-4
16. Alena Sharp	17,726	71-69-72--212		-4
16. Shanshan Feng	17,726	69-71-72--212		-4
20. Young Kim	15,432	71-72-70--213		-3
20. Carin Koch	15,432	72-71-70--213		-3
20. Jimin Kang	15,432	69-70-74--213		-3
23. In-Kyung Kim	12,565	72-72-70--214		-2
23. Hiromi Mogi	12,565	71-72-71--214		-2
23. Teresa Lu	12,565	70-74-70--214		-2
23. Jill McGill	12,565	71-71-72--214		-2
23. Heather Young	12,565	72-74-68--214		-2
23. Esther Lee	12,565	72-69-73--214		-2
23. Shiho Oyama	12,565	69-68-77--214		-2
23. Shinobu Moromizato	12,565	73-76-65--214		-2
31. Giulia Sergas	9,871	73-72-70--215		-1
31. Ji-Hee Lee	9,871	74-69-72--215		-1
31. Mi Hyun Kim	9,871	70-71-74--215		-1
31. Lindsey Wright	9,871	69-71-75--215		-1
35. Na Yeon Choi	7,585	70-73-73--216		E
35. Kyeong Bae	7,585	72-71-73--216		E
35. Christina Kim	7,585	72-71-73--216		E
35. Momoko Ueda	7,585	70-74-72--216		E
35. Rui Kitada	7,585	75-70-71--216		E
35. Meena Lee	7,585	72-70-74--216		E
35. Wendy Ward	7,585	71-74-71--216		E
35. Akiko Fukushima	7,585	74-72-70--216		E
35. Saiki Fujita	7,585	71-70-75--216		E
44. Mie Nakata	5,492	73-71-73--217	+	1
44. Ayako Uehara	5,492	71-72-74--217	+	1
44. Minea Blomqvist	5,492	73-70-74--217	+	1
44. Nikki Campbell	5,492	72-73-72--217	+	1
44. Janice Moodie	5,492	71-74-72--217	+	1
44. Karine Icher	5,492	74-74-69--217	+	1
44. Midori Yoneyama	5,492	73-75-69--217	+	1
51. Irene Cho	4,241	71-73-74--218	+	2
51. Ai Miyazato	4,241	71-73-74--218	+	2
51. Hee Young Park	4,241	71-73-74--218	+	2
51. Miho Koga	4,241	73-70-75--218	+	2
51. Hiroko Yamaguchi	4,241	74-71-73--218	+	2
51. Kristy McPherson	4,241	72-73-73--218	+	2
51. Ji-Woo Lee	4,241	72-74-72--218	+	2
51. Maiko Wakabayashi	4,241	71-76-71--218	+	2
59. So-Hee Kim	3,459	72-72-75--219	+	3
59. Diana D'Alessio	3,459	73-73-73--219	+	3
59. H.J. Choi	3,459	72-74-73--219	+	3
59. Catriona Matthew	3,459	72-75-72--219	+	3
63. Mi-Jeong Jeon	3,094	73-71-76--220	+	4
63. Louise Friberg	3,094	71-71-78--220	+	4
63. Akane Iijima	3,094	73-73-74--220	+	4
63. Karrie Webb	3,094	72-75-73--220	+	4
63. Yani Tseng	3,094	73-76-71--220	+	4
63. Inbee Park	3,094	74-76-70--220	+	4
69. Morgan Pressel	2,772	75-70-76--221	+	5
69. Chie Arimura	2,772	74-71-76--221	+	5
69. Becky Morgan	2,772	71-75-75--221	+	5
69. Namika Omata	2,772	73-74-74--221	+	5
73. Yasuko Satoh	2,659	74-74-74--222	+	6
73. Yuko Saitoh	2,659	70-79-73--222	+	6
75. Yukari Baba	2,591	71-74-78--223	+	7
75. Kim Hall	2,591	75-74-74--223	+	7
77. Rachel Hetherington	2,525	75-75-75--225	+	9
77. Kaori Higo	2,525	71-79-75--225	+	9

Posted: 11/9/2008

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