Japan Women's Open 2nd-Round Results

Mika Miyazato's 5-hole birdie train late in the 2nd round of the Japan Women's Open gives her a 5-shot lead on Chie Arimura heading into the weekend.  At -9, she's matched her performance over the 1st 36 holes in last season's JWO, where she got to -12 in the final round before collapsing. 

Here are the standings, scores, and Rolex Rankings of Mikan's closest pursuers and other notables, with current LPGAers in bold and ex-LPGAers in italics:

1st/-9 Mika Miyazato (68-67) [#39]
2nd/-4 Chie Arimura (70-70) [#19]
T3/-3 Na Yeon Choi (72-69) [#6], Ayako Uehara (68-73) [#62]
T5/-2 Hee Young Park (76-66) [#38], Ai Miyazato (72-70) [#1], Miki Saiki (71-71) [#77]


T11/E Momoko Ueda (74-70) [#35], Eun-Hee Ji (74-70) [#53], Nikki Campbell (72-72) [#41], Sakura Yokomine (73-71) [#16], Yuri Fudoh (70-74) [#23], Ji-Hee Lee (69-75) [#29]

T17/+1 Hyun-Ju Shin (77-68) [#69], Sun-Ju Ahn (73-72) [#17]

T19/+2 Asako Fujimoto (75-71) [#67]

T22/+3 Shinobu Moromizato (73-74) [#27], Ya Ni Tseng (71-76)  [#4]

T26/+4 Yukari Baba (73-75) [#37]

T29/+5 Saiki Fujita (75-74) [#64], Young Kim (75-74) [#55], Eun-A Lim (75-74) [#54], Song-Hee Kim (72-77) [#9]

T44/+7 Mayu Hattori (77-74) [#57], Akane Iijima (74-77) [#51], Na-Ri Kim (74-77) [#45], Mie Nakata (73-78) [#88]

T60/+9 Rui Kitada (79-74) [#56]


I'm seeing a Sunday showdown between the non-related Okinawan Miyazatos in my crystal ball. Mikan had better have a great moving day, given her Sunday struggles and Ai-sama's Sunday heroics this season!