Taipei Times
Date: Oct 07, 2016
By: AP, TAIPEI

Sakura Yokomine bogeyed the final hole for a five-under 67 and a one-stroke lead over Brooke

Henderson, Paula Creamer and Amy Yang in the LPGA Taiwan Championship yesterday.

Yokomine eagled the par-five 12th and had three back-nine birdies at windy Miramar before dropping the stroke on the par-five 18th in the second of six events on the tour’s Asian Swing. The 30-year-old Japanese player is winless in two seasons on the LPGA Tour after winning 23 times on the Japan LPGA Tour.

Henderson birdied three of the final four holes, playing in the last group of the day. The 19-year-old Canadian has two victories this year, winning the major KPMG Women’s PGA in June.

Creamer had a bogey-free round. Yang was six-under through 13 holes, then bogeyed the next two.

Jang Ha-na, Ai Miyazato, Lee-Anne Pace, Beatriz Recari and Park Hee-young shot 69s.

Defending champion Lydia Ko had a double bogey on the par-four fifth in a 70. The top-ranked New Zealander won by nine strokes at Miramar last year. She has four LPGA Tour victories this season.

Leading among Taiwanese were Tsai Pei-ying and amateur Chang Ya-chun, who shot one-under 71s for a share of 14th.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: October 8, 2016
By: CNA

TAIPEI–Taiwan’s Candie Kung (龔怡萍) fought a pinched nerve and rainy and windy weather to shoot a

2-under-par 70 Friday in the second round of the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship in Linkou and finish the day in the best position of any of the 20 Taiwanese in the event.

Kung was tied for 10th at 2-under 142 with seven other golfers, four shots behind second round leaders Jang Ha Na and Park Hee Young of South Korea.

The only other Taiwanese golfer to be under par after two rounds was Tsai Pei-ying (蔡佩穎), who was tied for 18th at 1-under after a late-round collapse.

Tsai was near the top of the leaderboard at 5-under for the tournament after sinking a birdie on the par-four 13th, only to give away four shots with bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes and a double-bogey on the tricky par-5 18th.

The steady rain that fell throughout the day made conditions tough for all of the players on Friday, and only 25 players in the 80-player field finished the day with two-round totals of par or better in the US$2 million tournament at the Miramar Golf Country Club in Linkou.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/10/06
By: Lee Chin-wei and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Oct. 6 (CNA) Taiwanese players did not do well on the opening day of the Fubon LPGA Taiwan

Championship Thursday, with professional Tsai Pei-ying (蔡佩穎) and amateur Chang Ya-chun (張雅淳) firing a one-under 71 to tie with eight others to rank 14th, while once-world No. 1 Yani Tseng (曾雅妮) was placed 73rd with 79.

Japan’s Sakura Yokomine led the pack of 81 with a five-under 67 after carding five birdies, one eagle and two bogies. She was followed by Paula Creamer of the United States, Amy Yang of South Korea and Brooke Henderson of Canada, who tied at 2nd place with a score of 68.

None of the Taiwanese players, including two amateurs, were able to card 69 to tie at fifth. Five foreign golfers did that: Park Hee-young and Jang Ha-na of South Korea, Beatriz Recari of Spain, Ai Miyazato of Japan and South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: October 5, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The 1,000 kilometer, non-stop “Home Run Taiwan” relay event, organized by CTBC

Financial Holding Co., reached the eastern county of Taitung, Tuesday.

Members of the CTBC Charity Foundation ran a stretch from Hualien County’s Guangfu Township to Taitung’s Feng-tian Elementary School.

Upon their arrival they were cheered on by members of the school’s baseball team.

Foundation chairman Jeffrey Koo Jr. who played baseball with the students the day before, said that “Home Run Taiwan” differed from other running events because it invited people to “run for the sake of love.”

He was joined in Taitung by the Foundation’s CEO Roger Kao, CTBC Bank’s Mainland Business Office chief Tony Yang and four other members of the bank’s Hong Kong branch.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 30, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, WUHAN, China

Taiwan’s Chan sisters survived a roller-coaster day at the WTA Tour’s Wuhan Open yesterday to

advance to the semi-finals of the doubles, while Lu Yen-hsun failed with his comeback bid and exited the ATP Tour’s Chengdu Open in the second round.

Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan were a set down and facing a break point when their second-round match against Slovenian duo Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik was suspended due to rain on Wednesday, but they fought back yesterday to complete a 3-6, 7-5, 10-8 victory in 1 hour, 31 minutes.

The sisters saved five of 10 break points and converted four of six to set up a quarter-final against familiar adversaries Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears later in the day.

The second seeds carried on their good form to win the first set against the American duo, before it all fell apart as the sisters suffered muscle cramps and called the doctor, before losing the second to love.     [FULL  STORY]