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Riko Higashio
is a Japanese professional golfer and former member of the LPGA Tour. Amateur career Higashio was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As a teenager, she won the 1993 Japan Amateur Championship and the 1994 Japan Junior Championship. Higashio first attended Nihon University in Tokyo. She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where she played for the Florida Gators women's golf team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1996 to 1998. Higashio won four tournaments as a college golfer. She was recognized as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year in 1996, and was a first-team All-SEC selection in 1996, 1997 and 1998, an honorable mention All-American in 1996, and a first-team All-American in 1998. She was also honored as a member of the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team and graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterCard Classic
The MasterCard Classic Honoring Alejo Peralta was a golf tournament for professional female golfers, played on the LPGA Tour. It was played each year between 2005 and 2009 at Bosque Real Country Club in Mexico City, Mexico. Winners * Championship won in sudden-death playoff. Tournament records References External linksLPGA official tournament microsite Former LPGA Tour events Golf tournaments in Mexico Sports competitions in Mexico City Recurring sporting events established in 2005 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2009 2005 establishments in Mexico 2009 disestablishments in Mexico Women's sport in Mexico Mastercard {{Mexico-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Gators Women's Golfers
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Japanese Female Golfers
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List Of University Of Florida Alumni
This list of University of Florida alumni includes current students, former students, and graduates of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Honorary degree recipients can be found on the List of University of Florida honorary degree recipients, and notable administration, faculty, and staff are found on the List of University of Florida faculty and administrators. Engineering, science, and mathematics * Mark Adler, researcher, known for his work in data compression, and creator of zlib and gzip * James Allchin, developed Microsoft operating systems, former executive * Miguel Altieri, agroecology, agroecologist at the University of California, Berkeley * John D. Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum * John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, first automatic electronic digital computer * C. D. Atkins, co-creator of frozen orange juice concentrate * Marc Baldus, physicist and expert in Solid-stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Florida Gators Women's Golfers On The LPGA Tour
This List of Florida Gators women's golfers on the LPGA Tour includes notable athletes who played for the Florida Gators women's golf team that represents the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and who currently play or have played golf professionally. These alumnae of the University of Florida played on the LPGA Tour or competed in other major LPGA-affiliated tours and tournaments. See also * Florida Gators * List of Florida Gators men's golfers on the PGA Tour * List of University of Florida alumni * List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... {{Florida Gators athletic program navbox Golfers, women's Lists of female golfers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Lexus Cup
The 2005 Lexus Cup was the inaugural edition of the annual golf match competed by women representing Asia and an international squad. Each team was made up of twelve members. The competition took place at the Tanah Merah Country Club in Singapore from 9–11 December 2005. Lexus was he title sponsor while Rolex, DBS, Singapore Airlines, and Singapore Sports Council are main sponsors. The total purse was US$960,000, with $50,000 going to each member of the winning team and $30,000 to members of the other team. The International team won solidly in the first annual event, 16 points to 8. Teams As in the similar team events of the Ryder Cup (USA vs. Europe men), Presidents Cup (USA vs. "International" men, i.e. rest of the world excluding Europe), and Solheim Cup (USA vs. Europe women), each team consisted of twelve players. Each captain appointed their remaining team members. Asia * Grace Park (captain) - Seoul, South Korea * Meena Lee - Jeonju, South Korea * Hee-Won Han - Seoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lexus Cup
The Lexus Cup was an annual golf tournament played between 2005 and 2008 for professional women golfers contested by a team representing Asia and an international team representing the rest of the world. It was sanctioned by the LPGA Tour,Lexus Cup 2008 but any winnings were unofficial and were not included in the LPGA money list standings. The title sponsor was , a luxury automobile maker. It was one many new team golf tournaments founded on the model of the Ryder Cup since that tournament became a star attraction in golf in the 1980s. In women's golf it complemented the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Espirito Santo Trophy
The 1994 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 28 September – 1 October at Le Golf National in Guyancourt south-west of Paris, France. It was the 16th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy and 30-year anniversary of the inaugural event in 1964, which also was held in France, close to Paris. At the time of the 1994 championship, its initiator in 1964, Lally Segard, retired from her position, after serving for 30 years, as chairperson of the women's committee of the organizing World Amateur Golf Council, when the championship returned to her home town. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 29 team entries, each with three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. The United States team won the Trophy for their 12th title, beating South Korea by four strokes. South Korea earned the silver medal while the Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espirito Santo Trophy
The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the French Golf Federation in an agreement with the United States Golf Association. It was planned by Lally Segard, at the time known as Vicomtesse de Saint Sauveur, from France and Mrs. Henri Prunaret from America. Segard also asked her friends Ricardo and Silvia Espirito Santo, from Portugal, to donate a trophy for the event, which they did. They had originally bought the golden cup, which had belonged to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, for an international Portuguese event that was not played anymore. The championship was held under the chairmanship of Segard at Golf de Saint Germain outside Paris, France. The week after, the World Amateur Golf Council agreed to manage and sponsor the tournament, beginning in 1966, to be played every second year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junichi Ishida
is a Japanese actor and television personality from Tokyo. He is married to professional golfer Riko Higashio. Biography Junichi Ishida was born in Tokyo. His father was a foreign correspondent for NHK, and he lived in the U.S. from the ages of three to six. He attended Waseda University, but dropped out before graduating. Ishida has been married three times. He first married while he was a student, fathering a son, Issei Ishida, who became an actor and musician. His second marriage, to , lasted for 11 years before they divorced in 1999. They had one daughter, Sumire, who became an actress. He was subsequently in a relationship with TV personality , but their 8-year relationship ended in 2004. In October 2009, Ishida announced his engagement to professional golfer Riko Higashio. They registered their marriage on 12 December 2009. Their first son, , was born on 5 November 2012. Ishida is famous for not wearing socks in public. He claims that this started after he saw Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seibu Lions
The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Holdings. The team experienced a recent period of financial difficulty, but the situation brightened when the team received a record ¥6 billion (about $51.11 million) posting fee from the Boston Red Sox for the right to negotiate a contract with Daisuke Matsuzaka. Between 1978 and 2008, the team logo and mascot were based on the adult version of Kimba the White Lion, a classic Japanese anime and manga series by Osamu Tezuka. In 2004, former Seibu Lions player Kazuo Matsui became the first Japanese infielder to play in Major League Baseball. Franchise history Nishitetsu Clippers (1950) In 1950, the team became a founding member of the Pacific League. It was then owned by a private railroad company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
