Two leaders at ISPS Handa – Championship

In Japan, the first round of the ISPS Handa – Championship smiled for the English Andy Sullivan and the South Korean Yeongsu Kim, both leading the rankings with a score of 63 (-7) shots. In Omitama, in the DP World Tour tournament, a start to forget and a finish to remember for Guido Migliozzi. The only blue in the match, the Vicenza player is 69/o with 69 (-1). Four bogeys and two birdies in the first nine holes played, four birdies (including three in the last five) and one bogey in the second for the 26-year-old from Veneto.

Andy Sullivan, results

On the course of the PGM Ishioka GC (par 70), Kim became the protagonist with a bogey free test supported by seven birdies against the eight made by Sullivan who, however, fouled his card with a bogey on hole 7 (par 4). Behind them, 3/i with 64 (-6) and just one stroke away, are the Canadian Aaron Cockerill, the Swede Alexander Bjork and the South African Deon Germishuys. Tussle in 6th place with 65 (-5), shared by eight players, including the Japanese Keita Nakajima, Ryutaro Nagano and Yosuke Asaji. While the Danish Rasmus Hojgaard and the Scottish Robert McIntyre, among the favorites of the eve, occupy the 14th place with 66 (-4).

Japan is an island state in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, Japan is bounded on the west by the Sea of Japan, on the north by the Sea of Okhotsk, on the east by the North Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the East China Sea. It is a mostly mountainous archipelago of 14,125 islands, the five largest of which are Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, and Okinawa, which alone account for about 97% of Japan’s land area. Many islands are mountains, some of volcanic origin; the highest peak is Fuji, a volcano that has been dormant since 1707. With a population of around 126 million, it is the 11th most populous country in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and several nearby prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world with over 38 million residents.

Archaeological research indicates that the archipelago has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic and the first written mention can be traced to a Chinese history book from the 1st century BC, the Book of Han. The country was long dominated by feudal lords and the samurai warrior caste, then by the bakufu until 1867, when it became a limited parliamentary empire. It was one of the great powers between the 19th and 20th centuries until the defeat of 1945, after which it embarked on a path of democratization: in 1947 a new constitution deprived the emperor of Japan of numerous powers and sanctioned the rebirth of the parliament.