Hana Bank Preview & Pairings. Who will win? Can Stacy Lewis hold on to Player of the year?

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Congratulations goes out to Inbee Park for winning the Sime Darby Malaysia Championship. It was Inbee's second win this year on the LPGA tour, and she has moved into second place in the Player of the Year race. Stacy Lewis still holds a 40 point lead, but with 5 tournaments still to be played it is not over yet.

The tour moves to South Korea this week for the playing of the LPGA Hanna Bank Championship. It is stop number two on the current four stop Asian swing. Stops in Taiwan and Japan will follow.

This is tournament 23 of 27 this year. Here are the key details:

http://mlyhlss.blogspot.com/2012/10/lpga-hanna-bank-championship-preview.html

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Here are the first round pairings:

http://tinyurl.com/cmyrw3k

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Here are the first round leaders:

1 S. Pettersen -9
2 K. Sjodin -8
T3 A. Miyazato -6
T3 SY Ryu -6
T3 A. Munoz -6
T3 H. Kim-6
T3 H. Moon -6
8 Y. Tseng -5
T9 C. Matthew -4
T9 A. Stanford -4
T9 L. Thompson -4
T9 H. Kim -4
T9 K. Icher -4
T9 M. Harigae

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Here are the leaders after 2 rounds:

1 S. Pettersen -13
2 SY Ryu -8
T3 S. Pak -7
T3 S. Gal -7
T3 Y. Tseng -7
T6 L. Thompson -6
T6 C. Matthew -6
T6 H. Kim -6
T6 A. Munoz -6
10 K. Sjodin -5