An Ho-Yu (安禾佑) scored her second career ace, and a fifth lifetime, on the 4th hole at the Sunrise layout last week at the Wistron Ladies Open, using a 7-iron to hole it out from 161 yards. She seemed to carry that belief in herself and almost repeated the feat for the second week in a row at the Taiwan Mobile Ladies Open today.

On the par-3 6th hole at the Tong Hwa Golf & Country Club, An’s attack straight towards the flag landed just a whisker away from the hole after touching the pin. “I thought I got it again!” An said.

The Taiwan Mobile Ladies Open, in fact, has written one of the craziest records in the “ace” department, which seems unlikely to be broken.

During the 2018 event, also at the Tong Hwa Golf Club, three hole-in-ones were made on the same hole in the same round, with two of them happened in the same group, and there was even a fourth one on the identical hole that came right on the next day, making for a string of unprecedented achievements.

From the start of the new season, LPGA Tour player Hsu Wei-Ling (徐薇淩) intentionally chooses away from directly pitching to the pin in exchange of more consistency and a higher GIR percentage (72% in 2022, compared to 66% in 2021), but the decision puts her putting skills to test as it tends to leave with a longer distance on the greens. “The next goal is putting from mid to long range. This is a change I need to work on if I’m pursuing the next level,” said Hsu.

For any Japanese golfers, the standards of “golf etiquette” the Japan LPGA Tour implements might already be challenging to follow, not to mention for the young and non-local Wu Chia-Yen (吳佳晏).

“You’ll need to dip your body more than 30 degrees when you bow, with you vision looking past two meters long, in order to show enough of respect. When you are going up or down the stairs, you lightly tilt your body and move in smaller steps to show grace. These are just a tiny part the big etiquette system they are following, to pay the utmost respect to the sport and culture,” said Wu, who is testing herself on the JLPGA’s second-tier Step-Up Tour this year, and to get ready for playing it full-time in 2023.

Hou Yu-Sang (侯羽桑), who is also ready to kick-start her maiden campaign on the LPGA Tour next season in March, joked that the LPGA’s rookie program would emphasize on the “more practical things such as how to manage your tax return more efficiently!”

Wu aims high for her first full season in Japan in 2023. “Now that I’ve earned a full membership on the Step-Up Tour, I might be getting some opportunities to win the wildcards into no more than eight tournaments on the main JLPGA Tour, as long as I keep my world rankings around the 300 marks or better,” said Wu.