China, Taiwan brace for PH Ladies Masters showdown

Unless the local aces stand and deliver, a China-Taiwan duel looms when the $80,000 ICTSI Philippine Ladies Masters is fired off on Thursday at The Country Club in Laguna.

Forty-five of the leading China LPGA campaigners, headed by Malaysian Michelle Koh, Thai Ploychompoo Wirairungrueng and Rebecca Tsai of Chinese Taipei, and 29 Taiwan LPGA frontrunners, including Ai Chen Kuo, Tzu-Chi Lin and Ching Huang, are raring to get going in pursuit of the crown in the biggest, richest ladies tournament in the country.