Chie Arimura has decided to leave the U.S. LPGA tour and shift her base back to Japan, the Japanese golfer said on her blog site on Tuesday.
In an entry posted a day earlier, Arimura cited the Kumamoto earthquake disaster in April as one of the reasons she opted to make the move following the May 9-15 Symetra Classic in North Carolina.
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