{"id":1936748,"date":"2025-10-11T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1936748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:00:32","slug":"%e3%80%90%e7%89%b9%e5%88%a5%e7%84%a1%e6%96%99%e5%85%ac%e9%96%8b%e3%80%91%e3%82%b4%e3%83%ab%e3%83%95%e3%82%a2%e3%83%8b%e3%83%a1%e3%80%8c%e3%82%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%a4%ef%bc%81%e3%81%a8%e3%82%93%e3%81%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1936748\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010\u7279\u5225\u7121\u6599\u516c\u958b\u3011\u30b4\u30eb\u30d5\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u30aa\u30fc\u30a4\uff01\u3068\u3093\u307c\u300d\u3010\u516826\u8a71\u30a4\u30c3\u30ad\u898b\uff01\u3011\u203b2025\u5e7410\u670820\u65e5\uff08\u6708\uff09\u307e\u3067 \u671f\u9593\u9650\u5b9a\u914d\u4fe1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSA34emHA38\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u3010\u7279\u5225\u7121\u6599\u516c\u958b\u3011\u30b4\u30eb\u30d5\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u30aa\u30fc\u30a4\uff01\u3068\u3093\u307c\u300d\u3010\u516826\u8a71\u30a4\u30c3\u30ad\u898b\uff01\u3011\u203b2025\u5e7410\u670820\u65e5\uff08\u6708\uff09\u307e\u3067 \u671f\u9593\u9650\u5b9a\u914d\u4fe1<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGood morning! Okay! When will you be here, Igaiga? TONBO! EPISODE 1<br \/>\nTONBO AND THE 3-IRON Are you okay? Guess all that wobbling last night<br \/>\ngot to me. Alright, you&#8217;re all good to go! Oh, a police man is in charge of that? Huh? Those aren&#8217;t working gloves\u2026<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re golf gloves. Oh. Where is he planning on using that? Did he think this was<br \/>\nthe ferry to some Okinawan resort? I know it&#8217;s silly. But\u2026 I just couldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nget myself to leave it behind. Mr. Ichiga Igarashi! Mr. Igaiga! Ah, yes! Over here!<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s actually Kazuyoshi Igarashi. Oh, so you&#8217;re Mr. Igaiga. I said, Kazuyo&#8211; You must be tired<br \/>\ncoming all the way from Kumamoto. Let me get your luggage\u2026 Huh? All of this is yours? Well\u2026 I&#8217;ll just ask with the office,<br \/>\nso give me a minute, okay hon? Did she say \u301dhon\u301e? This place really is<br \/>\nnothing but mountains and water. I really made it all the way to nowhere. What the\u2026?! Hey! You know you can&#8217;t<br \/>\ngo diving when the ferry is here! But you know, a guest is coming<br \/>\nto Grandma Setsu&#8217;s place today, so I&#8217;m welcoming him! You&#8217;re a wild child. She said his name is Igaiga! Igaiga? Yeah, Igaiga. I think that might be me. Really? Your name is Igaiga? Well, actually it&#8217;s not Igaiga, it&#8217;s Ig&#8211; Mr. Igaiga! You&#8217;ll work<br \/>\nat the development center, right? Well, if they decide to hire me, yeah. Why did you come to work on this island? Come on, tell me! Well, how do I put it\u2026 I guess I have some wounds to heal. Whoa! What are you doing?! I don&#8217;t see any wounds anywhere! It&#8217;s a figure of speech, you know! Well, peep this! I totally won this one. I guess\u2026? Shoot, I got to go to school. Bye. See you later! Welcome to Hino Island! It&#8217;s nice here, Igaiga! My name&#8217;s not\u2026 What an energetic kiddo. Mr. Igaiga! I brought the Director for you to meet. Oh my. He really brought his whole house, huh. Ah, hello. I was hoping to<br \/>\nstart work right away if you hire me\u2026 Guess that settles it. Thank you very much. My name is Hidaka. I work as director of the museum,<br \/>\nthe development center, and also the observatorium. Everyone just calls him Director. Nice to meet you, Mr. Igaiga. Pleasure is all mine. Your room at the development center isn&#8217;t<br \/>\nquite ready yet, so you&#8217;ll be staying with me<br \/>\nfor a little while. Okay. It&#8217;s for the cat to play with, I guess. Okay, this is it. Oh, it&#8217;s a hostel. Huh? Isn&#8217;t that a golf club? Hiya! Igaiga. -Oh, you again\u2026<br \/>\n-Tonbo! Get ready now<br \/>\nor you&#8217;ll be late for school! Okay! Tonbo? I haven&#8217;t seen<br \/>\none of these in a while. It&#8217;s an MTN III. Though\u2026 Why on Earth<br \/>\ndoes the kid have a 3-iron? Well, it&#8217;s a hard club to use. Guess that here even legends like this<br \/>\ncan end up as dust beaters\u2026 The grip is all worn down. It&#8217;s definitely been used a lot\u2026<br \/>\nBy the kid? That&#8217;s got to be the result of<br \/>\nsome pretty intense dust beating. That can&#8217;t be it. The leading edge is scratched up\u2026 It obviously hit<br \/>\nits fair share of golf balls. And it&#8217;s been used on<br \/>\nactual grass, not just mats. Does the lack of rust<br \/>\nmean it&#8217;s still being used by someone? I&#8217;m off! Huh?! Igaiga, Grandma Setsu said<br \/>\nbreakfast is ready. Wait a minute Tonbo, you&#8217;re a girl!? That&#8217;s mean. Can&#8217;t you tell? Right, sorry, of course. I&#8217;ll show you around<br \/>\nwhen I get home from school, so see you, Igaiga! -I told you, it&#8217;s not Igaiga&#8211;<br \/>\n-Bye! It&#8217;s \u301dIgarashi.\u301e Tonbo is not my grandchild. She&#8217;s Grandpa Gon&#8217;s grandchild. Grandpa Gon? He&#8217;s an old fisherman. Both Tonbo&#8217;s parents passed away<br \/>\nwhen she was only seven years old. It was an accident. So Grandpa Gon took her in after that<br \/>\nand he&#8217;s been raising her all on his own. Here you go. Time to take attendance. Tonbo Oi. Present! Tonbo is the only upperclassman<br \/>\nat the island&#8217;s middle school. Are there any other children here? We have 15 elementary schoolers. Let&#8217;s play soccer! Sure thing, Wataru and Yuma. Yay! We have no high school on the island. Once they start high school,<br \/>\nall the kids\u2026 \u2026Have to leave the island. As if I&#8217;d let you peek! You&#8217;re out of luck! I&#8217;m truly glad you came, Mr. Igaiga. You know, it&#8217;s a four-day,<br \/>\nthree-night trip to get from Tokyo to the Tokara Islands<br \/>\nand back, right? The ferry only leaves twice a week,<br \/>\nso if the ocean acts up and it&#8217;s cancelled\u2026 I remember one time we had tourists who<br \/>\nended up stuck here for a whole month. To be honest, I wasn&#8217;t sure anyone would<br \/>\nrespond to an ad for the job here. Mr. Fumihira,<br \/>\nwere you born on this island? Just call me Bumpei. I&#8217;ve hardly ever left this island. Even though this place really has<br \/>\nnothing but water and mountains. I see. Mr. Igaiga, do you play a lot of golf? How\u2026? I saw the golf bag among your belongings. Ah, no\u2026 Not that much\u2026 Wh-What happened? Hi, Yoko! Yoko\u2026 Bumpei! Focus on driving! Whoops. Yoko? She is a nurse at the clinic. A nurse? We don&#8217;t have any doctors on the island. She is the only nurse we have. If you ever feel under the weather,<br \/>\nshe will take care of you too. Don&#8217;t even think about<br \/>\ndropping by for no reason, alright?! Drive properly. This is where you&#8217;ll be working. Yes. You&#8217;ll be living here<br \/>\nas soon as the room is ready. They&#8217;re Tokara horses. They have never been<br \/>\ncrossed with other breeds. They&#8217;re one of the few<br \/>\npurebred native horses in Japan. I did expect it to be rural, but\u2026 This is way beyond regular rural\u2026 The island has this and one other store. It&#8217;s closed. It&#8217;s open for about three hours a day. But really it depends on the owner&#8217;s mood. I think the vending machine is<br \/>\nthe only other place to spend money. Though we only have one. One? On the whole island? Is that a wedge club? Nah, that can&#8217;t be in a place like this. Grandpa Gon! Did you catch a lot today? So-so I guess. So this must be Tonbo&#8217;s grandfather. -Hello. I am Igara&#8211;<br \/>\n-This is Igaiga. You know, the one who&#8217;s<br \/>\ngoing to work at the development center! Are you skipping the ball rolling today? Yeah, I&#8217;m showing Igaiga around today. \u201dBall rolling\u301d? Do you mean\u2026 You don&#8217;t mean golfing, do you? I mean, you don&#8217;t even<br \/>\nhave a golf course here. Do you want to go? It&#8217;s this way! What the\u2026 Where exactly is this kid going? Even if she calls it a course,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s probably just a little spot of green\u2026 Here we are. What?! There is no way! Incredible\u2026 They took advantage of the seaside terrain and made a perfect links! People on the island<br \/>\nmade it for ourselves. Everyone keeps their clubs in here. You can use one from in there to play! Huh? Feels like a good headwind today. Here I go. She holds it<br \/>\nlike you would a baseball bat. I guess she&#8217;s just playing for fun\u2026 And that extremely open stance\u2026 She&#8217;s making sure to face the ocean. For this kind of slope, usually you&#8217;d want to<br \/>\ngo for a low, strong draw. To a girl, a 3-iron is a long, hard club to use<br \/>\nfor that kind of hit. Guess she&#8217;s countering a severe slice? Fly! Roll under the wind<br \/>\nlike a swallow before the rain! How did she manipulate it like that? Right before her swing peaked, she tensed the back of her left hand, aiming for a low shot<br \/>\nby adjusting the loft? And then she bent that shaft<br \/>\nlike it was some kind of unbreakable club\u2026 On top of that\u2026 She clipped the grass<br \/>\na good four inches in front of the ball. There you go! Yay! It&#8217;s your turn, Igaiga! Igaiga? Huh? Where\u2019s your club? I didn&#8217;t want to use someone&#8217;s club<br \/>\nwithout their permission. Do you want to use mine, then? I only have this one, though. Only this one? You learned how to play golf<br \/>\nwith just this one club? Yeah! Here. Oh, you look kind of cool! It looks totally different<br \/>\nfrom when everyone else does it! Really? Barely anyone<br \/>\nuses this kind of club anymore. But she learned with this 3 iron? Yours went so much farther than mine!<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re amazing, Igaiga! I&#8217;ve never seen someone so good before! It didn&#8217;t feel like<br \/>\nI was cutting through grass\u2026 It was more like<br \/>\nmy club bounced off a plank. The ground is super hard. But here you are going to<br \/>\nhave to shoot the ball like I did. Huh? Look. The fairway over there is<br \/>\nslanting towards the ocean. Okay, my turn next! How was it, Igaiga? Did you like our golf course? It honestly took me by surprise. I never expected such an<br \/>\nincredible golf course on this island. I don&#8217;t know about incredible. All of us can barely manage to<br \/>\nroll the ball along on the ground. It&#8217;s hardly golf. Speak for yourself, Bumpei. We are very serious about it when we play. Playing on that course, you can never<br \/>\npredict where the ball will end up. Exactly. That&#8217;s why<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re rolling it around. The only one who<br \/>\nkeeps struggling to do it is you. Hey, that&#8217;s mean! Tadah!<br \/>\nI got octopus freshly caught this morning! Guys, Igaiga is amazing! He&#8217;s totally different from you all. Huh? Ah, no, she&#8217;s exaggerating. How&#8217;s he different? Well, his ball went like vroom! -Huh?<br \/>\n-And he swung it like, wham! It was so cool. Doesn&#8217;t it sound cool? You&#8217;re making it hard to imagine. Looks like Tonbo got<br \/>\na new friend to play with. It&#8217;s cloudy. Huh? His eyes are gray. That guy. Like a fish<br \/>\njust seconds before it gets caught. Igaiga. You look scary. Sorry. We only played one hole today,<br \/>\nbut let&#8217;s play a lot more next time, okay? Ah. Y-yeah. Whoopsie. There it is. This is unplayable, huh. Unplawhat? If I can&#8217;t hit it, we add a stroke. Yes, and that&#8217;s called an unplayable ball. Oh, I get it! Whoa, you know your stuff, Igaiga! Amazing! Igaiga, are you sure<br \/>\nyou never played here before?! Of course I haven&#8217;t.<br \/>\nAlso, it&#8217;s still not Igaiga&#8230; Of course a pro can do this\u2026 Go! The wall is too close.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s too straight up and down. No way she can do this with a 3 iron. She turned the face<br \/>\nbasically towards the sky. She&#8217;s going to shoot from there? She wants to<br \/>\ndo a bunker shot with a 3 iron? No way. She&#8217;ll never be able to shoot high enough. Where&#8217;d my ball go? Yippee! I can&#8217;t believe this. That kind of shot is impossible,<br \/>\nbut she did it anyways. How did she do it? How did she get it over that wall? Igaiga. You&#8217;re looking scary again. I told you already, it&#8217;s Igara&#8211; You know what, Igaiga is fine. Yay! Igaiga it is! Huh? Wait, did you just&#8211;? You were just pretending to<br \/>\nnot hear me objecting, were you? I heard nothing! Igaiga! I thought this island<br \/>\nwould have nothing to offer\u2026 But it has an amazing golf course. And a girl whose play is amazing too\u2026 Tonbo. This girl\u2026 Could she be\u2026 I bet you&#8217;re<br \/>\nhiding some kind of secret! Wha&#8211; I do not. Come on, spill! What do you want me to say? Why do you look so scary? Stop saying that! Next time on Tonbo! \u301dThe secret of the 3 iron.\u301e Guess you&#8217;ll be the one spilling things. It&#8217;ll stay a secret until then! I&#8217;m home! I&#8217;m going to play with Igaiga! Be back before dark! Of course! Have you seen Igaiga? Geez. This is never going to end! TONBO! EPISODE 2<br \/>\nTHE SECRET OF THE 3-IRON They said weed cutting<br \/>\nwould be part of my job, but so far that&#8217;s all it is. Wh&#8230; Tonbo. Igaiga, you&#8217;re making a scary face again. My shoulders and back are killing me. You got this, Igaiga. Grandpa Gon! You&#8217;re good at that. You think so? Thanks a lot. Tonbo. Help me cut and hang the fish. Yes. Sorry, Igaiga. I can&#8217;t hang out anymore. Right. Hey, Tonbo. What? Do you think it would be okay for me to go play at<br \/>\nthat golf course you showed me? The golf course belongs to you too now! Practically tilting<br \/>\nthe face towards the sky&#8230; Going as far away<br \/>\nfrom the ball as possible&#8230; How was Tonbo able to<br \/>\nget the ball out of here? I don&#8217;t get it. No wedge club&#8230; How on Earth did she<br \/>\npull this off with a 3 iron? There&#8217;s a trick to it. Tonbo. See? I see. She bent her left wrist on the takeaway, thus opening the face even more. So the trick is the left hand. The trick is in the right hand! What? The right hand? Yeah! It stinks, right? I cut up so many fish. Why&#8217;d you have me smell that? Tell me how to use my right hand! Stop your swing as your right hand<br \/>\npositions to hit the ball. It&#8217;s the same<br \/>\nwhen you make a loop with a rope. You let it run through your fingertips, then quickly stop it,<br \/>\nand it creates a hoop. In the same way, you use your right hand&#8230; And you can<br \/>\nshoot a ball high out of a bunker. Again with that scary face, Igaiga. Let&#8217;s go. Huh? Igaiga! Wait! I want to see more<br \/>\nof the way she plays golf. Are you kidding me?! This is quite an intimidating hole. If you miss,<br \/>\nthe ball ends up in the ocean. -The wind is gentle today.<br \/>\n-Huh? I see&#8230; Here, this kind of wind<br \/>\nwould be considered gentle. Whoa! The sound is completely different! It doesn&#8217;t lift at all, flying straight!<br \/>\nLike a real sparrow! You&#8217;re amazing, Igaiga. How can you shoot it so straight? My balls always curve no matter what I do. It&#8217;s your turn, Tonbo. Even if she called it gentle,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s quite the strong headwind&#8230; And it&#8217;s a heavy set sea breeze<br \/>\nladen with salt and moisture. That&#8217;s not easy with a 3 iron&#8230; Let me see. How will you handle this, Tonbo? Why is she taking such an open stance? It looks like she&#8217;s<br \/>\nsetting up to loft the ball. If you pop it up that much&#8230; It&#8217;s going to curve to the left. The wind is coming<br \/>\nfrom two different directions. See how the osprey&#8217;s tilting its head right? Down here, we&#8217;re facing a headwind, but up above,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s blowing from the right to the left. Aww&#8230; I was aiming more to the right. Igaiga. Your scary face is back&#8230; The break was more intense<br \/>\nthan the slope suggested&#8230; Going with the grain from here&#8230; She even puts with the 3 iron&#8230; Usually you&#8217;d use an actual putter. Well, guess that&#8217;s how she does it. She hit it dead-center. Her stance is different. I did it!! Tonbo. Why did you<br \/>\nchange the way you hit the ball? Because the return shot<br \/>\nwill go against the grain, right? If you tap it from the top,<br \/>\nit rolls way smoother. She&#8217;s right. Pressing down on the ball from above makes the ball make a small jump. It will roll smoothly<br \/>\nwithout resistance from the grain. I guess&#8230; She might not know the theory behind it, but she probably naturally<br \/>\nlearned through play. Why is there a bench here of all places? So you can watch the sunset. It&#8217;s too cloudy to see today, but it&#8217;s there so you can sit comfortably<br \/>\nand watch a beautiful sunset. I hope I&#8217;ll get to see that one day. You can, as many times as you want. I mean, you&#8217;re going to<br \/>\nstay on the island forever, right? Huh? Forever? I&#8217;ll be here. I&#8217;ll stay on this island forever! I&#8217;ll never go anywhere else! Tonbo&#8230; Once they start high school,<br \/>\nall the kids have to leave the island. It&#8217;s a low ball<br \/>\nbut it doesn&#8217;t bend at all. You&#8217;re only 100 yards from the green. Igaiga, you&#8217;re so cool!<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re seriously awesome! I don&#8217;t deserve<br \/>\nthose admiring eyes of yours. It went into the rough&#8230; I was trying to make it<br \/>\nfly the way yours did, but it curved too much&#8230; You look scary every time it&#8217;s my turn. Oh. Sorry. It&#8217;s just for fun, remember?<br \/>\nSo smile! In the second drive, she folded the back of her hand inward&#8230; This time she folded the opposite way. I&#8217;m sure about it now&#8230; She controls<br \/>\nhow the ball curves every time. With it being this deep,<br \/>\na 3-iron will barely manage a duff. Do you want to borrow my wedge? No. I&#8217;ll use this. Where is she shooting it? Yay! It&#8217;s Grandpa Gon&#8217;s boat! A boat? Just like the bow of a boat<br \/>\nslices through the water, if you enter the rough<br \/>\nwith the pointed tip of the club, it&#8217;s no big deal<br \/>\neven if the grass is long. Igaiga, are you looking scary again&#8230;? Ah, I can&#8217;t see it. I can&#8217;t see a thing. We did start<br \/>\nplaying the course quite late. Nights feel completely different here. Have they always been this dark? A ghost?! Tonbo! Tonbo! Oi! Bumpei! Officer! Huh? We thought you might be at the course&#8230; Oh, she&#8217;s with you. Uh&#8230; yeah. I believe I told you<br \/>\nto be back before dark. I was seconds away from making them<br \/>\ndo a PA announcement to find you! I&#8217;m really sorry. Regardless, we&#8217;re glad you&#8217;re okay. I apologize. I was the one<br \/>\nwho insisted we keep on playing. Don&#8217;t make us worry, alright? Right. They all still think of me as a guest. Let&#8217;s go home, then. -See you.<br \/>\n-Thanks! Um&#8211;! -I apologize!<br \/>\n-We&#8217;re going home, Tonbo. Okay. Bye. You come too. What? What&#8217;s wrong? You&#8217;re so quiet. Well&#8230; I&#8217;m not that big of a fan of your grandpa. Why not? He&#8217;s just kind of intimidating. Intimidating? He is no such thing! He&#8217;s the nicest man in the world. Nice? He always says this thing. \u301dKindness is strength.\u301e \u301dKindness\u301e and \u301dStrength\u301e<br \/>\n\u3000are one and the same. Let&#8217;s dig in! It&#8217;s sooo good! Igaiga, aren&#8217;t you eating? Igaiga? I beg your forgiveness. My actions led to<br \/>\nTonbo staying out past her curfew. You&#8217;re funny. You sound so formal. I don&#8217;t want<br \/>\nany bothersome talk at the dinnertable. Thank you. What were you doing<br \/>\nbefore you came to this island? Well&#8230; That&#8217;s&#8230; Uh&#8230; I was a, um, truck driver&#8230; That&#8217;s not what I meant. Huh? I&#8217;m not asking about your job. I am asking how you lived. How&#8230; I lived? Before you came to this island&#8230; Did you live? Or were you dead? PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ORGANIZATION<br \/>\nMEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE I was dead. This island is like a place forgotten by the world. Thanks to that, those who drift here, are usually folks who are clumsy at life. And those who are<br \/>\nborn and raised on Hinoshima start to yearn for the city and leave. My son was no different. And then he passed. I suppose&#8230; I might be clumsy too. I don&#8217;t know. Take your time<br \/>\nand find the answer here on this island. The sky has cleared.<br \/>\nThe stars are so bright now. It&#8217;s a new moon today.<br \/>\nTake him to the bank to see. Gotcha. Tonbo&#8230; Why is it you only use a 3-iron? 3-iron?<br \/>\nEveryone else just called it a long 3. Yeah, that&#8217;s what I mean. Why do you only use that one? Look! Everyone here is proud of this view. It feels like time has stood still. I wonder which ones are my mom and dad. They say that when people die,<br \/>\nthey become stars, right? You&#8217;re bringing this many? There are a lot of ponds<br \/>\non today&#8217;s course. It&#8217;s mommy&#8217; first time to play,<br \/>\nso I have to bring a lot. That&#8217;s rude. That&#8217;s nice. I want to come with you guys! I&#8217;ll teach you and we can play together<br \/>\nwhen you get a little bigger. Yeah! Here we go. Aren&#8217;t you taking it with? It&#8217;s too hard for me to use. We&#8217;ll pick you up from school<br \/>\non the way back, okay? Okay! My son&#8217;s about to<br \/>\nstudy for his college exams&#8230; Can&#8217;t you take her in? Yeah, your kid&#8217;s<br \/>\nabout the same age as Tonbo. Have you lost your mind?<br \/>\nI have a business to run! You take her. There&#8217;s no way I&#8217;ll have time for her. She should go back to the island. Grandpa&#8217;s the only one left there. I don&#8217;t want her. Well, neither do we! It doesn&#8217;t matter,<br \/>\nsomeone has to take her! Tonbo&#8230; Grandpa&#8230; It&#8217;s the golf club that my dad left me. I&#8217;m sorry.<br \/>\nI made you think of something painful. A three iron&#8230; \u301d3 iron\u301e&#8230; It sounds really cool. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to call it now too! That&#8217;s nice. I&#8217;m off to school! When Tonbo came to the island she didn&#8217;t say a word. She never showed any feelings at all. It was too hard for Grandpa Gon to handle. Everyone on the island<br \/>\npitched in to look after her, hoping to help her<br \/>\nheal her heart bit by bit. Though I think in the end<br \/>\nwhat truly helped her heal was remembering her parents and being on this island. I&#8217;ll be here. I&#8217;ll stay on this island forever! I&#8217;ll never go anywhere else! She&#8217;ll be<br \/>\ngraduating middle school next spring. But that girl&#8230; I&#8217;m home! Oh. Oh, Igaiga! You came &#8216;cause you couldn&#8217;t wait for me? I&#8217;ll just go change&#8211; Tonbo. Hm? What are you<br \/>\ngoing to do about high school? The island doesn&#8217;t have a high school. I&#8217;m not going to high school. I&#8217;m staying on the island. Tonbo&#8230; Have you ever regretted something you did? I mean, I can&#8217;t say I haven&#8217;t. That&#8217;s why you always look scary. You really won&#8217;t<br \/>\nstop talking about that, will you? Next time on Tonbo! \u301dWedges and regrets!\u301e Do you even know what a wedge is? -It&#8217;s that way!<br \/>\n-That&#8217;s \u301dwest\u301e! See ya! Come on, Igaiga! Grandpa Gon let us come along on the boat,<br \/>\nso we&#8217;ve got to catch some fish already! You came to the island<br \/>\nat a good time of year. In June, flying fish come<br \/>\nclose to the Tokara islands to spawn. If you dip the fishing nets<br \/>\nin the water at night time, the fish jump in by themselves. We don&#8217;t even need to use bait. Igaiga, you &#8216;re looking scary. The boat is wobbling a lot\u2026 She&#8217;s using her toes<br \/>\nto get a good grip on the wet deck. It seems to have become a second nature<br \/>\nto the ones living on this island. Yippee! Tonbo. What are you<br \/>\ngoing to do about high school? The island doesn&#8217;t have a high school. I&#8217;m not going to high school. I&#8217;m staying on the island. TONBO! EPISODE 3<br \/>\nWEDGES AND REGRETS Amazing. He&#8217;s going completely straight. Impressive. How&#8217;d he do that? Igaiga is so cool. Where did you learn this? Huh? Cutting the grass on a green<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t a job for just anybody. That&#8217;s right! Ah, well, I kind of had<br \/>\na part-time job at a golf course once\u2026 You&#8217;re quite something. Wait &#8216;till you see the way he plays golf! All of you are in for a treat. Huh? It&#8217;s the first time<br \/>\nfor me to see Mr. Igaiga play golf. Me too. It&#8217;s a tailwind today. He might even be able to get a one-on. I have to hold back a little. But if I make it too obviously strange,<br \/>\nthat won&#8217;t work either. Right. I have to do the opposite of that. Amazing! It landed right in front of the bunker. It is exactly like Tonbo said! So? -It&#8217;s not right.<br \/>\n-Huh? This is not right. Why, Igaiga? Huh? Come on, Tonbo. It&#8217;s your turn. Tonbo? I can&#8217;t stand liars. What do you mean, \u301dliar\u301e? I kept telling everyone how amazing he is. I really meant it. Nice one! Well done. Hmph. She&#8217;s purehearted. So was he. Here we go! The rolling ball! It&#8217;s a two-on! The balls really get pushed along by the wind. Which means that the second stroke\u2026 Should be treated like a slice of sashimi. Yippee! Oh, wow. Se managed to control the run by slightly opening the face and went for a cut spin\u2026 Opening, closing, drawing, and stopping\u2026 She handles that 3-iron like it&#8217;s nothing. Imagine if she was<br \/>\ngiven a different club\u2026 Like a wedge\u2026 That&#8217;s how you really<br \/>\nget to control the ball. I want to make her try it.<br \/>\nActually, I have to make her try. Tonbo. How about you give it a shot with a wedge club today? No thanks. She didn&#8217;t even consider it. -Come on!<br \/>\n-Huh? The liar gets punished. It landed on top of<br \/>\nthe sand in a divot mark. How would you<br \/>\nuse the 3-iron if it were you? It&#8217;s over a bunker,<br \/>\nand from sand like this, you can&#8217;t open up and lift it, nor can you stop it I&#8217;d shoot it over there. All that&#8217;d do is land it on the green. Oh, man. I swear it landed somewhere around here. Why do we always lose balls when you play? Now, if you were to use a wedge\u2026 It&#8217;s a hard green and a tailwind. By no means easy circumstances. It didn&#8217;t go too far. You duffed on purpose, didn&#8217;t you? Yeah. With a 3-iron, you can&#8217;t get it<br \/>\nout of here with less than 3 strokes. But using a wedge,<br \/>\nyou can cut that down to two. Give it a go, Tonbo. O-Okay. Actually, no. That&#8217;s it. I will make her try a wedge somehow. A FEW DAYS LATER That ought to be the last one. So this place is<br \/>\ngoing to be my new castle. Actually, no. I wonder how I can<br \/>\nmake her try using a wedge. I got an idea. I&#8217;ll borrow this, okay? It would&#8217;ve been<br \/>\neasier to just use a cutter\u2026 It&#8217;s the golf club that my dad left me. But that&#8217;s definitely out of the question. Hey! Tonbo! Come play soccer with us! Not today guys, sorry! She only hangs out with Igaiga. -Igaiga!<br \/>\n-Hey. Wait, isn&#8217;t that my 3-iron? Try holding it. That&#8217;s a new grip. It&#8217;s so nice to hold now. It&#8217;s like it just melts into my hand! The old grip had seen better days. With the new grip,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll be able to hit way farther. Yeah. Thank you, Igaiga! Where&#8217;s the old grip? The grip that used to be on it<br \/>\nwas the one my father used. Why did you just change it? Why didn&#8217;t you ask first? Right, I know it&#8217;s important to you. That grip holds a lot of<br \/>\nimportant memories of your dad. I bet you want to try<br \/>\nto use this wedge now, don&#8217;t you? Yeah. I&#8217;m not sure how to do this. However you want to do it. One\u2026 two\u2026 three\u2026 \u202628\u2026 29\u2026 30. Try to aim for me. Just like you would do it with the 3 iron. Golf has more rules than any other sport. There are a lot of dos and donts that you need to memorize to a T. Or so I thought, until I saw Tonbo play. Because maybe, in reality,<br \/>\nthe rules are meant to be broken. All golfers want to make a perfect swing. But Tonbo wants to make the perfect ball. That didn&#8217;t go far at all.<br \/>\nAnd it barely even rolled. That&#8217;s because the face is angled. You need to make<br \/>\na much larger swing than with a 3 iron. Alright! If it doesn&#8217;t roll on its own,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have to make it. I&#8217;ll make it a rollerbird! Hm? A rollerbird? Oh?<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s lifting it all the way behind her. Yes! It&#8217;s rolling! It reached you! I can&#8217;t recall ever before seeing someone<br \/>\ndo such extreme inside-out swing on an approach shot\u2026 Alright, this time\u2026 She did the opposite! It was a complete outside swing. Whoa! It stops so quickly! That wedge club used to belong to Rintaro. Baseball practice is really tough. It&#8217;s not like when you were in elementary\u2026 Honestly\u2026 I just like golf. Dad. Please coach me in golf. I want to be a pro golfer. For now, you&#8217;ll<br \/>\nonly be using this one club. Don&#8217;t touch the other clubs. During both the backswing<br \/>\nand the follow-through, you mustn&#8217;t raise the club<br \/>\nhigher than your hips. Okay. Hit a hundred balls and make 90 of them<br \/>\ncarry into that circle. 90 out of 100\u2026? You will continue doing it<br \/>\nuntil you succeed. Yes! To him, becoming a pro golfer is just an excuse to quit baseball. Dad! I did it! I landed 92 balls inside of the circle! There&#8217;s no way he can do it. No amateur can do that\u2026<br \/>\nEspecially not on a bare ground like this. I got nervous knowing you&#8217;re watching me. I&#8217;ll try again\u2026 Dad? If you really want<br \/>\nto quit baseball that bad, just do it. Instead of lying. I wasn&#8217;t lying. I swear I landed 92 balls<br \/>\nin the circle. Watch! I only hit one ball just now. I don&#8217;t need to see any more than that. I swear I&#8230; You always avoid things<br \/>\ninstead of facing them head on. You&#8217;ll end up<br \/>\nliving your whole life halfway. Dad\u2026 I wasn&#8217;t lying! Dad! If I could go back in time I would want to return to that moment. The truth is that at that time, I couldn&#8217;t<br \/>\ncreate any results in my own play. I took all my stress<br \/>\nand disappointment out on Rintaro. He wasn&#8217;t the one avoiding things. I was. And because of me Rintaro quit golf. Go, rollerbird! I took the joy of swinging<br \/>\naway from Rintaro. I put him in a box. If only\u2026 I&#8217;d let him play<br \/>\nthe way he wanted instead\u2026 I did it! Okay, I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nland the next ball to the right\u2026 The joy of playing golf\u2026 I&#8217;m back! I&#8217;m off! She&#8217;s been in and out like that every day lately. Looks like she truly<br \/>\nfound herself a wonderful playmate. The first hole starts here. Upwards? There&#8217;s nowhere for you to aim. Unless I go for where<br \/>\nthere aren&#8217;t as many leaves&#8230; I did it! You forced it through, huh\u2026 Is that the same bird? It&#8217;s a Ryukyu Robin. Ryukyu Robin? It only lives on the Tokara Islands. It&#8217;s actually used as a symbol here. It really likes<br \/>\nthe sunsets over the ocean, so it only wants to live here. They say that&#8217;s why its red. Because the sunset dyed its feathers. It&#8217;s the color of the sunset, is it? Yeah. That&#8217;s what the Director told me. Now that you finally have a wedge how about I teach you<br \/>\na game you can&#8217;t play with a 3-iron? Huh? Both of them<br \/>\nare flying completely straight! The angle of<br \/>\nthe face on the 3-iron is too slanted so if you use that club,<br \/>\nthe first ball will hit the second one. But if you hit with a wedge one ball will fly above the other. This seems fun! The first ball curved to the left\u2026 Once you hit the first ball the face will always turn to the left. This helps one practice<br \/>\nmaintaining a lasting impact zone. Okay then. But to her, it&#8217;s just about having fun. I think this one went better! And yet somehow It&#8217;s not uncommon for people to completely miss the ball<br \/>\nthe first time they try this. One more try. But Tonbo learned how to play<br \/>\non a windswept island. She&#8217;s really good at hitting low shots. She doesn&#8217;t lift or scoop the ball. It&#8217;s not part of her swing at all. Tonbo. Hm? You can use a wedge for that. That&#8217;s so cool. You can do this too. That&#8217;s so cool!<br \/>\nI want to try too, let me try! It&#8217;s really hard. If you start picking up<br \/>\nyour own balls with the wedge, then you&#8217;ll automatically<br \/>\nlearn how to lift with it. That&#8217;s how trainees do it too. What&#8217;s a trainee? They work at golf courses while studying<br \/>\nto become professional golfers. Have you ever<br \/>\nthought about becoming a professional? Why do you ask? Well, women&#8217;s tournaments are<br \/>\npretty popular nowadays, and you can make quite the bit of money. Where on the island<br \/>\nwould I spend that kind of money? I don&#8217;t need it. I&#8217;ll stay on this island forever! I&#8217;ll never go anywhere else! It really seems like Hino Island is her whole world. Amazing\u2026 I know, right? Told you it&#8217;s pretty. It looks like<br \/>\nthe sun is just melting into the ocean. They knew what they were doing<br \/>\nputting this bench here. I expected to<br \/>\nnot be able to play golf ever again. But I am playing everyday. I used to have lots of rivals and enemies.<br \/>\nBut I never had a partner before. It&#8217;s the first time<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had a friend to play with. She&#8217;s younger than my son, but\u2026 Her way of playing is refreshing. I forgot how much fun golf could be. Igaiga? Oh, sorry. Looks like the Director was right. Hm? The Ryukyu Robin had<br \/>\nthe exact same color as this sunset. You got that one right. Oh my gosh, what do I do!? Go ahead, tell me what&#8217;s on your mind. Should I eat the tako sashimi<br \/>\nwith soy sauce or wasabi first?! What a luxury problem you got. Next time on Tonbo! Sashimi Shot! Igaiga, help me choose! Alright, my job here is done! Hey! Tonb&#8211; Good grief, Tonbo! Oh, Igaiga! I&#8217;ll see you there, okay! Hey! Tonbo! Tonbo! That child! Is everything alright? She became absorbed in<br \/>\nthe game you taught her. Look at this mess. The game I taught her? Do you mean&#8230; It doesn&#8217;t matter that it&#8217;s indoors<br \/>\nor the middle of the night. Even though<br \/>\nthe typhoon season is coming up&#8230; I&#8217;m sorry, sir&#8211; Ow! TONBO! That&#8217;s a huge bump! I haven\u2019t been hit like that since my mom whacked me<br \/>\nback in elementary school. And you shouldn&#8217;t be laughing at it. It&#8217;s only been three days<br \/>\nsince I showed her how to do this. And the grand finale&#8230; Don&#8217;t tell me&#8230; I can&#8217;t do it, after all Geez&#8230; Hey, Tonbo. These nut-like things are<br \/>\neverywhere on the island, aren&#8217;t they? They taste sweet,<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re pretty delicious. They&#8217;re not delicious whatsoever! Well, anyways, I can do this now! Huh? Should I make more space between them? Make space? I taught her a three-ball distance. That&#8217;s hitting them with<br \/>\nabout 15 centimeters inbetween. If you manage to create a perfectly straight impact zone then both balls will fly straight. But&#8230; There&#8217;s room for at least five balls<br \/>\nbetween those. Maybe even six. That means she needs to create an impact zone<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s almost 30 centimeters long. That&#8217;s a significant length. Yay! I&#8217;ve never seen a divot this long. That&#8217;s incredible&#8230; Igaiga. You got that scary look<br \/>\non your face again. Tell me, are you&#8230; Attention! Yes sir! Face straight! Wh-what&#8217;s going on?! Put your hands together. Wh-what&#8217;s happening? I was right. Your right arm is longer than the left. At impact, there should be<br \/>\nsome looseness in the right elbow. This slight bend allows for<br \/>\nthe clubhead to be guided straight until the arm is completely extended. If the right arm is longer, it lets you<br \/>\npush the ball for that much longer. As a result, she was able to<br \/>\nhit the two balls that far apart. You&#8217;re pretty good at that. Banyan trees have thick leaves,<br \/>\nso the sound is nice. It&#8217;s&#8230; a goat&#8230; There are<br \/>\na lot of wild goats on the island. Probably more than people. Then how come<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never seen any until now? They&#8217;re avoiding that scary face of yours. I&#8230; Is that&#8230; Tonbo! You! I just never expected you to<br \/>\nactually try to eat it! This is the good stuff. I heard you munched on a goat poop? Did it taste good? I guess it does look<br \/>\na lil bit like a nut, I&#8217;ll give him that. Dang that brat, Tonbo. Hiya! Good evening! Good evening. Oh, Tonbo and Yoko,<br \/>\nyou came together today? Y-Yoko is here? Yoko? Oh&#8230; The nurse&#8230; Yoko, you&#8217;re not like us, your skin is so smooth. It&#8217;s so bouncy. You flatter me too much! Don&#8217;t be so modest! Bouncy&#8230; Oh? Oh, ice cream. I ran to buy them. Thanks. -What makes you think I got it for you?!<br \/>\n-Eh? Oh, Igaiga! This is the guy who ate a goat poop. Tonbo&#8212; Oh, my. Mr. Igaiga, right? I am Yoko Adaniya. Nice to meet you, I&#8217;m Igara&#8211; Hi, Yoko! Would you like an ice cream? Oh, I see what&#8217;s happening. He&#8217;s so obvious. Thank you. Thanks, Bunpei! Huh? Ah, no&#8211;&#8230; How nice, huh, Tonbo? No, I meant&#8230; together&#8230; Ah, little Tonbo&#8230; Tonbo! Hi! Hi Wataru! Come do a knock with that! Alright! Knock? Why did Igaiga have to come along too? Here I go! Too easy! In that case&#8230; That one&#8217;s easy too! No fair! Okay, next! Alright, alright! Come on guys! Get ready for the next one! She&#8217;s fresh out of the bath, but already covered in sweat again. She really likes it a lot. It&#8217;s a thin cut! Maybe I should try golf too. I&#8217;ll need a teacher. No need to ask twice&#8211; I&#8217;ll ask Tonbo. She&#8217;s shooting with a golf club<br \/>\ninstead of a bat, but she&#8217;s so good at it. Ahead! Ahead! Ready for the next one?! Mr. Igaiga? What&#8217;s wrong?<br \/>\nYou got a scary look on your face. This kid&#8230; A baseball is<br \/>\nsignificantly larger than a golf ball. It&#8217;s obvious<br \/>\nwhere you should place the club. Tonbo varied her shots<br \/>\nbetween high and low&#8230; She wasn\u2019t just aiming for the center. but positioned the leading edge everywhere. Is it possible&#8230; That she does the same with a golf ball? I&#8217;m&#8230; fairly sure it is. Golfers often obsess over<br \/>\nthe horizontal path of their swings, But they neglect the vertical aspect. Most focus solely on<br \/>\naligning the leading edge perfectly where the ball meets the ground. But a golf ball has depth&#8230; If I had understood sooner the importance<br \/>\nof placing the leading edge&#8230; I probably wouldn&#8217;t have needed<br \/>\nthree attempts at the professional exam. Grandpa Gon! Oh! It&#8217;s an ara! It&#8217;s huge! It&#8217;s a really big one. The whole thing was<br \/>\nthe size of a small child. The shark bit off two thirds of it. Don&#8217;t worry!<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still plenty of it left. Hold on&#8230; Did you make all of this? I doubt a lot of other fifteen year olds are as skilled with a knife as Tonbo is. It&#8217;s sashimi, right? I sliced those thinly for hotpot. I parboiled the skin and chopped it up.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good with ponzu! Deep fried fish skin tastes just like potato chips. It&#8217;s summer,<br \/>\nbut we&#8217;re having hotpot. Ara tastes best<br \/>\nin a good hotpot, you know. Wait &#8216;till you taste the porridge<br \/>\nwhen we finish. I can&#8217;t believe<br \/>\nyou managed to slice it this thin&#8230; It&#8217;s just like<br \/>\nmaking a sashimi shot in golf. What do you mean sashimi shot? When you slice sashimi,<br \/>\nyou cut at an angle, right? You want to slice white fish thinly,<br \/>\nso that needs a sharp angle. And for fish like tuna,<br \/>\nyou should just tilt it a little bit. For octopus you want thick slices, so you just cut straight down! Thin cut! She thought of the golf club<br \/>\nas a knife for sashimi. Why do you look scary again?<br \/>\nIt gives the food a bad taste. Sorry for being late. What&#8217;s with that getup? Is it some kind of new golf wear? Grandpa Gon was about to cut my hair,<br \/>\nbut I ran off&#8230; Your hair? Oh, right. Guess there&#8217;s<br \/>\nno hairdresser on the island&#8211; I hate how short he always cuts it. No, I don&#8217;t want it, no!  A short cut now lasts three months. Otherwise we&#8217;ll be<br \/>\nright back here in just a month. He always says so. If Yoko does it, it looks cute, but&#8230; Anyways, let&#8217;s play! I got a bogey on the first hole,<br \/>\nso it&#8217;s your turn. With this much wind, I can&#8217;t hit the green unless I aim towards the ocean. It&#8217;s a south wind<br \/>\ncoming directly from the side. The question is&#8230; How far out to sea should I aim&#8230; I guess somewhere<br \/>\naround the edge of that cloud. But hitting it towards the open sea<br \/>\nis kind of scary. I need to be sure I know its direction<br \/>\nif the wind doesn&#8217;t catch it as strongly. Okay. That&#8217;s what I get for playing it safe. You almost got it. Tonbo always<br \/>\nfocuses on the ball when she plays. She plays the course<br \/>\nthrough curves and bends. Her address position doesn&#8217;t ever tell me much. She usually has an open stance,  but her shoulder<br \/>\nand clubface angles are inconsistent. However, I&#8217;ve played with her enough now<br \/>\nto be able to tell what she&#8217;s aiming for. She turns her left collarbone<br \/>\nin the direction she wants to shoot. Her stance is facing far off to the left,<br \/>\nover the sea&#8230; But her collarbone is<br \/>\ntowards the left edge of the cape. The angle is&#8230; Into the sky! She&#8217;s going to<br \/>\nmake the ball battle the wind. She&#8217;s breaking it to the left<br \/>\nso much it won&#8217;t be caught by the wind. And then when it battles the wind&#8230;<br \/>\nIt stops. Yay, it stopped! I could make a similar shot<br \/>\nif I wanted to. But not in a game. I&#8217;ll get too caught up in the fear<br \/>\nof the ball not coming back, or not curving&#8230; I&#8217;d stand frozen. What do you think, Igaiga? Nice hit, Tonbo. Tell me, Tonbo.  Aren&#8217;t you at all afraid of<br \/>\nmaking a hit like that one just now? Why would I be? What if it hadn&#8217;t broken to the left? It would&#8217;ve<br \/>\nplopped straight into the water. Then I&#8217;d just have to hit again, right? Something about the way she plays<br \/>\ngrated on me. Like a bone scratching against<br \/>\nthe inside of my throat. Shoot! What in the world is that?! Igaiga! Down here! Is that a pillar of rain? We&#8217;ll be fine down here. Did you forget there&#8217;s no roof? I promise it&#8217;s fine! Come sit. It&#8217;s here. Lean against the wall. You mean like this? Huh? Huh? Oh. The wind is<br \/>\nmaking the rain fall sideways? Yep. Told you we&#8217;d be fine down here. Yeah. We&#8217;re just gonna have to wait it out. Let&#8217;s play tic-tac-toe. Tic-tac-toe? Igaiga, you start. Oh&#8230; Okay. It&#8217;s a draw. Let&#8217;s go again. Then I&#8217;d just have to hit again, right? It&#8217;s my turn to start this time. She&#8217;s never<br \/>\nfelt pressured while playing golf. If she makes a mistake or even if the ball falls into the ocean,  she&#8217;ll just shrug her shoulders. She can just try again. -Igaiga, it&#8217;s your turn.<br \/>\n-Right. Yes, just like right now, playing tic-tac-toe&#8230; Even if she gears up to start the game, she&#8217;s not afraid of failing or losing. At her age, once she starts comparing<br \/>\nand assessing who&#8217;s better&#8230; That&#8217;s when the desire to win<br \/>\nand the fear of losing emerge. Tonbo never<br \/>\nthought of golf as a competition. Oh, I lost. Let&#8217;s go again! This is what was nagging me about her. Obviously, no one on this island<br \/>\nwants to compete,  and they&#8217;re no match to her. This island healed Tonbo<br \/>\nwhen she came here with a broken heart. But&#8230; You go first, Igaiga. If she keeps playing golf,<br \/>\nand if she enters a competition one day&#8230; Igaiga?  Or if she doesn&#8217;t, and her incredible talent goes to waste&#8230; I can&#8217;t let that happen.<br \/>\nShe has to compete. That is&#8230; I want to enter her into one. I&#8217;ll be here. I&#8217;ll stay on this island forever! I&#8217;ll never go anywhere else! Oh. Look, the rain&#8217;s already gone. It looks like a huge bridge. What if it was a real one? Wouldn&#8217;t you want to<br \/>\ncross it to the other side? Not in the slightest. Let&#8217;s play golf again! Tonbo. What you&#8217;re playing isn&#8217;t golf. What you&#8217;re playing isn&#8217;t golf. Igaiga, you know&#8211; Your way of playing is<br \/>\nlacking something important! It isn&#8217;t real golf. What the&#8211; Bunpei?! Next time on Tonbo! This isn&#8217;t real golf! I hate you, Igaiga! Bunpei, wait! I&#8217;m sorry! Come back!! Tonbo.  What you&#8217;re playing isn&#8217;t golf. It&#8230; Isn&#8217;t golf? Golf is always a game of pressure&#8230; You&#8217;re constantly torn between wanting to make par,<br \/>\nget closer, or hit it far, and dreading hitting out of bounds, three-putting, or duffing the ball. Every swing navigates between the<br \/>\n\u301dwants\u301e and the \u301ddon&#8217;t wants.\u301e Essentially, it boils down to what you gain from success<br \/>\nversus what you lose from failure. the greater the stakes, the stiffer you become with tension. That&#8217;s the pressure of golf. Tonbo. If you have nothing to win<br \/>\nand nothing to lose, you will never feel any pressure. Right now, that&#8217;s the way you play. \u301dI&#8217;d just have to hit again.\u301e That&#8217;s not golf. TONBO! I want Tonbo to experience<br \/>\nwhat the pressure of golf feels like. She needs to know what it&#8217;s like. But how? Grandpa Gon. It&#8217;s my family&#8217;s grave. My son and his wife are lying here. Tonbo&#8217;s mother and father&#8230; Her family was against it at first. Letting her rest here, I mean. They&#8217;re the ones who<br \/>\ntrampled all over Tonbo&#8217;s heart. I gave them an earful<br \/>\nand brought her here. Yesterday&#8217;s storm swept away<br \/>\nall the flowers from the nearby graves. But there are still flowers at this one. Tonbo probably came here<br \/>\non her way to school. She picks wildflowers for them<br \/>\nevery morning. I think this is<br \/>\nthe happiest grave on this entire island. How come the stone on that one<br \/>\nis lying down? When graves are emptied,<br \/>\nthe stones are knocked over. It&#8217;s empty? Their families left the island<br \/>\nand couldn&#8217;t care for the grave anymore, so they moved the bones off the island. I know there&#8217;s no helping<br \/>\npeople leaving the island, but&#8230; It&#8217;s a little sad that<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re taking the old souls with them. What will you do<br \/>\nif Tonbo leaves the island? Tonbo will graduate<br \/>\nfrom middle school in spring. But she refuses to go to high school<br \/>\nso she can stay on the island. Do you want her to stay? I don&#8217;t know. But I can&#8217;t imagine what life would be like without her around. What&#8217;s with that sour face? I know you said all that stuff yesterday but I don&#8217;t get it. I mean, like, when you say it that way&#8230; I know you&#8217;re good at golf, but&#8230; I forget she&#8217;s just a kid&#8230;<br \/>\nPouting like this. You don&#8217;t suck. You&#8217;re an amazing golfer. That&#8217;s not it. How do I make myself completely clear? Hmm&#8230; The way you play golf is&#8230; Well&#8230; I love it. I don&#8217;t want her. Well, neither do we! It doesn&#8217;t matter,<br \/>\nsomeone has to take her! I want to see more of it. I wish<br \/>\nI could spend all day watching you play. But Golf is a game that<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t be played without pressure. Game&#8230;? It&#8217;s a competition. The excitement of it is<br \/>\nborn out of that pressure. That is true golf. And I want you to experience that. I hate complicated stuff like that. Tonbo. If that ball ends up in the ocean,<br \/>\nGrandpa Gon dies. What? Imagine it&#8217;s true. That is pressure. Then I won&#8217;t play. I don&#8217;t want to lose Grandpa. It&#8217;s just an example. You can play. Okay, then I&#8217;ll shoot. Tonbo. Yes? What if I told you to<br \/>\nwalk to the other end without stepping outside this mowed strip? That&#8217;s easy. I can even run. What if there was a slope, as wide as the lines on the green,<br \/>\nfrom here to the opposite cliff? Would you still insist on running? Every single step would be scary, right? Because You have too much to lose if you fail. What used to be easy<br \/>\nsuddenly becomes a huge challenge. That is pressure. Hey! Wh-What&#8230; Tonbo&#8230;? Tonbo! Hey! I couldn&#8217;t properly face my son. I can&#8217;t turn my back on Tonbo.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t run. If I do I can never turn back. Tonbo! I&#8217;ve heard that  falling into water from really high up<br \/>\nis like hitting concrete. That hurt! I should have<br \/>\nstretched out my toes&#8230; I can run to the other side  and I can jump in too to get across! Igaiga? Igaiga? Tonbo! You okay?! Did he jump in&#8230; to save me? Hang on! He can&#8217;t swim&#8230; Why would you jump in? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d like to know. Because&#8230; You were asking<br \/>\nall kinds of hard questions&#8230; What&#8217;s so funny about that?! I tried to lecture her about pressure,<br \/>\npuffing myself up, but her values<br \/>\noutshine mine at every turn. Maybe things are fine like this. Huh? If she continues playing golf, pressure will inevitably<br \/>\nmake its presence felt sooner or later. It&#8217;s just a matter of time. You&#8217;re weird. Perhaps it&#8217;s best to let her step into<br \/>\nthe broader world of golf just as she is now. Whoa. Tonbo, how on Earth can you control if the balls fly high or low? Even with a standard stance, you&#8217;re still able to<br \/>\nplay around with the ball&#8217;s height. Hmmm&#8230; Show me your index finger. Huh? &#8230; Why? Normally I&#8217;d hold it like this&#8230; But if I want to hit a low ball&#8230; I hold it like this. That&#8217;s tight. And if I want to shoot a high ball&#8230; -It&#8217;s like this.<br \/>\n-Oh, much looser. I do something like that. Wait, that&#8217;s it? Why does grip strength make a difference? No clue. Tonbo, the way she is&#8230; The way she plays golf&#8230; Will step out into the world. It&#8217;s going to be&#8230;<br \/>\nnothing short of captivating. Hey, Tonbo. Hm? Once summer break starts,<br \/>\nwhy don&#8217;t we try out a real golf course? What do you mean, a real course? I mean a proper course with 18 holes. With 72 pars. There&#8217;s nowhere like that on the island. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve got to go to Kagoshima. No thanks. I don&#8217;t want to. That got it pretty close. Hitting it while<br \/>\nfacing the direction of the pin. See? Maybe&#8230; If I hold the club with both hands&#8230; I might be onto something. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m<br \/>\nlooking at the pin when I hit. I just have to keep my eyes on it&#8230; And then&#8230; Aw, I almost got it. But it did work to look at the pin,<br \/>\nthe ball got close. I&#8217;ll try again! I really&#8230; need to somehow bring her honest sensibility beyond the island. Igaiga? I&#8217;ll be&#8230; Right back. You just&#8230; keep on practicing that. Geez&#8230; My stomach suddenly started acting up. What&#8217;s this? Huh? Wh-what happened?! It itches! It itches like crazy. How can something be so itchy!? You sat on that toilet?<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t you see the wall&#8217;s broken? More and more of them just<br \/>\nkept coming out of nowhere. Nobody on the whole island<br \/>\nwould ever use that bathroom. Those are black flies. Most people here call them buffalo gnats. I&#8230; see&#8230; People born here are immune to them, but you wouldn&#8217;t be the first outsider to<br \/>\nend up getting a fever from their bite. There you go. Thank you. It&#8217;s so itchy though&#8211; -Don&#8217;t scratch it.<br \/>\n-Huh? If you scratch it, bacteria get in. Might end up with a scar, too. Got it? Y-yes ma&#8217;am. I can&#8217;t resist! He only had one bite on his hand, but his butt is covered in them. His butt&#8217;s all lumpy with them! It&#8217;s lumpy? Show me! Wha&#8211;? I&#8217;m fine! I can&#8217;t show you that! -Take your pants off! It needs ointment.<br \/>\n-Applied by whom?! Me, of course! Absolutely not! Over my dead body! Pffh&#8230; They kicked me outside. You want to take her away from here? I do. The kind of talent she has is rare. It&#8217;d go to waste if she stays here. I wonder if she&#8217;ll agree to go. Hm? She even skipped the school trip. School trip? It was supposed to be a joint outing with<br \/>\nmiddle schoolers from the other islands. There was also a three-day<br \/>\ncareer experience trip to Kagoshima that she didn&#8217;t attend either. It&#8217;s that bad? Alright, that&#8217;s it. I owe you one, Bunpei. And here I came running,<br \/>\nexcited that Yoko called for me&#8230; Didn&#8217;t expect to be<br \/>\nrubbing ointment on your behind&#8230; Who&#8217;s that? She&#8217;s cute. She&#8217;s my niece. She&#8217;s also really fond of golf. LAST DAY OF THE SEMESTER Incredible. I didn&#8217;t know Tonbo<br \/>\ndid that well in school. The number of students and teachers in the island&#8217;s schools is<br \/>\nalmost the same, you know. Oh, right. She&#8217;s getting one-on-one classes. The beginning of the summer holiday means she only has<br \/>\nabout 8 months left of middle school. And that&#8217;s how long I have<br \/>\nto make her change her mind&#8230; Man, with the wedge, all I ever do is chunk it. Tonbo, teach me how to do this. I&#8217;m not sure what there is to teach. You just move the club left and right like you&#8217;re sweeping the floor. I can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re rubbing my face<br \/>\nin the fact that I can&#8217;t do it. Rubbing it in your face? Tonbo! Since when<br \/>\ndid you get so coldhearted? Uh&#8230; Then&#8230; I figured out a fun way to<br \/>\nhit it the other day, want to try it? What do you mean, fun? Stand like this, and face<br \/>\nwherever you want to shoot the ball. Come on, I can&#8217;t do that. No way I&#8217;ll ever<br \/>\nhit anything with just one hand. You&#8217;re going to use both hands to do it! It&#8217;s a surefire way to get the ball close! Standing like this feels really weird&#8230; I didn&#8217;t chunk it! Told you! It works! How&#8217;d you know? Why? No clue! Huh? No clue, huh? Chunking happens because you&#8217;re<br \/>\ncoming down on the ball from above. But if you hit it from the side,<br \/>\nlike you do with a putter, you won&#8217;t have<br \/>\nthe leading edge digging in. And turning your body to face your goal means both eyes are<br \/>\nat the same distance from it. With a normal stance, the left eye is closer to the goal. Of course evening out the distance<br \/>\nmakes it easier to reach. Tonbo didn&#8217;t use theory or logic<br \/>\nto figure it out. She learned intuitively. Oh! Igaiga! Come join us! Sure. It&#8217;s so hot out here though.  I just want to<br \/>\nrecharge with a bite of unagi. You like unagi, Igaiga? You bet! It&#8217;s my favorite! Let&#8217;s go then! Where to? Hey guys! Whoa. Check this out. You got your hands on a big one! Right? Can you believe they get this big? He put up a fight, but I got him.<br \/>\nTokara is amazing. I&#8217;ll go to the center, cut and trim it,<br \/>\nand make kabayaki out of it. You&#8217;re going to eat that? Yep! There&#8217;s plenty for all of us,<br \/>\nso round everyone up, will you? I&#8217;ll be waiting for you! I mean, I&#8217;ll let people know, but&#8230; Is he right in the head? Alright, let&#8217;s dig in!! How is it? I knew it! It&#8217;s gross! You knew it? Huh? Tonbo! You little brat! You ate a giant eel? Director&#8230; Giant mottled eel can<br \/>\ngrow up to about 6.6 feet and weigh up to about 44 pounds. They&#8217;re an entirely different species<br \/>\nfrom the Japanese eel. Oh.. I had no idea. If it were edible, the islanders would<br \/>\nhave fished it to extinction by now. Guess that makes sense. Anyways, I&#8217;m off. Giant eels&#8230;<br \/>\nBlackflies&#8230; And starry skies. Flying fish&#8230; Sunsets&#8230; Goats&#8230;<br \/>\nWalls of rain and Ryukyu Robins. This island has been<br \/>\nfull of nothing but surprises. Though the biggest surprise of all is that an island like this<br \/>\nhas a golf course and that the little girl<br \/>\nwho plays on that course plays golf in such a way that I never imagined possible. This island harbors<br \/>\nsomething extraordinary. I have to bring her out in the world. And I suppose doing so&#8230;<br \/>\nRequires the extraordinary too. I need to change my way of thinking. Though I&#8217;m not sure how. My way of thinking&#8230;.<br \/>\nMy way of playing golf&#8230; My&#8230; Oh, you look kind of cool! It looks totally different from<br \/>\nwhen everyone else does it! You&#8217;re amazing, Igaiga! I&#8217;ve never seen someone so good before! That&#8217;s it! Igaiga? Igaiga! Igaiga! Igaiga! Igaiga! Where are you going? Tonbo? Igaiga&#8230; Tonbo&#8230; If you won&#8217;t leave Hino Island&#8230; Then I&#8217;ll have to go instead. Next time on Tonbo! The Okinawan Rival! Igaiga&#8230; Just left without saying anything&#8230; When I see him again,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll make him eat great eel sashimi!! Why am I getting chills?! Am I seasick? Goodbye, Hino Island. I mean, at least<br \/>\nuntil the day after tomorrow. If it&#8217;s going to be that hard to<br \/>\nget Tonbo to leave the island, then I&#8217;ll have to<br \/>\nbring the motivation to her. Though I am not entirely sure what exactly will<br \/>\nbe enough to motivate her to go. Mr. Igaiga? Yoko! Why are you here? For work. I have a meeting<br \/>\nat the University Hospital about a traveling clinic on Tokara. What about you? Well, I got my pay,<br \/>\nso I figured I&#8217;d get myself a ride. A ride? I want a motorcycle<br \/>\nso I can get around the island on my own. If you&#8217;re interested, I&#8217;d be glad to<br \/>\nshow you where I bought mine. That would be great! I&#8217;ll be back soon, Tonbo. TONBO! We&#8217;re finally here. From the furthest island,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s over a ten-hour journey here. Summer nights are bright, but if Tonbo leaves the island next spring,<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll be dark at this time To her, Kagoshima&#8217;s night will then<br \/>\nlook like a sea of shimmering lights. Tonbo has only left Hino Island once<br \/>\nsince she first arrived. But she did leave it before? To treat a cavity. A cavity? After that, she&#8217;s been<br \/>\nbrushing her teeth meticulously. She doesn&#8217;t want to<br \/>\nhave to go into the city again. She&#8217;s a strong-willed child. But I can&#8217;t let her keep her talent<br \/>\nhidden away on a small island. Tonbo has a much bigger world<br \/>\nwaiting for her in golf. When I mentioned Yoko referred me,<br \/>\nthe shop owner quickly dropped the price. Men are foolish creatures, huh? They&#8217;re probably<br \/>\npart of a school&#8217;s golf club\u2026 If she plays with someone her age,<br \/>\nmaybeTonbo will develop the desire to win,<br \/>\nand a dislike of losing. That might be the push she needs. Though at their level, even if these kids manage to nudge her,<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll be no match for her skills. What Tonbo needs is<br \/>\nsomeone playing at a much higher level. She&#8217;s traveling everywhere<br \/>\nto help the island. I&#8217;ve got to keep searching too.<br \/>\nI need to find that motivator. Does it look weird? I only rarely get a chance<br \/>\nto go to a hairdresser, so\u2026 No, it looks great on you! Thank you. You just look so different<br \/>\nfrom when I saw you this afternoon. This afternoon? In front of the gynecologist. You must be tired<br \/>\nfrom visiting all the clinics here. Ah\u2026 Uh\u2026 Yeah. You want to invite a golfer Tonbo&#8217;s age<br \/>\nto play with her? I thought it was a great idea, but I haven&#8217;t been able to find anyone. No one at all? It can&#8217;t be someone<br \/>\nshe&#8217;d easily beat by mistake. It needs to be<br \/>\nsomeone playing at national junior-level\u2026 National junior\u2026? I know no one like that, though\u2026 Do you remember my niece? I do. I remember her. Supposedly she is a pretty good golfer. Right, but she&#8217;s what, five or six, right? She&#8217;s a senior in middle school now.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the same age as Tonbo. Huh? They&#8217;re the same age? I&#8217;m not sure about the details,<br \/>\nbut I think she won something<br \/>\ncalled the Kyushu Junior Championship. She won the Kyushu Junior?! Uh\u2026 yeah\u2026 W-wait, what\u2026? Can you somehow make your niece<br \/>\nspend the summer on Hino Island? Huh? Welcome back, Igaiga! Oh wow, you bought a motorbike? Yeah. You went to Kagoshima? Welcome home. Welcome back, Igaiga! Welcome home! Good having you back! Guess I&#8217;m \u301dhome,\u301e, huh. I&#8217;ve been on my own all this time ever since my family left me. Hi Yoko! I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re back. Ah\u2026 Thanks. Let me carry your bags for you! No, it&#8217;s fine, don&#8217;t worry! Really, I insist! Please let me do it! Welcome back! It&#8217;s a simple greeting but it means so much to hear. I&#8217;m home. I have come to belong on this island. They let me in. Where&#8217;s Tonbo? She&#8217;s not back yet. There you are. I brought a souvenir for you. It&#8217;s a lot of breads. A croquette, pizza-bread, one with cream&#8211; Thank you. That hurt! What&#8217;d she do that for? You left the island<br \/>\nwithout saying anything to her, right? Huh? I mean, yeah\u2026 It caused quite a ruckus. Igaiga\u2026 He left\u2026 He&#8217;s never coming back\u2026 Igaiga\u2026 He just left\u2026 Everyone tried to reassure her,<br \/>\nbut she wouldn&#8217;t stop crying. We had to take her to the center<br \/>\nto see that your things were all there before she finally<br \/>\nbelieved that you&#8217;d come back. It was like when she lost her parents. She&#8217;s scared of peopl she loves<br \/>\nsuddenly disappearing from her life. People she loves\u2026 It might be that Tonbo is\u2026 Is what? Nevermind. Don&#8217;t worry about it. Tonbo. I&#8217;m home. Are you going to eat it all? You gave it all to me, didn&#8217;t you?! I actually didn&#8217;t. That chocolate horn is mine&#8211;! Come on\u2026 It&#8217;s delicious! I&#8217;m sorry.<br \/>\nI should&#8217;ve told you I was going. Grandpa Gon! He&#8217;s definitely mad at me<br \/>\nfor making his granddaughter cry. Looks like Tonbo is<br \/>\nstarting to see you as a father figure\u2026 I wonder if I&#8217;ll ever<br \/>\nbe able to shoot as high as you. Tonbo, which eye do you<br \/>\nusually use to look at the ball? Which eye? Don&#8217;t you use both of them? Try using only the left. Only the left? You can keep both eyes open. You just have to focus on using the left. Guess I&#8217;ll give it a try. Tonbo tends to turn her chin<br \/>\ntoward where the ball will fly. This makes her<br \/>\nlose the wall on her left jaw. If her left cheek opens up, her left shoulder and lower body<br \/>\nwill loosen too. Then, her left foot can&#8217;t anchor properly on the ground, which slows down the acceleration of the clubhead. But if she consciously tries to<br \/>\nwatch the ball with her left eye, her chin won&#8217;t drift\u2026 and the wall on her left side will form! Oh! It went so far! Can&#8217;t believe she did it on the first try\u2026 Mr. Igaiga. My niece will come to the island. Huh? She said<br \/>\nshe wants to try the golf course here. When is she coming? She&#8217;ll arrive on the ferry tomorrow. Her name is Tsubura, right? I&#8217;m a little nervous to meet her. There&#8217;s never been<br \/>\nanyone else my age here. Tsubura is<br \/>\njust as excited to meet you, Tonbo. This kid is<br \/>\na golf champion from outside the island\u2026 I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll<br \/>\ngive Tonbo the push she needs. Huh\u2026? I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anyone else coming. Was she not on it? Do you think she missed it? She told me she was on this one, though\u2026 No way. She&#8217;s here\u2026 Tsubura! She is Tsubura? This is your niece? Tsubura! Wake up! You must be Tonbo, right?! My aunt said you&#8217;re a golfer!<br \/>\nI love playing golf too! Why were you sleeping here? Everyone was snoring so loud. I tried to find somewhere quiet to sleep and found this truck,<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s surprisingly comfortable. You&#8217;re wild&#8230; No, I&#8217;m not&#8211; I left my caddy bag on the ferry! My golf clubs are worth more than my life! I&#8217;ll call them<br \/>\nand have them set it aside for you. Oh, okay. She&#8217;s easy to calm down, huh? They got my bag and my clothes too\u2026 You can borrow some of mine. No way my butt fits in your panties. Tsubura, you&#8217;re funny! I get that a lot. The sea here has a completely different<br \/>\nshade of blue than in Okinawa! Okinawa&#8230; Both Tsubura and I<br \/>\ncome from a small town in Okinawa. It takes around 40 minutes by car<br \/>\nto get to the nearest golf course. That&#8217;s why she initially learned<br \/>\nhow to play golf on public sports fields or the beach near her house. Now, she has a coach and a proper course. You&#8217;re an long knocker, Tonbo! You&#8217;re not half bad yourself either! I was hoping she would<br \/>\ninspire Tonbo a bit, but\u2026 They are just two of a kind! Alright! Now we have<br \/>\nsome energy charged up, let&#8217;s go! Go where? You have a golf course here, don&#8217;t you? This course is insane! It&#8217;s incredible! Let&#8217;s play, shall we? Why do you have two golf clubs? These are the only ones I got, actually. For real? For real-real. I&#8217;ll go first. Hold on, where are you aiming for?<br \/>\nThe fairway is not&#8211; Fly like the wind! Wait, hold on\u2026. Did you shoot it that way on purpose? I did. Your turn, Tsubura. What iron is this? Three? The head is tiny! And the face is even tinier! The shaft is so stiff! She&#8217;s lively, huh? Give it a go! Got a tee? Nope! Here goes nothing. Alright. Oh, she looks cool already! She clearly has a routine\u2026 Let&#8217;s see what it looks like<br \/>\nwhen a Kyushu Junior Champion plays\u2026 A super compact top\u2026 I duffed it\u2026 This club is too hard for me to use. I&#8217;ve only ever used a 6-iron or higher. Do you want to<br \/>\nborrow a different one, then? There&#8217;s a lot of extra clubs<br \/>\nin that shed over there. I&#8217;ll take this one. I think this combination is<br \/>\nthe one closest to my own set. Oh, that&#8217;s Bunpei&#8217;s. Huh? You&#8217;re not doing a tee shot? I already did.<br \/>\nThe next shot is the approach shot. Well, don&#8217;t you want to redo it? That&#8217;s not how you play real golf! The ball will float and it&#8217;s a headwind\u2026 Off the Deck? When I duffed it just now,<br \/>\nthe ground was super hard. It&#8217;s much harder than on Okinawan courses. Even a low ball is easy to get rolling\u2026 So if I don&#8217;t need to shoot a high ball\u2026 Her right heel is lifted?<br \/>\nNo&#8230; It&#8217;s on purpose. She&#8217;s lifting the club as high as before. A three-quarter shot\u2026 With a driver. Yippee! Yeah. You only made a tiny swing,<br \/>\nbut it still went so fast! I&#8217;ll be the first national champion<br \/>\nto use three-quarter shots only. -Champion?<br \/>\n-Yeah. My coach told me that<br \/>\nif I nail my three-quarter shot, no one in Japan will be able to beat me. And then when I go for world champion,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s when I&#8217;ll perfect a full shot. World champion\u2026 They&#8217;re the same age,<br \/>\nbut she aims for the world. Oh, I almost had it. I can&#8217;t believe<br \/>\nshe shot that far with that tiny club. Why were you<br \/>\nlifting your right heel before? It would&#8217;ve been too embarrassing<br \/>\nto duff it a second time. Even if it&#8217;s not perfect,<br \/>\nI had to come over the top with the club. If she keeps her right heel<br \/>\nlifted during the takeaway, it keeps the right side high<br \/>\nand shifts the weight to the left,  ensuring the club comes over the top\u3001 This is a reliable method<br \/>\nwhen you want to avoid hitting it fat. Is it an uphill lie. You got about 110 yards left to go. Thank you. Then\u2026 An 8-iron. Normally, this would be<br \/>\na pitching situation\u2026 but she chose a club two sizes too big. Using a bigger club<br \/>\nand making a smaller swing is  a good first step<br \/>\nfor handling uphill lies. She&#8217;s keeping the club&#8217;s lie angle<br \/>\nthe same as if it was on flat ground\u2026 and then, hands up. It&#8217;s the same swing<br \/>\nshe used on flat ground! This way, the ball won&#8217;t twist. How did you know to do that? It was the same swing as with the driver,<br \/>\nbut it went perfectly straight! You&#8217;re amazing! Eh? A swing is a swing<br \/>\nno matter what club you&#8217;re using\u2026 No way!<br \/>\nI change my swings every time I hit! No way! Maybe\u2026 These two make a perfect pair. Okay, time for some thin cuts. Yippeee! That was\u2026 incredible, Tonbo. But this is a bump-and-run situation.<br \/>\nWhy would you lift it? I thought it would be fun<br \/>\n&#8216;cause, with the headwind, if I lift it,<br \/>\nthe spin would make it stop quickly. Like, whoosh, bam, right? That makes no sense. Huh? You need to go with<br \/>\na bumb-and-run to keep par. That&#8217;s the best shot for sure! Keep a par\u2026? I don&#8217;t get it, but I&#8217;ll go again. I&#8217;ll make it run this time then. A thick cut\u2026 There you go. You&#8217;re open<br \/>\nand closing with the same club\u2026  I could never do that<br \/>\nwithout changing clubs&#8230; But you can&#8217;t \u301djust shoot again\u301e<br \/>\nwhen playing golf. That&#8217;s not real golf. This is good. This is really good. It&#8217;s four o&#8217;clock\u2026 No, three. It&#8217;s not even one yet, though. I&#8217;m reading the lines. Picture cup as a clock face, with the nearest rim as 6 o&#8217;clock<br \/>\nand the farthest as 12 o&#8217;clock. This is a big curving line,<br \/>\nand the cup&#8217;s entrance is at 3 o&#8217;clock\u2026 Seeing it like this<br \/>\nhelps you picture the line better. I never thought like that while playing\u2026 Yes, that&#8217;s good! Dangit, I lost the par! I was sure it&#8217;d go in\u2026<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s okay. Sorry. \u301dOkay\u301e isn&#8217;t good enough for a pro. A pro\u2026? &#8220;I&#8217;d just have to hit again.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u3000That&#8217;s not golf. &#8220;Okay&#8221; isn&#8217;t good enough for a pro. Hey Igaiga, let&#8217;s play a word game! That&#8217;s sudden. I&#8217;ll go first. Long three! E? Everest. T\u2026 Toothpick! K? Kingdom! M? Mmm\u2026 Mmmnext time on Tonbo!<br \/>\nThe Great Monotony! Ha-ha!<br \/>\nThat was the wrong letter, you lose. Oh mannn\u2026 Wow! What an amazing hole! There&#8217;s a slight headwind from the left. Yeah. 175 yards&#8230; With this wind, you won&#8217;t be<br \/>\nable to use the 3-iron to hit. Don&#8217;t you want to use any<br \/>\nof these clubs instead? It&#8217;s fine. It is? Are you aiming for the<br \/>\npin from this far away? No, Tonbo&#8217;s left collarbone<br \/>\npoints towards the right end of the cap. Not above, but directly at<br \/>\nthe third hole&#8217;s teeing area. She covered it. She missed! She didn&#8217;t miss.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a low break to the left. Ah, guess I made it too big&#8230; I thought for sure you shanked it. How did you hit it so low? I guess it was kind of like a tofu cut? Tofu?? Think of the ball as a block of tofu.<br \/>\nAnd then this bit is a knife. When you want to hit a really low<br \/>\nshot, just aim the knife a bit below the center of the ball and<br \/>\nleave about half of it uncut. I have no clue what you&#8217;re saying, but it&#8217;s kinda amazing?<br \/>\nIt sounds kinda hard? But super cool? That&#8217;s definitely a two. A two? It&#8217;s the angle at which<br \/>\nthe grass flows sideways. If there&#8217;s no wind,<br \/>\nit will fall straight down. If it flows diagonally downwards at<br \/>\nabout 30 degrees, then that&#8217;s a 1. About 60 degrees would be a 2. Perfectly horizontal is a 3. Guess I&#8217;ll&#8230; go for the 5-wood. With a level 2 headwind on a 175<br \/>\nyard hole&#8230; I&#8217;m using the 5-wood. Aren&#8217;t you going for a low shot? I am not. I won&#8217;t fight the wind like you do.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll ask for its help instead. I&#8217;ll take a stance slightly to<br \/>\nthe left and swing normally. Normally&#8230;? 175 yards is the distance<br \/>\nto the center of the green. The pin position is on the front<br \/>\nleft, so it&#8217;s actually about 165. My pin is at 175. Your pin? My coach taught me to do it. I divide the green into four<br \/>\nparts centered around the pin, then visualize my pin at the<br \/>\ncenter of the largest section. When I&#8217;m using anything bigger than<br \/>\na 7 iron, I aim towards that pin. It went towards the pin! I calculated it so the wind<br \/>\nwould take it to my pin. It duffed it a little&#8230; It drifted further than I expected. She sticks to a three-quarter<br \/>\nswing&#8230; The only thing she changes is the club number.<br \/>\nRelying on the wind, she keeps her swing basic, allowing the club<br \/>\nto do all the work. (I&#8217;m ready) Let&#8217;s go. A naive, repetitive way of playing golf&#8230;<br \/>\nA great monotony. Golf is a game of uncertainty. Golfers<br \/>\nare constantly forced to make choices. The more options you have,<br \/>\nthe more uncertain you become. Golf skill isn&#8217;t just about technique;<br \/>\nthe mindset makes the largest difference. Reducing the options makes golf simple. The way Tsubura blindly trusts what she<br \/>\nis taught may be her greatest strength. Previously, she gripped the club usual<br \/>\nway, crossing her left hand diagonally. But holding it vertically creates a<br \/>\nstraight line from her elbow to the club, removing any angle between her<br \/>\nforearm and the shaft. This way she can move everything from the<br \/>\nelbow down on a single plane. The club head aligns<br \/>\nperfectly with her body movements, allowing it to<br \/>\nsweep low like a putter. Here it comes, here it comes! Soo close! But it&#8217;s a nice par! Thanks! It&#8217;s not a particularly<br \/>\ndifficult approach. But she&#8217;s fine-tuning her<br \/>\ntechnique to minimize mistakes. The next part isn&#8217;t nearly as hard. She planned from the beginning to<br \/>\navoid any more complex approaches. Of course. She&#8217;s already<br \/>\na competitive golfer&#8230; Let me take this out. Thank-huh? Igaiga, you&#8217;re scaring Tsubura. Ah, no.. Don&#8217;t worry, Tsubura. He does that a lot. Ah&#8230; Okay, it&#8217;s my turn! Alrighty. I finished two holes with one over. I&#8217;m right behind you, Tonbo. She&#8217;s keeping track of the other players&#8217;<br \/>\nscore&#8230; It means she cares about winning. Tonbo hasn&#8217;t finished her hole-out.<br \/>\nHow do you know already? That bunker is the last place you<br \/>\nwanna be in these circumstances. She can&#8217;t get it close to<br \/>\nthe hole from down there. She&#8217;s got it figured out. The green slopes downward from<br \/>\nthe bunker to the nearby pin. And the wind is blowing<br \/>\nstraight from the bunker to the pin, pushing the ball<br \/>\nand reducing its spin. It&#8217;s a parade of unfavorable<br \/>\nconditions for her. But&#8230; Tonbo can do bunker shots with a<br \/>\n3-iron, and now she has a wedge. Her grip is so narrow&#8230; The face is completely open&#8230;<br \/>\nNo matter how hard she swings,<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll likely only travel ten yards. She took a super thin layer of sand.. I&#8217;ve never heard a bunker<br \/>\nshot sound like this before. Perfect! It&#8217;s a strong backspin&#8230;<br \/>\nRight. Her left knee. She pushed her left knee opposite<br \/>\nto where the ball was headed. The clubhead sped up,<br \/>\nall resulting in a powerful backspin. That has to be it. I overdid it a bit. This is crazy. Will she get par? I would&#8217;ve focused<br \/>\nsolely on getting out of the bunker and simplifying<br \/>\nthe approach shot. Competitive golfers always think ahead. But Tonbo plays for fun.<br \/>\nIf she fails, she&#8217;ll just try again.. She is just enjoying<br \/>\nwalking the tightrope&#8230; Yippee! N&#8230; Nice par&#8230; First the lowest ball ever, now this? Fly like the wind! I shot it pretty far, huh? I seriously can&#8217;t figure<br \/>\nout what her plan is. This is the last hole on this course. You&#8217;re ahead by one stroke. But I&#8217;mma catch up for sure. Tsubura wants to win. She fears losing. Her wants and not wants are clear.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a competition. It&#8217;s a stark contrast. You got this Tsubura! Give it your all! You&#8217;re distracting me. Even girls can get a green in regulation. Will her swing reflect her desire to win? As usual, it&#8217;s a three-quarter&#8230; She released it all the way<br \/>\nto a full follow through. Oh! That one&#8217;s powerful! Come on! Keep going! Yesss! Tonbo, I&#8217;ll catch up to you! It really is a great monotony. She keeps the core of her swing unchanged. But she adjusts her grip<br \/>\nand the way the head snaps up&#8230;<br \/>\nshe tweaks the finer details. And she&#8217;s refined it to<br \/>\na surprising degree&#8230; Tsubura&#8217;s ball went so far&#8230; I&#8230; won&#8217;t lose to her. She wants to win?? Watch me. I&#8217;ll hit mine just as high! If I&#8217;d hit the ball,<br \/>\nit would&#8217;ve flown really far you know&#8230; That&#8217;s one stroke, so you&#8217;re at three now. Okay, I got it. A one-legged hit?! I hit it! Flyy!! What on Earth is she doing?! The distance is no problem. But.. Let&#8217;s see what she picks. Other golfers her age would go for a wood<br \/>\nand aim for a green in regulation&#8230; She picked a 9-iron?<br \/>\nThis is what makes her special. Why aren&#8217;t you going for<br \/>\na green in regulation? Because of the bunker.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m scared of my ball landing in it. My coach says that if<br \/>\na shot makes my heart race, it&#8217;s a sign that<br \/>\nI shouldn&#8217;t make it. If I land in the left<br \/>\nbunker, I can&#8217;t get a birdie. But a layup still<br \/>\ngives me the chance. Creating that chance is<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s most important. It went to the other hole?! Why did you aim for the first hole?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so far from the pin! I wanted to hit my third<br \/>\nbefore your fourth. You&#8217;re too good at approach shots. If you get close first,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll need a birdie just to catch up since I&#8217;m<br \/>\nalready one stroke behind. She calculated that far? That&#8217;s so much pressure on my third shot. In golf, hitting the ball<br \/>\nlater increases the pressure. If you can make this<br \/>\nshot, you could win, even if your opponent<br \/>\ngoes first and misses. And if your opponent gets it in the<br \/>\nhole, you need to do the same. But if you hit first, Even if you miss, there is still a<br \/>\nchance that your opponent will miss too. Other factors besides your play determine<br \/>\nthe outcome, so the pressure is lighter. 9 o&#8217;clock to 3 o&#8217;clock, It&#8217;s coming from the left. You got about 80 yards left. Thank you. The pin is at the very back of the green. The slope along that bunker means you&#8217;d<br \/>\nusually aim to the right of the pin. Where will she place her pin? Considering how tough<br \/>\nTonbo&#8217;s next approach is, she probably thinks she doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nneed to force a birdie. Will she aim two steps to the right of<br \/>\nthe pin, or play it safe and go for four? Tsubura, you&#8217;re amazing! Tonbo&#8217;s way of playing<br \/>\nis far too unpredictable. She might land a close approach shot. So, I&#8217;ll get there first! Tsubura clearly knew that going<br \/>\nfirst meant she could pressure Tonbo. Okay, my turn! This is such a difficult approach shot. The slope around the bunker<br \/>\nis right up to the pin. If you want to stop the ball,<br \/>\nyou have to land it just past the slope. So, it&#8217;s a lob shot. But the higher you hit it,<br \/>\nthe more the wind will cause backspin. The best move is to avoid the<br \/>\nslope, land right of the pin,<br \/>\nand aim for a long par putt. If she fades the ball to the right<br \/>\nof the pin, it will roll&#8230; She&#8217;s standing to the right&#8230;<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s gonna roll it. It&#8217;s a putting battle now. She opened the face! What are<br \/>\nyou gonna do this time, Tonbo?! Maybe she&#8217;s going for a<br \/>\nlow bounce and high spin? A what? The third bound will reach the pin.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s going to stop there. If it hadn&#8217;t deviated on the second bound Then it would&#8217;ve worked. Whoops. Let&#8217;s play again! Yeah, let&#8217;s go! Tonbo lost? She isn&#8217;t the Kyushu Junior<br \/>\nChampion for no reason. It&#8217;s the first time she&#8217;s lost. I can&#8217;t believe someone beat her. My precious clubs! What a relief, huh? We can play all day today! Say no more! I wonder how Tonbo felt<br \/>\nwhen she lost to Tsubura. I can&#8217;t wait to see what effect<br \/>\nTsubura will have on her&#8230; Here&#8217;s your lunch. I packed enough for everyone. Thanks so much Auntie! Just say Yoko! Right&#8230; Be careful, okay? Otake is a tough climb. They completely abandoned me.. You&#8217;re taking the next ferry? Yeah, I gotta go home. I have to prepare<br \/>\nfor the Japan Junior Championship. Japan Junior? To crown the best junior<br \/>\ngolfer in all of Japan. In all of Japan&#8230;? Why don&#8217;t you try a competition too? I don&#8217;t want to. That&#8217;s such a shame. You think so? You could probably get a good rank. What would I use that for? Tonbo, you&#8230; Huh? You ask the weirdest questions Huh? &#8220;Almost there,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t do this anymore! We made it! It&#8217;s amazing, right?!<br \/>\nLook how round it is! It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m standing on the ocean.<br \/>\nLike I&#8217;m on top of it. America is on the other side<br \/>\nof that ocean, you know. America? It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s top stage for golf.<br \/>\nAnd one day, I&#8217;ll win it all. That&#8217;s my dream. And I intend to make it come true. What&#8217;s your dream, Tonbo? My dream&#8230;? Who do you want to be?<br \/>\nWhat do you aim for? I&#8217;ll stay on the island. Forever??? What&#8217;re you gonna do here? What do you mean? Your dream is just to be on this island? That&#8217;s so boring though? You&#8217;re going to waste your life that way. This island has everything already!<br \/>\nFlying fish, Ryukyu Robins, huge aras,<br \/>\nand goats and Tokara horses! This place has everything. In the summer, when the sea heats up, the<br \/>\nshallow water turns into a perfect mirror. On a pitch-black night,<br \/>\nthe Milky Way reflects so clearly on it. It&#8217;s mesmerizing, really. You won&#8217;t find a view like that<br \/>\nanywhere else in the world. It&#8217;s not boring at all. I like it here. I want to live here until I die. Are you sure that&#8217;s true? You just refuse to admit that<br \/>\nthere is a different world out there. What if more beautiful<br \/>\nviews exist out there? I&#8217;ll use golf to see<br \/>\nthat world for myself. Maybe what I&#8217;m doing to<br \/>\nTonbo is actually cruel. Who am I to decide if she can<br \/>\nor cannot stay on this island? You&#8217;re back early today. When I went fishing,<br \/>\nthe wings were soaring. Grandpa Gon! What does that mean? It means the sea birds were<br \/>\nflying up above the clouds. Be prepared alright, Bunpei. The forecast said it would<br \/>\nhead towards the mainland. The sunset looks odd too.<br \/>\nI promise you, it&#8217;s coming. What&#8217;s coming? You&#8217;re so naive.<br \/>\nRule number one for an islander is checking<br \/>\nthe weather forecast. Tsubura said she was going<br \/>\nhome on the next ferry&#8230; She might not be able to. What does the word &#8220;Phantom&#8221; mean to you? Something rare&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd something precious maybe? So.. your sense of joy? -Eh??<br \/>\n-Cause you always look so scary! Next time on Tonbo! &#8220;The Phantom Hall&#8221; Okay, I&#8217;ll show you an amazing smile! What&#8217;s with that reaction? Please come inside.<br \/>\nHelp yourselves to some blankets. Grandpa Gon was right after all.<br \/>\nThank goodness I prepared. Please let the elderly<br \/>\nuse the folding beds. The typhoon has shifted its<br \/>\ncourse to the east and is slowly moving north, bringing violent<br \/>\nwinds to the Amami Islands. It&#8217;s veered off course&#8230; Are you okay? Yeah, Okinawa gets lots of typhoons too. The ferry might not come, huh&#8230; Right&#8230; Cause the swell<br \/>\nprobably remains for a while&#8230; I have to prepare for the tournament&#8230; What are you doing? I&#8217;ll practice. Come on, practice swings with me. We&#8217;ll take a minute for<br \/>\neach swing and do it slowly. A whole minute? Go! &#8220;At start of the swing, check if the club<br \/>\nis not being snapped inside or outside abruptly and that your left shoulder<br \/>\nfollows properly&#8230; Slow and careful.&#8221; At the halfway back,<br \/>\nwhen the shaft is horizontal, ensure its parallel<br \/>\nto the flight line. Check if the leading-edge matches<br \/>\nyour upper body\u2019s forward tilt and that the left arm is parallel to<br \/>\nthe ground without uneven elbow heights. This is&#8230;<br \/>\nharder than&#8230;it looks Initiate the downswing<br \/>\nwith your lower body&#8230; And keep the upper body as<br \/>\nstill as possible&#8230; Slowly. Does everything go slowly&#8230;? Maintain the angle of<br \/>\nthe right elbow that you formed at the top&#8230;<br \/>\nand keep it&#8230; keep it&#8230; Once you reach the halfway<br \/>\ndown, start releasing the right elbow&#8230;<br \/>\nMake sure it&#8217;s not plunging&#8230; slowly&#8230; to impact&#8230; Ensure your hands aren&#8217;t<br \/>\nraised too high from the address position and keep<br \/>\nthem close to the body. Maintain your upper<br \/>\nbody forward tilt, ensuring it remains<br \/>\nparallel to the flight line. Maintain&#8230;forward&#8230;tilt&#8230; And finish. Staying in perfect balance. finally&#8230; How many times&#8230; do we do this? Fifty times. Th&#8230;that&#8217;ll take an hour! Yep. So, this is the secret between<br \/>\nher monotone swing, huh. I really want to win this year&#8217;s<br \/>\nJapan Junior. If I win in the junior high division, I can take<br \/>\nthe high school division next&#8230; Take it&#8230;? It will get me noticed.<br \/>\nMy name will be known. And I&#8217;ll get invited to<br \/>\nprofessional matches. &#8220;Next, I&#8217;ll win matches while<br \/>\nin high school and then go pro.&#8221; Tsubura&#8217;s vision for her future is<br \/>\ncompletely based on her passion for golf. Looks like the wind<br \/>\nsnapped the power cables. I got more of these in the back. Lemme help you with those. Wow&#8230; She really did it 50 times. She&#8217;s been doing it every<br \/>\nday while here, too. thanks. Aren&#8217;t you overdoing it? My dad has been driving the<br \/>\nsame old truck for years. It&#8217;s full of dents,<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s a hole in the truckbed. He&#8217;s spending a lot of<br \/>\nmoney so I can play golf. I&#8217;ll get really good at golf,<br \/>\nand then I&#8217;ll buy him an nice car. Dad! I wanna try too lemme try! Sure, you can try. I tagged along when he went to the sports<br \/>\nfield to play golf, and he let me try too. My family had a pineapple farm,<br \/>\nbut we weren&#8217;t exactly rich by any means. I became obsessed with playing golf. Mommy, when can I have my<br \/>\nown club to play golf with? Here you go, Tsubura. Sorry I can&#8217;t get you new ones. Dad, how are you gonna play now? Don&#8217;t worry about me. My dad started picking up extra jobs. When I had just started middle school,<br \/>\nI entered a small tournament in Okinawa. My dad drove me there<br \/>\nin his old truck, and I was so embarrassed to<br \/>\nbe seen in that thing. The weather&#8217;s perfect today.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you can get some really good&#8211; Let me off a bit away<br \/>\nfrom the golf course. The winner is Tsubura Adaniya. I want to practice more. Every day. For a while I did go every single day. I got a professional golfer to coach<br \/>\nme, and my work bore fruit. Every young golfer in<br \/>\nOkinawa knew who I was. Let me off here, I said. I won again today. It&#8217;s all thanks to you coach, and to the<br \/>\ndriving range for letting me practice. I&#8217;m coaching you because I want to<br \/>\nsee where your talent takes you. Can&#8217;t say the same for the driving range. Please! I want my daughter to<br \/>\nplay as much golf as she likes! I may be a less-than-perfect<br \/>\ndad, but I believe it&#8217;s my job to let my<br \/>\nkids chase their dreams! Every morning,<br \/>\nyour father picks up every ball on the field and cleans<br \/>\nthe entire range. In exchange, you get to practice for free. I&#8230; can&#8217;t remember ever<br \/>\nseeing my dad sleep&#8230; Do you want to get off here? No. Take me to the clubhouse. I&#8217;m sorry. This old car is<br \/>\nembarrassing, isn&#8217;t it? Why are you saying sorry? I should be the one apologizing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been so selfish. I&#8217;ll make sure to win today. I&#8217;ll win, and no one will<br \/>\never dare laugh at you. Thank you for the ride. I&#8217;ll do my best. Playing golf costs money&#8230;<br \/>\nBut if I get good enough, I can earn back<br \/>\nten times that amount. I&#8217;ll make tons of money and take care<br \/>\nof my parents&#8230; I&#8217;ll pay them back. What about you? Don&#8217;t you want to buy a<br \/>\nnew boat for Grandpa Gon? Thank goodness the ferry wasn&#8217;t cancelled! Take care.<br \/>\nTell your mom and dad I said hi. Yeah. I&#8217;m going to miss you.<br \/>\nI wanted to play with you more. I really think you should aim higher. Tsubura&#8230; You should be more serious about golf. You think so? If you do, you might become<br \/>\nsomeone invincible&#8230; Tsubura? I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll see each other soon. You think so? A 100-year-old woman here made<br \/>\nthis from plastic for you. Little sandals? They resemble one step at a time.<br \/>\nPeople here believe they&#8217;ll help you<br \/>\nget closer to your dream. You&#8217;re giving them to me? I hope your dreams come true. I get one, and you get one. Thanks, Tonbo. I want you to have something too. This is my most well-used club.<br \/>\nEven after I began receiving clubs from the manufacturer,<br \/>\nI just couldn&#8217;t part with this one. But&#8230; It&#8217;s a wood&#8230; Cherish it and wear it out, okay? Tonbo! Let&#8217;s play golf<br \/>\ntogether again soon! I won&#8217;t lose this time! I lost last time! You played with just two clubs&#8230; Tsubura&#8230; Guess I got one more now&#8230; Hey, Grandpa&#8230;? Mmh? Would you like to have a new boat? A boat? A brandnew one. Every fisherman wants that. But I&#8217;m an old man. Even if I got a<br \/>\nnew boat, I couldn&#8217;t use it for long. It&#8217;s a waste on me. Don&#8217;t say that! I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do&#8230; if you died&#8230; I still haven&#8217;t been able<br \/>\nto do anything for you&#8230; How will you live your<br \/>\nlife after I&#8217;m dead? What will you do with your life, Tonbo? What.. will I do&#8230;? It&#8217;s so long&#8230; It flew so high. It curved to the right! In irons, the face sits<br \/>\nbehind the shaft, while in woods, it&#8217;s positioned in front.<br \/>\nThis causes woods to impact<br \/>\nthe ball sooner, often before the face has<br \/>\ncompletely squared up. Many sports require tools, but usually,<br \/>\nonly one piece is needed. Golf is unique, requiring 14 different clubs,<br \/>\nThis is what makes it challenging. It flew so high again! This time, it didn&#8217;t curve right. She adjusted for the difference<br \/>\nbetween the clubs with just one shot&#8230; It stopped right away. That&#8217;s the magic of a hybrid club.<br \/>\nTsubura gave you a great one the<br \/>\noriginal Callaway Steelhead. It&#8217;s over 20 years old,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s such a classic that people still<br \/>\nlove using it today. Irons hit the ball with<br \/>\nthe bottom of the face. Woods vary the use between<br \/>\nthe top and bottom. The top and the bottom? Because you&#8217;ve only ever used an iron, you<br \/>\ntend to scoop the ball from the bottom. Try hitting from the top next. Okay! It reached all the way to the sun. And it kept going! It&#8217;s still rolling! Hit it from the top when<br \/>\nyou want it to go far. So&#8230; What happens if I hit<br \/>\nwith the very bottom of a wood? Try it out. It curved! It stopped right way! If you hit below the center of<br \/>\ngravity, it increases the backspin Use the bottom when you want<br \/>\nto stop the ball precisely. This is so fun! Learning about a new world is always fun. Try shooting with this<br \/>\nclub from a high tee. A high tee? You have to hit a low liner<br \/>\nshot and not touch the tee. What?! That&#8217;s impossible. Let me show you. You did it! How did you not hit the tee at all? Hit the ball with the club&#8217;s top surface<br \/>\nand you can hit the ball effectively. No way. The face is so<br \/>\nbig, I&#8217;ll hit the tee. &#8220;Keep your hands forward and<br \/>\nhit the ball with a bit of loft. That&#8217;s how you<br \/>\nget a liner shot.&#8221; That is what we call real impact. Real impact&#8230; What&#8217;s this? A map of the island? Hm? It&#8217;s the golf course. I keep hitting the tee&#8230; If I manage to not hit it,<br \/>\nthe ball flies too high&#8230; That is what we call real impact. Once you master it,<br \/>\nno matter what club you choose, you&#8217;ll feel the<br \/>\npower behind your shots. I&#8217;m not sure I really<br \/>\nunderstand what he means, but&#8230; but I want to hit a ball like that. I want to hit a ball the way Igaiga can. The first hole is<br \/>\nactually, the fourth? Huh?! Wait, so the first tee is<br \/>\nconnected to the second green? It&#8217;s a tough par five<br \/>\nwith a tricky second shot. The fifth hole plays from the<br \/>\nthird tee to the first green&#8230; And the sixth hole,<br \/>\none can choose to tee off over the bushes or go<br \/>\nalong the coastline. That&#8217;s interesting. Oh, found you. Director. Do you know who made this map?! Igaiga! I can do sparrow shots with Tsubura now! Tsubura? I named the club after her. Right, okay. I still hit the tee in 1<br \/>\nout of 39 shots, but&#8230; It&#8217;s barely been a week<br \/>\nsince I taught her. I know where to go to find out<br \/>\nif you&#8217;ve mastered real impact. Where? A new golf course. You want me to hit the green from here? Exactly. The fifth hole is 225 yards. That&#8217;s so exciting! Does &#8220;fifth&#8221; mean there are more holes? Yes, the hole combination has<br \/>\nbeen changed. Now there&#8217;s six. That&#8217;s an amazing idea. Well, yeah. The course designer made it. He said that<br \/>\nwith this setup, you can play six holes. I thought the islanders<br \/>\nmade the course together! We made it.<br \/>\nBut Mr. Kuta planned it by himself. Igaiga? Ah. Yeah. Sorry. Anyways, Tonbo,<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s your plan for this hole? The headwind means a high<br \/>\nball will never get across. The pin flag is on the far right\u201d<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s ideal for testing what she learned. &#8220;The shot would be a sharp left break,<br \/>\nbut that&#8217;s gonna roll when it lands&#8230; That large hill right there means<br \/>\nI need to go at it from the left.&#8221; Then&#8230; the bunker on the left<br \/>\nof the green becomes crucial&#8230; The headwind calls for a low left<br \/>\nbreak to keep the ball below the hill. If it veers too far left<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll end up in the bunker. However, a low fade from<br \/>\nthe left bunker&#8230; If you can pull that off, a grand path opens up.<br \/>\nThe course is practically asking for<br \/>\nthat shot it&#8217;s a carefully crafted hole,<br \/>\nclearly designed by a professional. Let&#8217;s do this, Tsubura. For a girl, getting the ball to the<br \/>\nfront edge is already impressive&#8230; She just grazed the ball with<br \/>\nthe top of the club face! Fly like a sparrow! Yes! Come on, go in! Oh no&#8230; She always surpasses my imagination&#8230; This hole is awesome! Who planned it out? Mr. Kuta&#8230;? Introduce me to him! Well, he thought this island<br \/>\nwas getting too crowded, so he decided to move to another<br \/>\none in the Tokara Islands&#8230; He thought Hino Island&#8217;s crowded&#8230;? Let&#8217;s go meet him. Let&#8217;s meet the one who designed it. Let&#8217;s find him, Tonbo. You mean&#8230; Go away? What&#8217;s the name of the guy we&#8217;re meeting? His name is Kuta. No, what&#8217;s his first name? I dunno. How can you meet someone if<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t even know their name? Next time! Oi! Tonbo!<br \/>\nTo Akureki Island! Tonbo, what&#8217;s my name? &#8230;.Igaiga. You don&#8217;t know, do you?!?! You want to take Tonbo with you? I&#8217;ll take care of her. Please let me do this. So, you want her to step<br \/>\noutside of the island. Yes. Tonbo needs to be able to<br \/>\nget by on her own eventually. If she stays here,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll have everything she needs. Even if I die,<br \/>\neveryone else will help her. Letting her stay here would undoubtedly<br \/>\noffer the most secure future. She came here after my<br \/>\nson and his wife died. But it might be that this island<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t her final destination. Just like a butterfly, making its<br \/>\nway from one island to another. Maybe Tonbo ought to fly too. A scarred wing is proof<br \/>\nof efforts to soar. As long as she has the wings to<br \/>\nfly, she should use them. Tonbo is starting to change. She wants to. I want to support her. Tonbo. We&#8217;re going to Akureki Island tomorrow. Don&#8217;t worry.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still part of the Tokara Islands. But it&#8217;s not Hino Island&#8230; I know the first step is<br \/>\nthe hardest one to take. But nothing is scarier<br \/>\nthan regretting something. I used to be a professional golfer. What? I will tell you the truth. It was late in the<br \/>\nseason, before a match to determine next year&#8217;s<br \/>\ntournament eligibility. Does he want me to fix the scores? I&#8230; If I lose this game&#8230; The guy who asked for<br \/>\nadvice had been like a little brother to me<br \/>\never since turning pro. Ridiculous. Mr. Igarashi! I was already well-placed&#8230; He must have felt terrible having to ask. Okay. He just became a father and<br \/>\nwas under a lot of pressure. Good. Uh-oh. I got the permit to play. That&#8217;s good. Thank you, you have no idea how&#8211; Stop it. Don&#8217;t say that. He sent me money afterwards. He said it was just a token of thanks. I never intended to demand any money. But once I saw the amount&#8230; I caught myself considering keeping it. I wasn&#8217;t exactly well off myself. I debated it for a week.<br \/>\nThen returned the money. But the golf association<br \/>\nhad already found out. Both of us were expelled. And then my wife and son left me too. But you returned the money, right? I held onto it for a whole week.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the truth. I almost kept it. There&#8217;s no excuse for that. I was too weak and careless. Igaiga&#8230; I lost my pride as a professional,<br \/>\nmy passion for golf and&#8230; my family. Yet, humans still need to eat, right? It\u2019s funny&#8230; I looked for work and found a caretaker<br \/>\njob at a development center on an island. And when I came to this island, I met a<br \/>\ngirl with an incredible talent for golf. A girl named Tonbo. I want you to learn more about golf. The more you learn and the more<br \/>\nyou practice, the more fun it gets. I lost that feeling of joy myself.<br \/>\nI let go of it. I loved golf more than anything,<br \/>\nand yet I allowed myself to lose it. Tonbo. I don&#8217;t want you to<br \/>\nexperience the same thing. I don&#8217;t want you to have regrets. Let&#8217;s go home, Igaiga. I&#8217;ll wait for you at the harbor tomorrow. Tonbo! Oh, Yoko. Tsubura won the Japan junior. That&#8217;s incredible. Tsubura is amazing. She wanted me to tell you. She said it&#8217;s all thanks<br \/>\nto the sandal charm. Tsubura is getting closer<br \/>\nto the future she wants. While I don&#8217;t even dare<br \/>\ntake a single step forward. She&#8217;s not coming. Please, go on aboard. Tonbo! Tonbo&#8230; Safe travels. Bye, Tonbo. It&#8217;s a three-hour trip to Akureki. She finally got the courage to do it. Tonbo is leaving the island&#8230; Even broken wings can fly again&#8230; Dusty loves golf. Not just likes it he loves it. Though he always looks a bit<br \/>\nworn out in his shabby clothes. And that&#8217;s why everyone calls him &#8216;Dusty&#8217;? He introduced himself that way. He said he&#8217;s a person<br \/>\ncovered in the dust of the world. He told us to call<br \/>\nhim &#8216;Dusty&#8217; to match. Before coming to Hino,<br \/>\nhe was a golf photographer, contributing photos to golf<br \/>\nmagazines in America and Japan Oh, really? We didn&#8217;t really get it&#8230; but that&#8217;s exactly what he liked about us. He said we were like the<br \/>\nshepherds from the dawn of golf. Purely enjoying getting<br \/>\nthe ball into the hole. He was apparently a selector for<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s top 100 golf courses. What?! Why would he move here?! He&#8217;s a bit eccentric.<br \/>\nDreams of a reclusive life. Wants to spend his twilight years as<br \/>\nfar away from society as possible. So, he chose Akureki Island,<br \/>\nwhich is even smaller than Hino? Yes, and he lives far from everyone,<br \/>\nwith no phone or anything. Whoa&#8230; You&#8217;re going to have<br \/>\nto go there and search. That won&#8217;t be easy. But I think it&#8217;ll be worth the visit. From traveling the world&#8217;s<br \/>\ncourses, he became interested in course design<br \/>\nso he built one on Hino&#8230; and on Akareki too. Just one hole. But it&#8217;s a very challenging<br \/>\npar-3, apparently. A small, challenging hole on a<br \/>\ntiny island&#8230; Isn&#8217;t that exciting! We&#8217;re the only ones who got off here&#8230; I&#8230;Igaiga. It says &#8216;evil&#8217;&#8230;<br \/>\nUh, well, we have to ask about Dusty. Are you sure? Um, excuse me. Ask away, whatever you need! You&#8217;re scaring the young lady. That ugly<br \/>\nmug of yours is gonna give her nightmares. Shut it. Would you happen to know<br \/>\na man who goes by &#8216;Dusty&#8217;? Dusty? Oh. That&#8217;s why you got those clubs with ya. You know him? Yeah. He lives on the other side. All by himself. Could you tell us the way? We want to meet him. You&#8217;d get lost if you went on your own. I&#8217;ll take ya there. I&#8217;ll be done here soon,<br \/>\nso wait a minute will ya? Thank you so much. So, you&#8217;re from Hino Island?<br \/>\nHow old are ya? I&#8217;m a middle school senior. So, you&#8217;ll be leaving next spring, huh. You like golf, little miss? Yes. I love it. Alright, here we are. Here? This leads to his home. Really?! Are you sure? Walk down this road, you&#8217;ll find it. Thank you so much! My pleasure! Guess we&#8217;re walking, then. Right. How far do we gotta go? What&#8217;s wrong? There&#8217;s&#8211; something over there. Are you&#8230; Dusty&#8230;? Oh&#8230; Akureki has &#8230; wild goats too. This is his house? Looks like it. Is anyone home? Excuse us. Hickory shafts with<br \/>\nleather-wrapped grips&#8230; These clubs are all over<br \/>\na hundred years old! It&#8217;s so pretty. St. Andrews&#8230;<br \/>\nat sunset, or maybe at dawn. I&#8217;ve seen these courses<br \/>\ncountless times on TV, but they feel completely<br \/>\ndifferent in person&#8230; Who&#8217;re you? You&#8217;re not from around here. Are you Dusty? That would be me. Found you! You&#8217;re the child who came to Hino<br \/>\nIsland with nothing but a 3-iron. Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been so long. You don&#8217;t remember me, do you? I don&#8217;t&#8230; I moved here not long after<br \/>\nGon brought you to Hino Island. Tonbo learned golf on<br \/>\nthe course you designed. Really? That makes me very happy to hear. But why did you come to Tokara? I&#8217;ve traveled the world with my camera&#8230;<br \/>\ngot too covered in the grime of society&#8230; I wanted to shed all that baggage,<br \/>\nso I got rid of everything I owned&#8230; I chose to spend my remaining years<br \/>\nsurrounded only by what I truly love. What you &#8230; truly love? You never know when your time is up. It could be tomorrow,<br \/>\nor in a hundred years. We can&#8217;t choose how we die.<br \/>\nBut we can choose how to live. We can choose what our life should be. What&#8217;s your dream, Tonbo? My dream? Who do you want to be?<br \/>\nWhat do you aim for? I&#8217;ll get really good at golf. What will you do with your life, Tonbo? It&#8217;s a choice&#8230; It&#8217;s like the next shot in golf. Instead of dwelling on past mistakes,<br \/>\nI focus on this shot and what comes next. What comes next.. in life&#8230; I guess. So, what brought you here? I heard you built a small golf hole<br \/>\non this island&#8230; is that true? Yes, it&#8217;s true. Please, could you let Tonbo play there? She learned golf on the course I designed<br \/>\nI\u2019d be delighted to let her play! However She won&#8217;t be able to beat that<br \/>\nhole with only three clubs. I&#8217;ll lend you mine tomorrow. Tonbo. Wake up. Wakey wakeeeey! You, former professional. How is she in your opinion? She is a monster. The hole is only 140 yards,<br \/>\nperfect for a short iron.. But, The length makes it difficult. Oh, wow. It&#8217;s so beautiful!<br \/>\nCompletely different from Hino! Igaiga. You look scary. This one\u2019s tough. Incredibly so.<br \/>\nLook at those trees on either side&#8230; The tree on the left is taller,<br \/>\nwhile the one on the right is shorter. The gap in the air might tempt<br \/>\nyou to hit a high draw. But if you just swing away without<br \/>\nthinking, you\u2019ll end up in a trap. A trap&#8230; where? The bunker on the right. It\u2019s intentionally placed<br \/>\nabout 30 yards from the green. You are truly a<br \/>\nformer professional. Today\u2019s wind is coming from<br \/>\nthe back left&#8230; any thoughts? If you go for a draw,<br \/>\nthe wind will fight the ball as it lands. That\u2019ll definitely increase the spin.. The<br \/>\nGreen\u2019s wide, but the approach is super narrow&#8230; And the whole front area slopes<br \/>\nsteeply&#8230; If the ball lands there.. With a short iron, it&#8217;s bound to roll back<br \/>\ntowards the pin&#8230; The slope down to the right bunker is perfectly manicured. The<br \/>\nsecond shot will be a 30-yard bunker shot. And if you don&#8217;t clear the tier, you&#8217;ll<br \/>\nkeep ending up back in that bunker. You might start to worry<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll never finish this hole. If you&#8217;re stuck in the right<br \/>\nbunker, you have to overhit it. That&#8217;s when the left bunker<br \/>\nbecomes a factor. Land there, and you&#8217;re facing<br \/>\na downhill bunker shot. And even if you bypass the bunker on<br \/>\nthe left, you&#8217;re left with a downhill approach. Overshoot the tier,<br \/>\nand it rolls all the way back down.. Man, what a challenge! You go first. Igaiga! It&#8217;s finally time to take on<br \/>\nthe challenge towards Kuta\u2019s hall. Don&#8217;t let your guard down,<br \/>\nthis one is very difficult. Yes sir! Next time! Tonbo!<br \/>\nKuta&#8217;s Hall Conditions Kuta\u2019s Hall is<br \/>\nround and has a sturdy lid. Is that a manhole? I heard you built a small<br \/>\ncourse on this island. Is it true? I think so. Please! Can you let Tonbo play there? Happy to let her play. However, You can&#8217;t conquer that course<br \/>\nwith just those three clubs. Th&#8230; This is&#8230; Beautiful course!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s completely different from Kinoshima! Igaiga, Your face is scary. This one&#8217;s tough. Extremely! Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s Tonbo. Do you think Tonbo will be okay? Igaiga said he would take<br \/>\nresponsibility for her. But, aren&#8217;t you worried? Worrying here won&#8217;t help&#8230; Even though there&#8217;s<br \/>\nlittle space in the air, There&#8217;s still room to<br \/>\naim straight at the pin. Here. So, you aim straight with a simple ball? Oh, It&#8217;s Tsubura&#8217;s strategy. A straight ball has the risk of<br \/>\ncurving either way if you miss. A pro wants to eliminate<br \/>\nrisks from both sides. That&#8217;s why they use a curved shot. Aim far right? There&#8217;s also the option<br \/>\nto hit a light fade here. Then you can use the<br \/>\ngreen lengthwise without worrying about backspin<br \/>\nlike with a draw. I see. As expected of Igaiga. Hmm. Setting up brings immense pressure. It feels overwhelming. If you&#8217;re aiming for a fade, you have<br \/>\nto launch it just left of the edge. But, if the ball goes even slightly<br \/>\nleft, it will fall into the pond. Fearing this, you inevitably<br \/>\nshift your shot to the right&#8230; From there, if it fades,<br \/>\nthe green becomes extremely narrow. It will end up on the right<br \/>\nslope, the most dangerous zone. Left tree space is clear. But hitting a low fade with<br \/>\na short iron is very difficult. When you try to hit it lofted,<br \/>\nthe face tends to close. Then, the left bunker is waiting for you. After all,<br \/>\na draw is the easiest to visualize. Now to the left side? Igaiga thinks a lot. It makes players think. That&#8217;s the mark of a great course. But if it&#8217;s a draw, I have to launch it over the right<br \/>\nside, the biggest danger zone, Yes. The worry that the draw might not<br \/>\nhappen inevitably crosses your mind. It&#8217;s drawing! Scared of the right side,<br \/>\nI closed the face too much. Considering that mistake, the green is<br \/>\ndesigned with the right side farther away and the left side closer,<br \/>\nwith traps ahead and behind on the right. That&#8217;s a tough spot. Did you enjoy it? Whether it&#8217;s a draw, fade, or straight<br \/>\nshot, you need enough precision to overcome the visual pressure<br \/>\nfrom trees, bunkers, and slopes. If the course were longer, it would just be a difficult course. But, it&#8217;s a short par 3 that can be<br \/>\nhit with an 8-iron or less&#8230; It&#8217;s splendid. Right? Well done, Kuta. Damn! I want to hit it again! If someone says that,<br \/>\nthe designer is satisfied. No! No second chances. Tonbo saying, no second chances&#8230; I&#8217;ve been waiting for my turn. Right. Tonbo, which club will you use? An 8 or a 7? This one will do. What? It&#8217;s 140 yards. Yeah! Closing the wedge face won&#8217;t reach. A 3-iron or cleek would go too far. It&#8217;s quite difficult. This has more spin than the 3-iron. Alright! Spin? With a cleek, how? High tee up! So, you&#8217;re going to hit a pop-up shot<br \/>\nto skim over the trees? How childlike. Could Tonbo pull it off? Alright, I&#8217;m counting on you, Tsubura. What&#8217;s that setup? The teed-up ball is set in<br \/>\nfront of her right toes. Plus, it&#8217;s a strong forward press. The loft is 0 degrees,<br \/>\nperpendicular to the ground. No, It might even be negative. It doesn&#8217;t look like the<br \/>\nsetup of a good golfer. Is this a monster? Her left collarbone is pointing down. A little more&#8230; Now to the left? That means she&#8217;s aiming<br \/>\nunder the left tree! Here we go! There&#8217;s less loop in her<br \/>\nbackswing than usual. To the water?! Flying fish ball! Go! Flying fish turn! Climb, climb! I did it! Told you, right? She&#8217;s a monster. Your face is scary. I never expected a player would attack<br \/>\nit like that when I designed it. I give up, I surrender. Tonbo, this isn&#8217;t the first<br \/>\ntime you&#8217;ve done that shot. Skipping the ball across<br \/>\nthe water and curving it isn&#8217;t something you<br \/>\ncan do just like that. Yeah! I played it many times while waiting<br \/>\nfor Grandpa Gon&#8217;s boat to come back. Tonbo! Bring it on! Bring it on! Okay, this time, a break to the left! Wataru, here I go! Alright! Nice catch! One more time! Next, next, it&#8217;s my turn! Bring it on! Alright, Yuma,<br \/>\nthis time go to the other side! I knew it, she learned it while playing. Even though I designed it to require<br \/>\nshots that utilize the aerial hazards, I never thought someone would attack<br \/>\nit by curving over the water&#8230; Tonbo, want to play again? I can&#8217;t leave it like<br \/>\nthis, it&#8217;s frustrating. This time, let&#8217;s have a match<br \/>\nwith the standard approach as per the designer&#8217;s intent. Tonbo, except for her own clubs&#8230; It&#8217;s a serious match between me and<br \/>\nTonbo, designer versus player. Alright, next up! Oh! This won&#8217;t stop! My club! Good for you, Tsubura! The club I&#8217;ve used the longest. It&#8217;s long. It hopped! This is fun! Yeah, discovering a new<br \/>\nworld is always fun. Serious match. Yeah! Tonbo is definitely starting to change. An 8-iron? I have no idea how far an 8-iron can go. I figured it might be this far<br \/>\nsince Igaiga used a pitching wedge. Poi! What is Poi? First, she tees it up high with a<br \/>\ncleek, and now places it directly on the ground.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t make sense. Is she aiming for a<br \/>\ndraw from the left edge? Mmm. Tonbo, who learned golf<br \/>\nwith just a 3-iron, has an incredible sense<br \/>\nfor curving the ball. But, even with the same draw,<br \/>\na 3-iron and an 8-iron are different. Even if the impact is the same,<br \/>\nthe 8-iron will curve less. Let&#8217;s see how she adjusts with the<br \/>\n8-iron she&#8217;s hitting for the first time. Her stance direction is<br \/>\ntotally off for a draw. The shoulders, not the stance,<br \/>\ndetermine the starting direction. It&#8217;s possible to hit a draw with an open<br \/>\nstance and a fade with a closed stance. For a draw to clear the right<br \/>\ntree, a high ball is needed. Yet she&#8217;s setting the ball<br \/>\ncloser to his right foot. This is it. This is Tonbo&#8217;s greatness. Even without being taught,<br \/>\nshe has the instinct to set up perfectly for the<br \/>\nshot she wants to hit. The lowest point of the swing path<br \/>\nchanges between a draw and a fade. For a draw, it shifts to the right,<br \/>\nand for a fade, it shifts to the left. That&#8217;s why the ball position is<br \/>\nright for a draw and left for a fade. She has a strong loop in her swing. She&#8217;s turned the swing plane to the right. All that&#8217;s left is to extend her<br \/>\nright elbow early to get the ball up. That makes the shaft&#8217;s<br \/>\nreverse flex earlier. The loft is applied<br \/>\nand the ball is caught. It&#8217;s a high draw! From that setup?! It looks good! With just a few practice swings, she grasped the characteristics<br \/>\nof the 8-iron and adjusted. Go for it! Tonbo really is a monster! Right at the pin? I did it! Ah, ah, ahhh! Stop! That&#8217;s enough! It&#8217;s from here, Tonbo.<br \/>\nThe serious match between us! Seeing it in person,<br \/>\nit really is far from the green. There are three methods. One is the sand wedge. A shot that takes as<br \/>\nlittle sand as possible. But to cover just over 30 yards,<br \/>\nthe swing is almost a full shot. I&#8217;m afraid of overshooting it by a lot. Even if I hit it well,<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s the fear that the strong backspin will bring<br \/>\nit back to the bunker. The second method is an explosion shot<br \/>\nwith a pitching wedge or a 9-iron. With less loft than a sand wedge, you can<br \/>\nuse a smaller swing to get the distance. The thicker sand contact reduces the<br \/>\nrisk of overshooting and backspin. However, it&#8217;s rare to use anything other<br \/>\nthan a sand wedge for bunker shots. So it&#8217;s hard to visualize<br \/>\nthe distance and trajectory. The third method is a clean<br \/>\nhit with a sand wedge. Compared to an explosion<br \/>\nshot, the smaller swing and lower head speed eliminate<br \/>\nthe worry about backspin. But the launch angle is lower, so there&#8217;s<br \/>\nthe concern of clearing the bunker lip. Now, how will you attack, Tonbo? Decided! A wedge? There&#8217;s also the option of a<br \/>\npitching wedge or a 9-iron. This will do! I thought Tonbo might try an<br \/>\nexplosion shot with the 3-iron&#8230; With a wedge,<br \/>\nis it a clean hit or taking sand? If she stands with her feet<br \/>\ntogether, it&#8217;s a clean hit. If she stands wider than shoulder<br \/>\nwidth, it&#8217;s a full explosion shot. Her stance is almost shoulder width. She closed the face.<br \/>\nPlus, her left foot&#8230; If the ball is buried in the sand,<br \/>\nyou sometimes close the face extremely&#8230; But with a normal lie,<br \/>\nwhat is Tonbo planning? This is the best method! The sand flew so far to the right!? An inside-out bunker shot?! No, The distance is not enough. Go for it! Keep going, keep going! Hitting a big hook with an explosion shot<br \/>\nto get more distance, such a method&#8230; How many times will Tonbo surprise me? Don&#8217;t stop! Go up a bit more! Keep going!<br \/>\nJust a bit more! I did it! I have to mark it quickly! It might fall down! She&#8217;s definitely a monster. Ah, so close! Hey, I don&#8217;t have a marker. Hey, be good and stay still,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be right back! This is so like Tonbo. What is this?! Raked the bunker. Igaiga, what&#8217;s wrong? The grass is magnificent. It&#8217;s true! The grass is finer and<br \/>\nsofter than the green on HinoShima! The green color is beautiful too! I&#8217;m glad you noticed. It&#8217;s a green made by<br \/>\nblending grass that withstands extreme temperatures<br \/>\nand various conditions! Managing the grass is difficult,<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s fun. As I approached the end of my<br \/>\nlife, it became my greatest joy. When I achieve a green that is vibrant,<br \/>\ndense, and uniform, my heart leaps. This person doesn&#8217;t just like golf.<br \/>\nHe loves it. Alright! Just a little break to the left. If I sink this, I win, right? You&#8217;re going to putt with that? Yes! Are you not planning to let that child<br \/>\ninto the world of competitive golf? No, I want her to leave the<br \/>\nisland and play competitive golf. Then why not give her a putter? Tonbo can putt incredibly<br \/>\nwell with the 3-iron. I want to cherish that intuition for now. Until Tonbo herself feels she<br \/>\nneeds a putter, this is fine. She&#8217;ll miss. The ball is on the edge of a step, with<br \/>\nher left foot on the flat surface above. Her right foot is on the<br \/>\nslope below the step. People gauge balance through the<br \/>\nsoles of their feet. Even if she reads the line correctly, the information<br \/>\nfrom his feet will mislead him. The moment she sets<br \/>\nup, she&#8217;ll doubt if it breaks that much,<br \/>\nor if it breaks even more. Like this. What&#8230; I did it! That&#8217;s Tonbo&#8217;s intuition. She has no fixed form. Not good. At this rate, Tonbo&#8217;s golf won&#8217;t hold up in the competitive world! Igaiga, I&#8217;m really glad<br \/>\nI went to that island. That&#8217;s right! When I close my eyes, I remember it! Ah, that amazing golf&#8230; Kuta&#8217;s cooking! You never change! Next time! Tonbo!<br \/>\nThe Unanswerable Line! The smoked mackerel was so delicious~ That was the best! That\u00eds bad At this rate, Tonbo&#8217;s golf won&#8217;t be<br \/>\ncompetitive in the professional world! Won&#8217;t be competitive? That&#8217;s right. Follow me. Where are we going? I don&#8217;t know&#8230; Look at this! It&#8217;s a practice green&#8230; &#8230;and it&#8217;s huge! No, even more than that&#8230; It&#8217;s bumpy! You don&#8217;t know which way<br \/>\nthe ball will go when you roll it! Sounds interesting! Try hitting towards that cup. Wow, it&#8217;s far! You don&#8217;t have to make such a long<br \/>\nputt on the course at Hinoshima! It&#8217;s over 30 steps away&#8230; Alright! Tonbo&#8217;s putting involves<br \/>\nlifting the sole of the club and hitting the middle of the<br \/>\nball with the leading edge. I see&#8230;so if the swing<br \/>\nis too big on a long putt, it&#8217;s difficult to hit<br \/>\nthe middle accurately. If you hit below the equator of the<br \/>\nball, it will float, and if you hit above it,<br \/>\nthe ball will bounce unevenly. No floating or bouncing. Turn to the right, Left! One of Tonbo&#8217;s talents is the ability<br \/>\nto hit the ball with different heights. Finally, to the right! Oh no&#8230; Golfers don&#8217;t often intend to control<br \/>\nthe path of the club from top to bottom, even though they consider the<br \/>\npath of outside-in and inside-out. Alright, one more time! That&#8217;s enough. You should be able to<br \/>\nget it closer next time. Now it&#8217;s this way. Wow, what a slope! I wonder how much it<br \/>\nwill slice to the left&#8230; Alright! Got it! Oh, I see&#8230; So you read it as curving that much&#8230; It&#8217;s a five-step putt to the cup&#8230; It turned seven or eight<br \/>\nsteps to the right. A big curve in the line is expressed by a slight difference in touch in<br \/>\nthe width of the curve. Can you really have such a<br \/>\ndelicate touch with 3-iron? So close! How is it? Impressive. You&#8217;re able to have a<br \/>\nsoft touch with 3-iron. Alright, let&#8217;s try it again! The problem starts here. Huh? Why did this happen&#8230; As expected of someone who went<br \/>\nthrough training. You&#8217;re used to it. It&#8217;s cool and stylish! Please mow slowly. This slope is steep,<br \/>\nso if you go too fast, the teeth will bite into the slope<br \/>\nand tear up the grass. With this size, it will take about<br \/>\n40-50 minutes to mow the entire area! That&#8217;s right, even though I love<br \/>\nit, I&#8217;m getting old and it&#8217;s tough to<br \/>\nmow multiple times. After mowing vertically,<br \/>\nplease mow the entire area horizontally. Huh?! I&#8217;ll go home with Tonbo and have lunch. Huh?! Wait! Come on, Tonbo, let&#8217;s go! Okay! Okay, but wait&#8230; After mowing horizontally, please also<br \/>\nmow diagonally to the right and left! Igaiga, cheer up! I&#8230;I&#8217;m done. Igaiga! Wow! Excellent job! It feels different from earlier! Exactly, it&#8217;s a completely<br \/>\ndifferent green from earlier. Go ahead and roll it! The smoked mackerel made by Kuta was<br \/>\ndelicious! I made it into onigiri! Huge! Thank you, for me! Does she thank me for<br \/>\nsomething related to golf? This is the flattest area here. First, aim for that cup. Hah! The ball sticks to<br \/>\nthe ground like glue! The speed hasn&#8217;t dropped at all! What&#8217;s this? The speed of the<br \/>\ngreen is determined by multiple factors such as the<br \/>\ndensity of the grass, The width of the leaves,<br \/>\nthe hardness of the stems, the presence of fine irregularities,<br \/>\nand the compaction&#8230; Next time, more gently&#8230; W&#8230;was that too weak? Stop! No way! I hit it so gently&#8230; This green is on a remote island and<br \/>\nhasn&#8217;t been stepped on by people. With zero footprints<br \/>\nand zero marks, this green is like a jewel.<br \/>\nOf course it&#8217;s fast. It has the speed of a tournament green&#8230; Right? Hahaha, well done, Kuta. Tonbo has never experienced<br \/>\nsuch high-speed green. It must feel like<br \/>\nrolling on flooring&#8230; Delicious! This is delicious! Right? Well done, Kuta. The expression,<br \/>\n&#8220;The green is fast,&#8221; is used when balls roll further<br \/>\nwith the same touch. But the faster the green,<br \/>\nthe slower the ball actually rolls. The fact that it rolls slowly means that<br \/>\ngravity acts on the ball for a long time. It becomes a line that bends so much&#8230;<br \/>\nThe faster the green, the harder it becomes<br \/>\nto read before hitting. Okay, one more time! No, this is good, over here! This is the same place where<br \/>\nI rolled it before mowing&#8230; That&#8217;s right, try to approach that cup. Isn&#8217;t it &#8216;try to put it in&#8217;? I&#8217;m only about 5 steps away from the cup. Before mowing, the line was about this. Now, because the green speed is 2 or 3<br \/>\ntimes faster, the curve is like this. No, that&#8217;s not it! Did she turn her back to the cup&#8230; Alright, good job! Go, go in! Ouch&#8230; Tonbo, who has surprised<br \/>\nme many times before is now unable to produce<br \/>\nresults for the first time. It won&#8217;t come close at all. Try rolling it as much<br \/>\nas you like to see how you can get it closer<br \/>\nto the cup from there. If you get bored, come back. Let&#8217;s go. Tonbo, Can she find the line on the green? There is no line to bring the<br \/>\nball closer to the cup from there. Whether it&#8217;s a 3-iron or a putter. There is no line to<br \/>\nbring the ball closer&#8230;? Tonbo hit the ball towards the<br \/>\nhighest point of the slope, and it cannot expand the<br \/>\nline any further than that. Even if you gently place the<br \/>\nball at the top of the slope, it will start moving on its<br \/>\nown on the current green. Once it starts moving, it will only<br \/>\naccelerate and not stop around the cup. So, why did you say that to Tonbo? I wanted Tonbo to know that her current play style<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t work in competitive golf. The placed ball sinks slightly<br \/>\ninto the grass due to its weight. If you hit the ball with an iron blade<br \/>\nlike Tonbo, it won&#8217;t float. That way, It receives the full resistance of the<br \/>\ngrass at start and the roll is unstable. But putters have loft. So the ball floats<br \/>\nfor a moment, a slight carry occurs, it lands and immediately transitions to<br \/>\na forward spin, stabilizing the roll. When it comes to putting, putters are far<br \/>\nmore advantageous&#8230; It&#8217;s only natural. It&#8217;s not bad to stick<br \/>\nto your own play style. However, that strong<br \/>\nattachment could potentially rob Tonbo of her agility<br \/>\nin competitive golf. Surely, that&#8217;s not what<br \/>\nyou really want, is it? Is it time to refill<br \/>\nthe sand in the bunker?! Let&#8217;s get the heavy lifting done<br \/>\nwhile the young ones still have energy! As you wish! But she&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t come down. It&#8217;s truly terrible&#8230; Shall I teach her? There is no such thing<br \/>\nas a gathering line Barefoot&#8230; What? Is she gathering information<br \/>\nfrom the soles of her feet?! Wh&#8230;which way is she facing?! I&#8230;it can&#8217;t be true?! Hey&#8230; I did it! There was a gathering line&#8230; Did you find it? Did you see it? I gathered it! Look! But, it doesn&#8217;t go in. Well, of course&#8230;just<br \/>\ngathering it is enough&#8230; If you can put it in,<br \/>\nis this the way to do it? Pick up the head with just the<br \/>\nwrist, to the outside&#8230;! Can&#8217;t cut to the left&#8230;! The cut spin is compensating<br \/>\nfor the slope&#8230;! The spin came off?! Uh oh! Alright! Hey, hey, did it go in? Yay! How&#8217;s it, Kuta? I hear you&#8217;re hesitating<br \/>\nto leave the island? Yeah. Both Tonbo and I live on the<br \/>\nisland because we like it here. But there&#8217;s a difference between us. A difference? I live on the island after experiencing<br \/>\nthe world, but Tonbo lives on the island without knowing anything else and just<br \/>\nbecause it&#8217;s a good place to live. Don&#8217;t misunderstand. What&#8217;s wrong with living happily on<br \/>\nan island without ever leaving it? That&#8217;s also wonderful. And you know, leaving the island and experiencing something<br \/>\nother than the island&#8230; that&#8217;s also a great thing. But which one is better? Tonbo decides. Fold your wings and live peacefully,<br \/>\nor let them flutter until they almost tear and fly&#8230; It&#8217;s your life, no one else&#8217;s. You are the protagonist,<br \/>\nyou will weave your own story. Can I ask you one thing? How was it coming to this island? Playing in the course for the first<br \/>\ntime, experiencing the speed of the green that you&#8217;ve never<br \/>\nexperienced before, how was it? It was fun, Really great. There are so many firsts, So many things to experience, In this world. Yeah! Thank you for everything. Bye bye, Kuta. Yeah. Tonbo, your putting was magnificent. Still, I wish Tonbo would use a putter. Tonbo has returned, huh? Yeah, Tonbo has returned! Ah, the Tonbo who left the<br \/>\nisland for the first time! Don&#8217;t make such a big deal out of it. She just went to play a little<br \/>\non the same Tokara island. Tonbo has come down! Something about Tonbo. So mature. Tonbo is so cool! You look great. I&#8217;m home! Welcome back! How was Akureki Island? It was really fun! I see, it was fun? That&#8217;s great. Hey, Yoko&#8230; If you need to contact Tsubura&#8230; Tsubura? What&#8217;s up? Actually, never mind! Tonbo! I&#8217;m glad, is it Uncle Gon or Aunt Setsu? It&#8217;s my first time leaving the island. It was fine. So, you know&#8230; I ended up with four clubs. Igaiga, Tsubura Mr. Kuta. And then&#8230; Mr. Kuta, whom I met on Akureki<br \/>\nIsland, told me something. Things that I have never experienced<br \/>\nare overflowing outside of the island. I&#8217;m excited. Just like back then. Dad, Mom. I have made a decision. Igaiga! Let&#8217;s try rolling the ball with this!<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s go to the course! This course won&#8217;t roll<br \/>\nas fast as Mr. Kuta&#8217;s. Oh, but it&#8217;s fun when<br \/>\nit&#8217;s fast like that&#8230; Hey, can you mow the lawn? Didn&#8217;t I just get back? Give me a break. Will it be in a cup? Just when I thought we<br \/>\ngave up because of the rain, we ended up doing<br \/>\nsomething like this&#8230; Wow! That&#8217;s fast! That&#8217;s Augusta-level speed. Augusta? It&#8217;s a course famous for its super-fast<br \/>\ngreen, known as the Glass Green. A green that fast?!<br \/>\nIs there really a course like that? I want to try playing on it. I want to know more<br \/>\nabout different courses. Tonbo&#8230; Well, there&#8217;s a slight distortion. Then&#8230; Yes! I did it! Did you purposely hit it with a fade? Yeah. I was hoping it<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t slice to the left. Why? I don&#8217;t know, but somehow&#8230; Wow, that angry face is getting scary. If you hit with a toe, the face<br \/>\nwill have the force to try to open. The slightly open face<br \/>\nwill offset the hook line. Even if you don&#8217;t know the theory,<br \/>\ndid you sense it with your intuition? What&#8217;s wrong, Tonbo? School starts tomorrow! Teacher! Did you finish all your homework? Of course! Oh no! I still have to write my essay&#8230; Hey, Tonbo! It&#8217;s already late! School starts tomorrow, right? Geez&#8230; I&#8217;ve decided, Igaiga! What did you decide? When next spring comes When spring comes? Yeah, when it comes&#8230; When it comes? Next time! Tonbo! Real Feelings! Hey, what did you decide on? See you again next time! Hey, Tonbo!! See you later. Good morning! Good morning! Yuma, Wataru! See you later! Tonbo! We&#8217;re faster! No way! The last summer vacation? Yeah, in 3rd grade in middle school, they have to write an essay<br \/>\nwith that topic. The students leaving the island next spring will write<br \/>\nabout their thoughts and goals. Leaving the island&#8230; I wonder what Tonbo wrote. It&#8217;ll be posted<br \/>\non the bulletin board after school today. The last summer vacation Class 3-1, Tonbo Oi. On this island, it&#8217;s a tradition<br \/>\nfor middle school 3rd grade students to write an essay with this topic<br \/>\nduring their last summer vacation. There is only a middle school<br \/>\non the island, so in the next spring, students<br \/>\nleave the island to attend high school, making<br \/>\nthis their last summer vacation here. But I&#8217;m different. I&#8217;m not going to high school,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not leaving the island, it&#8217;s not the last time,<br \/>\nI always thought that. I came to the island when I was in<br \/>\nsecond grade in elementary school. My parents died in an accident,<br \/>\nand Uncle Gon brought me here from Kagoshima where I used to live. At first, I cried every day. I felt bad for Uncle Gon and Aunt Setsu,<br \/>\nwho were kind to me, so I cried in secret. One day, Uncle Gon found me. Uncle Gon said, &#8220;You try so hard to make us like you. That&#8217;s why you cry in secret. Don&#8217;t rush,<br \/>\nthis island has plenty of time. Let&#8217;s slowly become a real<br \/>\ngrandpa and granddaughter. Don&#8217;t worry. Even if the whole world<br \/>\nturns against you, I&#8217;ll be on your side.&#8221; From that day on, I stopped crying. Aunt Setsu<br \/>\nalways slept with me in the same bed. The director let me play with Tokara horses and showed me the stars at the observatory. Bunpei caught goats for me and taught me how to fish. Yoko baked cakes for me,<br \/>\ntrimmed my nails neatly, and smelled like a mother. Everyone on the island<br \/>\nalways called out to me, &#8220;Tonbo, Tonbo.&#8221; Every day became fun.<br \/>\nEvery day felt like summer vacation. The most fun thing was playing golf. The club<br \/>\nmy dad left me became toy, and the course everyone<br \/>\non the island made became my playground. Then in June this year,<br \/>\nIgaiga came to the island. Igaiga was very good at golf. He taught me<br \/>\nways to hit the ball that I didn&#8217;t know. He gave me a club<br \/>\nthat I had never used before. I used to think people from<br \/>\noutside the island were scary, but Igaiga was different. Sometimes<br \/>\nhis face could look scary, but he shared secrets with me<br \/>\nthat no one else knew, treating me<br \/>\nmore like a friend than a child. Playing on the course with<br \/>\nIgaiga was really fun, and it made me<br \/>\nlove golf even more. During summer vacation, Tsubura,<br \/>\nYoko&#8217;s niece, came to visit the island. Tsubura is the same age as me,<br \/>\nbut she&#8217;s really good at golf and wants to succeed in America,<br \/>\nearn a lot of money, and make her parents proud. I had never thought about things like that. Everyone on the island, Uncle Gon,<br \/>\nAunt Setsu, always did things for me, but I hadn&#8217;t done anything for them. After Tsubura left,<br \/>\nUncle Gon asked me something. &#8220;How will you live after I die?&#8221; I had never thought about Uncle Gon dying. I didn&#8217;t want him to say such things. But I started to think<br \/>\nthat I want to become someone who can repay Uncle Gon. After Tsubura left the island, I heard she won a big golf tournament<br \/>\ncalled the Japan Junior. She is moving step by step<br \/>\ntowards her dream. This summer vacation,<br \/>\nI left the island for the first time. I went to Akureki Island. On Akureki Island, there<br \/>\nwas a man named Kuta who had built a small one-hole golf course. Kuta said, &#8220;There are many things in<br \/>\nthe world that are new and unknown.&#8221; I received golf clubs<br \/>\nfrom Igaiga, Tsubura, and Kuta. When I use those clubs,<br \/>\nI can hit shots I never knew before. I keep loving golf more and more. I want to love many more things. It&#8217;s not the last time,<br \/>\nI always thought so. But this is the last summer<br \/>\nvacation I&#8217;ll spend on the island. I&#8217;ve decided.<br \/>\nNext spring, I&#8217;m leaving the island. Uncle Gon! Welcome back! She has made up her mind&#8230; Tonbo. That Tonbo is leaving the island&#8230; &#8230;Isn&#8217;t there anything we can do for her? That&#8217;s right, until she leaves the island, let&#8217;s do something for Tonbo every day&#8230; You don&#8217;t need to do anything. Just as always, that&#8217;s the best. Can I talk about after leaving the island? From the perspective<br \/>\nof those coaching the club, Tonbo&#8217;s golf<br \/>\nmust seem unconventional. Tonbo&#8217;s golf has no fixed form. However, the current golf world<br \/>\ntrains players to fit an ideal form. It&#8217;s not necessarily bad. But&#8230; But? I fear it might take away<br \/>\nwhat makes Tonbo special&#8230; They might keep criticizing her,<br \/>\nsaying &#8220;That&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; and she&#8217;ll be constantly corrected.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how people create a swing in golf. But Tonbo<br \/>\nhas never tried to create a swing. Tonbo tries to create the ball. I want to nurture<br \/>\nTonbo&#8217;s free-spirited golf as it is. So, you&#8217;re saying<br \/>\nshe shouldn&#8217;t join a golf club? She&#8217;s finally leaving the island,<br \/>\nand you want her to play golf alone&#8230; No, she needs competitors. Absolutely. So, what are you going to do? I have one idea. Can you leave it to me? I only know about the island and fishing. I&#8217;m an amateur<br \/>\nwhen it comes to the mainland and golf. If you think it&#8217;s best for Tonbo&#8230; I&#8217;ll trust you with it. Thank you very much! Please! I beg you! Igarashi. You came back well. You idiot, it sounds like<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re welcoming him back! You should say,<br \/>\n&#8220;How dare you to come back?&#8221; Well, anyway, do you want<br \/>\nto entrust that island kid to us? I know I have no right to ask this favor. But still, please. If you accept, I&#8217;ll do anything! For that child&#8230; &#8230;Tonbo&#8217;s future is at stake. Diploma, awarded! Class 3-1, Ooi Tonbo! Yes! Diploma, Ooi Tonbo. This certifies the completion<br \/>\nof all middle school courses. Congratulations. Thank you very much! Tonbo, I saw your panties! I showed you! Still a kid inside. One week left&#8230; To, Tonbo! Wataru? What&#8217;s wrong? Did something happen? Tonbo! Tonbo! Hey! Tonbo! Why you Calling me so&#8230; What is it? I, I, always&#8230; um&#8230; Tonbo, about Tonbo&#8230; Always&#8230; I&#8217;ve always liked you, Tonbo! I like you too, Wataru! N-no, that&#8217;s not what I mean! My feelings are much, much more, so much! I love you so much I want to marry you! M-marry? Th-thank you! I&#8217;ll play golf too! I&#8217;ll get good,<br \/>\nand when I graduate middle school, I&#8217;ll come to you, Tonbo! I&#8217;ll grow taller, become a cool guy! Huh? Your hands are reversed. Now, give it a try. Just like Bunpei! I, I really love golf now! That was surprising&#8230; Yo-yo-yo Yoko! What&#8217;s up, Tonbo? Ah! Sorry about that! Haha. Heh? Wataru, huh? When I realized he was trying to<br \/>\nconvey his feelings properly&#8230; it made me really happy. Kids are great, so straightforward. It doesn&#8217;t matter! Kids or adults. Everyone on the island knows<br \/>\nBunpei&#8217;s feelings for Yoko. Yoko is aware too. But&#8230; But? Hasn&#8217;t it been conveyed? How much Bunpei likes her. Bunpei, you should be<br \/>\nmore straightforward, don&#8217;t you think so? Geez, Yoko&#8230; When I reached out to pet her,<br \/>\nYoko bit me. Could you stop calling her Yoko, Yoko?<br \/>\nIt sounds like I bit you. But, Bunpei&#8217;s goat is named Yoko. He&#8217;s a good guy. Don&#8217;t you think about dating him? With Bunpei, even marriage&#8230; I can&#8217;t marry Bunpei. Yo, Yoko! Why not? Oh, Bunpei? I&#8217;ve loved you, Yoko,<br \/>\nsince you first came to the island, since the first day I saw you&#8230; Why can&#8217;t we be together? Would it be okay with someone else? Is it Igaiga? Is it because<br \/>\nhe came from outside the island? Calm down, Bunpei! Why not&#8230; Someone like me&#8230; No one likes me&#8230; Bunpei! Aren&#8217;t you going to chase him? Yoko! Tonbo&#8230; You know,<br \/>\nI have a bit of a chronic illness&#8230; I&#8217;ve been told<br \/>\nto give up on having children&#8230; They said so&#8230; I still get regular checkups<br \/>\nat a hospital in Kagoshima. Don&#8217;t you like Bunpei? He&#8217;s a good person. Very&#8230; Then&#8230; Tonbo! You need to say it properly,<br \/>\nor it won&#8217;t get through! Bunpei tried to convey<br \/>\nhis feelings properly! You are really here! Tonbo told me. She said if anything happens,<br \/>\nthe golfers on the island would come here. I need to convey my feelings properly too. Will it be okay? Yoko&#8230; By the way, Udo from Kumamoto contacted me. Are you anxious? Only one week&#8230; left. No I am not&#8230; I&#8217;m excited. I want to learn new things. However, this time,<br \/>\nunlike on Akureki Island, I&#8217;ll be outside the island<br \/>\nfor a long time&#8230; No Uncle Gon, no Aunt Setsu,<br \/>\nno one, not even Igaiga&#8230; I&#8217;m scared&#8230; Let&#8217;s go. The wind is the same as the first time<br \/>\nI played golf with Tonbo! No, maybe a bit stronger than that day&#8230; Try hitting it. Aim for that spot. But if I aim that far left&#8230; It is okay, even if you drop it in the sea. Swing boldly like you always do,<br \/>\nand try to curve it. Like I always do&#8230; That&#8217;s right.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be afraid. Just be yourself. This island, Tonbo&#8217;s Hinoshima,<br \/>\nwill never change, no matter what. Never. You can do it, Tonbo! Nice shot! Haha, it fell into the sea after all! That&#8217;s fine. Your worries are now entrusted<br \/>\nto the Tokara Sea. Yeah. So, children&#8230; You know, I love everyone on this island. They warmly welcomed me,<br \/>\nafter I left Okinawa. I know your parents well too. They are surely looking forward<br \/>\nto seeing you marry someone and have grandchildren someday. If it wasn&#8217;t the case, I&#8230; If it wasn&#8217;t? You&#8217;re so silly&#8230; I would have been with you<br \/>\na long time ago. I like you&#8230; It was Igaiga who said it&#8217;s okay to go OB. You can let me off by one stroke! That&#8217;s that, and this is this. Oh, come on! Alright! This time for sure! I forgot I told Yoko<br \/>\nthat probably Bunpei is here. O-okay, let&#8217;s go back today. R&#8230; Roger. Igaiga! The time has come! Tonbo, you have checked everything, right? I have my clothes, my 3-iron, wedge,<br \/>\nputter from Tsubura&#8230; I&#8217;ve got everything! Alright, let&#8217;s go! Next time on Tonbo! &#8220;See you later!&#8221; Both of you!<br \/>\nYou forgot your boarding tickets! Oh no!!! I forgot!!! If you keep doing that,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll never finish packing. I&#8217;m almost done, seriously. Don&#8217;t take unnecessary things with you. Just clothes and the bare essentials. I know. I&#8217;ll send the rest on the next ferry. Okay. Make sure you clean up<br \/>\nand tidy your room properly. I said I know. Hey Uncle Gon, don&#8217;t throw away my stuff<br \/>\nin my room without asking. Alright, alright. I don&#8217;t know why but<br \/>\nUncle Gon seems grumpy&#8230; Huh? Isn&#8217;t he always like that? No, he&#8217;s unusually sullen today. Maybe he&#8217;s feeling lonely? He doesn&#8217;t want you to know that. Hey, hey! Tonbo! Focus on your left shoulder and wrist&#8230; Swing! What&#8217;s going on? You&#8217;re practicing, Wataru! Oh, Tonbo! Teach me! Yesterday, Bunpei<br \/>\nand the director taught me, but it was all about the backswing. Backswing? They said to start with the left shoulder, and to hinge the wrist&#8230;<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t quite get it. Bunpei was like,<br \/>\n&#8220;Golf is all about the backswing!&#8221; Even though he&#8217;s just an amateur! How do you do your backswing, Tonbo?<br \/>\nTeach me! I don&#8217;t understand complicated stuff! You should ask Igaiga about golf&#8230; I want you to teach me, my Tonbo&#8230; Calling you that way!? So cheeky! I don&#8217;t really know<br \/>\nhow to explain the backswing&#8230; It&#8217;s more about finding a spot<br \/>\nwhere you can swing down easily&#8230; There&#8217;s a spot<br \/>\nwhere you can easily hit the ball, right? A spot where it&#8217;s easy to hit the ball? It&#8217;s like pounding mochi. When you pound mochi,<br \/>\nyou raise the mallet, right? From here, or from here, you know<br \/>\nit won&#8217;t hit the mochi properly, right? You naturally find the spot<br \/>\nwhere it&#8217;s easiest to swing down, right? Yeah! It&#8217;s the same with hitting the ball&#8230; From certain spots,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s hard to make a good hit. This spot looks<br \/>\na bit difficult. Yeah! Here! This spot looks good! It looks easy to swing down from!<br \/>\nSo from here! Wow! Nice shot! When you lift,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s more about just pulling back, I guess. More than that, it&#8217;s about<br \/>\nhow you swing down, how you hit the ball&#8230; I see&#8230; Normally, without the momentum from the backswing,<br \/>\nhitting the ball is difficult. That&#8217;s why most golfers focus on<br \/>\nhow to raise the backswing. But everything about the shot<br \/>\nis determined by the downswing. As long as the downswing<br \/>\nis on the correct path, you&#8217;ll hit a good shot. Focus more<br \/>\non the downswing than the backswing&#8230; Igaiga, your face looks scary&#8230; -He&#8217;s smiling&#8230;<br \/>\n-He&#8217;s smiling&#8230; Golf competition? Yes! Tonbo&#8217;s Farewell Cup! We decided to have it the day<br \/>\nbefore Tonbo leaves the island. Yeah! Uncle Gon, come watch too! I&#8217;m not interested in rolling balls! Oh, come on, don&#8217;t say that. It&#8217;s Tonbo&#8217;s farewell party. It might be the last time<br \/>\nshe plays golf on the island&#8230; I&#8217;m fine. Nothing&#8217;s going well&#8230; I can&#8217;t marry Bunpei&#8230; Bunpei! Tonbo. You&#8217;re sighing, are you okay? I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m fine! I&#8217;m feeling great! A-are you okay? Only 5 days left? Oh, right! We&#8217;re having a competition<br \/>\nthe day before you leave! When are you marrying Yoko? Why do you ask all of a sudden!? What&#8217;s up? That is&#8230; It&#8217;s fine now. It&#8217;s fine now&#8230; Wait! But things were going well<br \/>\nat the golf course the other day! Yoko has her own feelings too, you know. What about your feelings, Bunpei? What about your feelings for Yoko, Bunpei? I&#8230; Are you giving up? My feelings&#8230; Bunpei&#8230; How will Tonbo&#8217;s unconventional golf grow<br \/>\nonce she leaves the island? I wanted to let Tonbo eat some good fish&#8230; That&#8217;s how it was&#8230; with Tonbo&#8230; Mom, did you know about Yoko&#8217;s condition? Yes, I knew. If I said I wanted to marry Yoko, would you oppose it? Yes, I would&#8230; I see&#8230; If you would give up just because your parents opposed it,<br \/>\nthen I would oppose it. If you got married, and your wife and I had a fight,<br \/>\nwhose side would you take? Well, it depends on the fight, but&#8230; I would tell her to respect you&#8230; You&#8217;re a kind son. And&#8230; A fool! A complete fool! Such a man should not get married. Mom&#8230; If you side with me,<br \/>\nyour wife will be left alone. She married you relying only on you,<br \/>\nbut she&#8217;ll be alone. If you don&#8217;t stand by her, who will? Push me aside and protect your wife. No matter what,<br \/>\nnever leave your wife alone. That&#8217;s what marriage is about. Well, I&#8217;m off. Alright. Well then,<br \/>\nwe now begin the Tonbo Farewell Cup! Let&#8217;s all do our best! Yeah!!!! Doing things out of the ordinary&#8230; From tomorrow, it will be my job. Oh my&#8230;! It&#8217;s the last day, so I put in the effort. Tomorrow is finally the day. Oh! The Golfer! Aren&#8217;t you putting<br \/>\nin a bit too much effort? Not at all! Alright, it&#8217;s my turn! Have you prepared<br \/>\nsome kind words for her departure? Kind words&#8230; Leaving the island<br \/>\nmight be truly terrifying for her. But if she shows her fear, she might worry me,<br \/>\nso she keeps it to herself. If you understand that&#8230; Tonbo has been running every day.<br \/>\nShe probably thinks of it as training. She&#8217;s determined<br \/>\nto pursue golf in her own way. I can&#8217;t let her resolve<br \/>\nweaken with kind words. That&#8217;s my role as her surrogate parent. Tonbo! My ball&#8230; I did it! Don&#8217;t come back to the island<br \/>\nfor trivial reasons! Since you&#8217;re leaving<br \/>\nwith the resolve to play golf, you can&#8217;t return<br \/>\nuntil you&#8217;ve achieved a decent result! That&#8217;s what I plan to tell her! If you say something like that, what will Tonbo do<br \/>\nif she faces hardships over there&#8230; That&#8217;s the point. Tonbo has already faced hardships<br \/>\noutside the island. If she faces hardships again and returns easily,<br \/>\nshe might never leave again. I can&#8217;t let her become a weak person again. Nice par. Nice par. Tonbo, as expected! That&#8217;s amazing. Thank you, Yoko. Golf is so much fun! Right, right? I wish I had started earlier. You&#8217;ll get good quickly, Yoko! Really? Yeah! Oh, we have a tailwind today! Director, you are in good shape today. You might get on in two. No, no, I&#8217;ll get on in one! Hey! Director! Just don&#8217;t hit a grounder~ Yoko! Marry me! Are you listening? Yoko. W&#8230;We talked about this<br \/>\nthe other day, didn&#8217;t we? I&#8230; Even so, marry me! About children, i&#8230; it&#8217;s fine! Look! I&#8217;m practically like a child myself. And I have goats! They&#8217;re as cute as children! Plus, we have Tonbo! Me? Tonbo is everyone&#8217;s child on the island! She is everyone&#8217;s child! We all raised her together! It&#8217;s also our child! We already have a child! So, marry me! Bunpei! It is ridiculous. I know,<br \/>\nbut his feelings came through clearly. I&#8230; I&#8217;m a small man, but&#8230; No, you&#8217;re not small, you&#8217;re admirable. I can&#8217;t promise to make you happy&#8230; But I&#8217;ll always be by your side, This&#8230; On this island, always! Until our hair turns white! I&#8217;ll always be by your side! So&#8230; So! Marry me! Yoko! Yoko, what&#8217;s your answer? Y-yes&#8230; She nodded! She said yes! Good for you, Bunpei. -Bunpei!<br \/>\n-Bunpei! Are you okay? Tonbo, what&#8217;s wrong?<br \/>\nAren&#8217;t you tired from golf today&#8230; It&#8217;s fine! Tomorrow&#8230; Don&#8217;t oversleep. Okay! This is my granddaughter, Tonbo. Please take care of her. Welcome! Nice to meet you, Tonbo! Are you going to play golf? Hey, let&#8217;s go. What are you doing? Come on, So small, so soft&#8230; I&#8217;ve never seen hands like that before&#8230; Oh, you like fish! If it&#8217;s fish,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll catch as many as you want! This old man is a fisherman! Uncle Gon&#8230; I had a scary dream. Uncle Gon, Uncle Gon, Uncle Gon, Uncle Gon, Uncle Gon! Uncle Gon! Dear Uncle Gon. Uncle Gon,<br \/>\nthank you for raising me until now. Even if I&#8217;m gone, don&#8217;t drink too much!<br \/>\nUp to 3 cups! On sunny days, air out the futon!<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be lazy, cut your toenails too! Remember to turn off the bathroom light! Adding fabric softener<br \/>\nmakes the laundry feel nicer! Like an old wife. Don&#8217;t forget about me, from Tonbo. Tonbo&#8230; Thank you. Please take care of Tonbo! Yes! Tonbo! Safe! Just barely! Bunpei said he was happy to call me<br \/>\n a child of the island! Everyone on the island helped raise me!<br \/>\nThank you! I&#8217;m off! Tonbo! Take care! See you later! Tonbo! Tonbo! Do your best! Do your best! See you&#8230; Yeah! Tonbo, take care! Tonbo! Tonbo! -Do your best!<br \/>\n-See you soon! Tonbo!!!! I won&#8217;t forget! Tonbo and I are<br \/>\ngrandpa and granddaughter! Uncle Gon&#8230; Always! Always come back!<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s tough, come to this old man! Always come back to this island! Uncle Gon&#8230; Uncle Gon! I&#8217;m off! I&#8217;m off! Uncle Gon! Tonbo&#8230; Take a good look, Tonbo. That island is your home. The place where your story began. Your proud homeland. Take a good look. A new story<br \/>\nwoven by Tonbo is about to begin. Igaiga, we&#8217;ll be arriving<br \/>\nin Kagoshima soon. -I&#8217;m getting nervous.<br \/>\n-Yeah. What is it? I was just remembering. The first time I took this ferry<br \/>\nto Hinoshima, your hometown. Were you nervous? Nervous? More like anxious, I\u2019d say. What a place. Nothing but mountains and sea.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve sure traveled far. When we first met, you were so startled<br \/>\nthat you fell down! When I first saw you,<br \/>\nI thought you were a boy! That\u2019s so mean! I was really looking forward<br \/>\nto your arrival! Just like yourself, the people on this<br \/>\nisland are full of personality. At first, your grandpa seemed scary.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t like him very much. But Grandpa Gon<br \/>\nwas always looking out for you. My tea is murky. His eyes are a dull grey. Ichiga Igarashi! Iga-Iga! Yes, over here! That\u2019s me! By the way, it\u2019s Kazuyoshi Igarashi! Oh, so you\u2019re Igaiga. Aunt Setsu was kind from the start, right? She was. Come to think of it, Aunt Setsu was the first person<br \/>\nto call me Igaiga. And the breakfast she made me was so good! Here you are. I&#8217;ve brought the museum director. Oh. The director is technically my superior, but I was so relieved<br \/>\nby how approachable he was. -What\u2019s his name again?<br \/>\n-It&#8217;s Kento Hidaka, of course! -Oh, right.<br \/>\n-Do you remember Bunpei&#8217;s full name? Bunpei&#8230; Bunpei&#8230; Tarou! Osamu Fumihira! Don&#8217;t forget! What did you think<br \/>\nwhen you first met Yoko? Her? Oh, well, I&#8230; -Hi Yoko.<br \/>\n-Keep driving, Bunpei! -Takuma, too.<br \/>\n-I&#8217;ll stop the bleeding. Let\u2019s play soccer! The police officer,<br \/>\nthe teacher, Wataru, and Yuma. You got along with everyone right away. -Even though you have a scary face!<br \/>\n-You were the fastest to fit in! Don&#8217;t forget the island&#8217;s wildlife! Those beautiful sunset-red feathers. And goats were just walking around! And that insect! You got stung on the butt! It was so unbelievably itchy! The creatures on the island are amazing! Red fur, Tokara horses, goats,<br \/>\ngiant eels, Bunpei, and that insect! Wait. Did you include Bunpei in that list? Bunpei? But the most surprising thing was the island&#8217;s incredible golf course! What? What the heck is this? Amazing! They used the natural coastal terrain<br \/>\nto create a full-on links course! The islanders built it<br \/>\nfor their own enjoyment! There&#8217;s a headwind today. I&#8217;m taking the shot! She grips the club like a baseball bat. This really is just for fun. She has an extreme open stance,<br \/>\nfacing directly towards the sea. For a shot like this,<br \/>\nyou need to hit a low, strong draw. But she uses a thin three iron for it. For a girl, it&#8217;s quite a long, stiff club. I guess she&#8217;s expecting a big slice. Go! Like a swallow before the rain,<br \/>\nslipping under the wind! What was that follow-through? There it goes! I did it! I&#8217;d never seen a kid play like you did. I thought you must be a monster! A monster? That&#8217;s so mean! No, it&#8217;s a compliment! -It means you left a big impression!<br \/>\n-Don&#8217;t call me a monster! What was your first impression<br \/>\nof me, Tonbo? Well, you\u2019ve got a scary face. A really scary face. Your face is really scary, Igaiga. Okay, next topic. At first, I didn&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nanything about you. You refused to leave the island. I\u2019m staying. I&#8217;m staying on this island forever! I\u2019m not going anywhere! Look! This is the pride of the island. It feels like time has stopped here. I wonder which ones are my mom and dad? They say people<br \/>\nturn into stars when they die. I understood the reason you learned<br \/>\nto play golf with a three iron. I remember you cried then. It was just the starlight<br \/>\nstinging my eyes. -Is that so?<br \/>\n-Of course! Sorry, I got carried away. What will you do about high school? There\u2019s only a middle school<br \/>\non the island. I\u2019m not going to high school. I\u2019m staying on the island. I tried all kinds of ways<br \/>\nto show you a new world. Yeah!<br \/>\nYou gave me a wedge! It was my first club<br \/>\nbesides the three iron! The grip contained your father\u2019s memories. I bet you&#8217;d like to try it, right? Yeah! Since you have the wedge, I\u2019ll teach you something<br \/>\nthat you can\u2019t do with a three iron. I wanna try too! Amazing. Isn\u2019t it beautiful? It&#8217;s like the sun is melting into the sea. Putting a bench here was a great idea. Playing golf with you and watching the<br \/>\nsunset from that bench was wonderful. Right? It reminded me how fun golf can be,<br \/>\nas obvious as it may be. But you said something<br \/>\nreally harsh after that. Tonbo, what you\u2019re doing isn\u2019t golf. It&#8217;s not golf? I wanted to challenge<br \/>\nyou and your play style. Challenge? That&#8217;s right! And boy did you ever! Tsubura! -Yoko\u2019s niece.<br \/>\n-Tsubura Adaniya! Tsubura was completely different<br \/>\nfrom anyone I had played golf with before. She was so good that for the first time,<br \/>\nI felt all jittery about playing. Yes. She really gave you<br \/>\nthe challenge you needed. A three-quarter shot with a driver? I did it! Nice. Tsubura only swings from here to here. And you still send it! I always use a three-quarter swing. That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll become Japan&#8217;s best. Japan? Yeah. The coach told me<br \/>\nthat if I master the three-quarter shot, I can be the best in Japan. After that, I can learn a full shot<br \/>\nwhen I aim to conquer the world. Amazing. She&#8217;s Tonbo&#8217;s age<br \/>\nand already taking on the world. I&#8230; I don&#8217;t want to lose! Tsubura seemed half impressed<br \/>\nand half astonished by your golf. Maybe the one-legged stance was too much. What was that?! I don&#8217;t get it! She opened the club face! What are you going to do next, Tonbo? Tsubura seemed truly<br \/>\nshocked by the way you played. She was holding her head. I was just doing things like I always do. Tsubura will be your rival someday. I\u2019m convinced of that. I wonder what Tsubura thought? Same as me. She wanted you to keep playing golf. That\u2019s why she said<br \/>\nsome harsh things to you, too. Yeah! Let\u2019s keep going! What\u2019s your dream, Tonbo? Dream? What do you want to become? What are you aiming for? I want to stay on the island. Forever? What will you do? What do you mean? You&#8217;re just going to stay here? Is that your dream, Tonbo? That sounds kind of boring. Your life will be empty. This island has everything I need. Flying fish and red-bearded deer! It\u2019s not boring at all. I\u2019m fine here. I\u2019m going to live here<br \/>\nfor the rest of my life. Are you sure you\u2019re not just<br \/>\nconvincing yourself of that? Maybe you\u2019re just avoiding the fact<br \/>\nthat there\u2019s a whole world out there? There may be even more beautiful sights. I was shocked at first when she said that, but after that, I learned about Tsubura&#8217;s<br \/>\ntrue passion for golf. He&#8217;s been driving<br \/>\nthe same old truck for years. My father, that is. It&#8217;s all rusted. And the bed is full of holes. Letting your kid<br \/>\nplay golf can be expensive. I&#8217;m going to get really good at golf. I&#8217;m going to buy my dad a new truck. And there&#8217;s something<br \/>\nI want you to have, Tonbo. I was so surprised<br \/>\nwhen she gave me that club. I was convinced. -That Tsubura would be your rival&#8211;<br \/>\n-You already said that. Take care of it and use it all up. This was the idea of the person<br \/>\nwho designed the course. He figured it would<br \/>\ncreate a six-hole course. Didn\u2019t everyone on the island<br \/>\ndesign that course together? They built it, yes. But the design was done by Mr. Kuta alone. Let\u2019s go see him. The person who designed the course. Let\u2019s go together, Tonbo. Me too? At first, I was really scared. I promised to never leave the island,<br \/>\nbut you took me to Akureki Island. Scarier than my face? You&#8217;re hesitating? But you know, I was surprised when<br \/>\nyou talked about yourself. Yes. I knew I had to tell you. I used to be a professional golfer. Used to be? I lost golf, my family, and most of all my pride as a pro. But still, humans need to eat, you know. It\u2019s kind of funny. I want you to learn<br \/>\nmore about golf, Tonbo. I was surprised by your tears. I\u2019m sure it took a lot of courage<br \/>\nfor you to talk about that. That&#8217;s when I realized I had to be<br \/>\ncourageous, too. Tonbo, you&#8217;re&#8230; We went to meet<br \/>\nMr. Kuta on Akureki Island. He lived in such an incredible place. The path to his front door<br \/>\nwas like an animal&#8217;s trail! Is this really Mr. Kuta&#8217;s house? Looks like it. St. Andrews at sunset. Or maybe it was sunrise. I&#8217;ve seen it countless times on TV, but<br \/>\nthis leaves a different impression. Who&#8217;s there? I heard you built<br \/>\na small course on this island. Is that true? -Yes, I think so.<br \/>\n-Please! Would you let Tonbo play there? What a beautiful course! It\u2019s totally different from Hinoshima! You had told me, Igaiga. You said the course was&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat was it? &#8220;Supper difficult!&#8221; No! Super difficult! &#8220;Supper&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make any sense! Go! Flying fish ball! Flying fish, turn! Climb, climb! I did it! Mr. Kuta&#8217;s single-hole course<br \/>\nwas so much fun. And supper difficult. Super! You\u2019re saying that on purpose! Alright! What did you think of the island? Playing a new hole,<br \/>\nand the fastest green you&#8217;ve ever seen! How was it? It was fun. It was so fun. Taking you to Akureki Island<br \/>\nwas the right decision. I truly believe so. You know, I think I finally understand all the<br \/>\nthings you\u2019ve been telling me, Igaiga. Oh? And what did I tell you? Um&#8230; Okay, let&#8217;s move on then! Hey! Now I\u2019ve got four clubs. Igaiga, Tsubura. Mr. Kuta, too!<br \/>\nAnd of course&#8230; Mom and Dad. I&#8217;ve made a big decision. I\u2019ve made my choice. Next spring, I\u2019m leaving the island. Here&#8217;s your diploma, Tonbo. You grew so much from<br \/>\nthe end of summer to graduation. Next thing I knew you were in uniform. What\u2019s wrong, Igaiga? It was such a joy to watch you grow up. They say you get more<br \/>\nemotional as you get older. You may have gotten bigger, but I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nlike a kid like you telling me that! Stop making that scary face while crying! Don\u2019t oversleep tomorrow. Right. On this last night,<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t know what to say. Even though there were<br \/>\nso many things I wanted to talk about. It was Grandpa Gon who always<br \/>\npushed me forward and supported me. That\u2019s right. No one in the world cares<br \/>\nabout you more than Grandpa Gon. You&#8217;ve all made me who I am today! Thank you! I\u2019m off! I won\u2019t forget you! I&#8217;m your grandpa<br \/>\nand you&#8217;re my granddaughter! -Grandpa Gon.<br \/>\n-Anytime! You can come back anytime! If things get tough,<br \/>\ncome back to your old gramps! You can always return to this island! Grandpa Gon. Grandpa Gon! I\u2019m off! I\u2019m off! Grandpa Gon! Take a good look, Tonbo. That island is your hometown. It\u2019s where your story began. It&#8217;s a home you should be proud of. Take a good look. Tonbo, this is just the beginning. Yeah. It\u2019s finally happening. Look! You can see Kagoshima! Wow, the lights are incredible! -How about we get some good food?<br \/>\n-Yay! You can treat me to<br \/>\nan all-you-can-eat meal! What? Wait just a minute, Tonbo. Go! So those are the eyes of someone<br \/>\nraised only looking at the horizon? Here comes Tonbo. On the next episode of Tonbo! Tonbo&#8217;s Course Debut! Here you go! It&#8217;s delicious! What is this?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never had anything like it! You won&#8217;t find a shop like this<br \/>\non Hinoshima Island. It&#8217;s so good! The meat just melts in your mouth! You&#8217;re very kind.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never seen a customer look so happy. Have some more meat, on the house. She couldn&#8217;t stop crying on the ferry.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s great to see her finally smiling. The city at night looks like<br \/>\nit&#8217;s been flooded with light. There are more people downtown<br \/>\nthan the island&#8217;s entire population. And the transportation&#8230; It must all be so fresh<br \/>\nand exciting for Tonbo. You came to Kagoshima to get<br \/>\na cavity filled once, right? Back then, I stood behind Grandpa Gon<br \/>\nand barely noticed my surroundings. This is the bullet train? It&#8217;s so long! This is Kumamoto Station.<br \/>\nThank you for riding the bullet train. Watch your feet as you exit the train. Mr. Udo runs a driving range, right? That&#8217;s right. He let me use it a lot<br \/>\nwhen I was a pro golfer. What are they like? Well, how should I put it? The mother has a dirty mouth,<br \/>\nbut is strong-willed. The father is a passionate man<br \/>\nwho raised his kids to be pro golfers. They&#8217;re a lively bunch. You&#8217;ll see. Even at this hour, it&#8217;s still so bright! So this is where I&#8217;ll be practicing. Let&#8217;s go. There you are. Sorry we&#8217;re late. Is that her, then? I&#8217;m Tonbo Oi. It&#8217;s a pleasure to meet you. So those are the eyes of someone<br \/>\nraised only looking at the horizon? Not bad. Where is your carry bag, dear? This is everything. -What? Only four clubs?<br \/>\n-Huh? That&#8217;s right. I bet you&#8217;re eager to play. Everyone on the island<br \/>\nwould be sleeping by now, but people here are practicing golf! Are they training to be pros? I wonder? Mr. Igarashi! It&#8217;s been a while! Hey, Hajime. He&#8217;s their son. He&#8217;s the lesson pro here. So you&#8217;re Tonbo? Nice to meet ya. It&#8217;s a pleasure to meet you, too. What a shot! Let&#8217;s see what you&#8217;ve got. A driver? Igarashi was so eager to have you here. You must have some skill. But, I can&#8217;t be sure<br \/>\nuntil I see it with my own eyes. If you don&#8217;t have the skills, we&#8217;ll have to forget about taking you in. Mr. Udo, wait just a second! Okay! It&#8217;s huge! And long! It looks like real grass! But it feels totally different! Tonbo has never hit a driver before. A baseball grip? When she first used<br \/>\nan eight-iron at Kuta&#8217;s place, she picked up on its characteristics<br \/>\nwith one practice swing. Thank you very much. It&#8217;s automatic? Amazing! Where should I hit the ball? What direction should I aim? Well, how about aiming<br \/>\nright between those two steel towers? And what kind of ball? What kind? From here to there? Or more like this? Well, how about a draw? Okay! When asked to demonstrate a shot, most people would aim for the tee. I&#8217;ve never been asked about<br \/>\na draw or a fade before. Having mastered the game<br \/>\non the course instead of a driving range, Tonbo only knows<br \/>\nhow to take shots based on direction. What kind of stance is that? Does she have it confused with a fade? No. With the ball slightly inside, left shoulder raised a bit<br \/>\nand hands leading the setup, her upper body is ready to hit a draw. She moved her left hand<br \/>\nto the closed position. Incredible looping. Continue. Those are some nice sounding shots! But she&#8217;s slicing it every time. Are you sure about this? Taking care of a kid like this. All of Tonbo&#8217;s clubs are old. Even among the latest drivers,<br \/>\nthis one stands out for its length and large head. Due to the enormous volume<br \/>\nat the end of the shaft, there&#8217;s a significant force<br \/>\nwhen trying to open the face. The effect only intensifies<br \/>\nwhen you swing. I sliced it again. Masterfully designed to minimize spin, This club ensures that even if you miss,<br \/>\nthe ball won&#8217;t turn too much. For a player like Tonbo<br \/>\nwho intentionally curves the ball, this is a challenging club. I never knew drivers<br \/>\nwere so difficult to use. She sounds like<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s never hit a driver before. This is her first time at a driving range<br \/>\nand first time using a driver. Really? That&#8217;s enough. I&#8217;ll have you try again tomorrow. Okay. This will be your bedroom. It&#8217;s getting late. Why don&#8217;t you get some sleep? Thank you very much. Really? So, when will you return to the island? The next ferry to Tokara<br \/>\nis the day after tomorrow. Hajime. What was your impression of the girl? Of Tonbo? It&#8217;s true my father loves golf, but he doesn&#8217;t know<br \/>\na thing about swinging. He raised his kids to be pro<br \/>\nwith passion more than theory. Mr. Igarashi. Did you make her practice<br \/>\nhitting low balls from a high tee? I&#8217;m curious. Tonbo&#8217;s swing has a tendency<br \/>\nto either have horizontal head motion, or somewhat of a down swing. Her swing doesn&#8217;t have a scooping motion. Hajime. I&#8217;m relieved you&#8217;re here. Take care of Tonbo. Tonbo must be so disappointed. What is this? The mattress is so thick! This is so fun! This is delicious! It all looks incredible! So this is what a pancake looks like? Very good. Those who smile and savor delicious food,<br \/>\nand those who eat most will thrive. It&#8217;s so good! Our driving range<br \/>\nis open to junior players. There&#8217;s a group of youngsters<br \/>\naround the same age as you. I&#8217;ll be taking them<br \/>\nto a nearby course this afternoon. They let us play nine holes after the usual players<br \/>\nare done for the day. A course? I hear you&#8217;ve never<br \/>\nbeen on a real course before. Mr. Igarashi told me. Wanna come with us? Yes, please! There are already so many people here. Who could have done this? There&#8217;s no way<br \/>\nit was the men in this house. That&#8217;s pretty impressive!<br \/>\nAlternating between draws and fades. How about this one? Think you could give it a try? Is that a driver? Try a draw first, would you? When I try to hit it like my three iron,<br \/>\nI slice it every time. To hit a draw with this club, I&#8217;ll have to make contact like this,<br \/>\nand release like this. Well done! So she can hit a draw if she tries? So I really do have to have to aim<br \/>\nfor a strong hook to get it just right. It&#8217;s so different from all my clubs.<br \/>\nIt feels so weird! No good. When the head is easy to rotate, you can move it during your swing<br \/>\nand make better contact with the ball. The perfect driver for someone like Tonbo<br \/>\nwho uses the face to direct the ball. Over here, everyone! Meet your new friend. From Tokara&#8211; I&#8217;m Tonbo Oi! It&#8217;s a pleasure to meet y&#8211; Try this one! More drivers? Why? That&#8217;s what the boss taught us. The boss? Mr. Udo, of course! It&#8217;s normal to start with a wedge<br \/>\nand work your way up to longer clubs, but the boss always asks,<br \/>\n&#8220;What&#8217;s the first club you always use?&#8221; &#8220;Your driver!&#8221; That&#8217;s why he starts<br \/>\nour practice with drivers. &#8220;To be a good golfer,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve got to change the way you think.&#8221; Not bad, right? Sounds like him. This one, too. Thank you. Kids are brutally honest<br \/>\nwhen it comes to skill. Always judging who&#8217;s better or worse, and openly dismissing<br \/>\nanyone they consider inferior. Alright! But she isn&#8217;t fazed at all. That&#8217;s the stance. Alright! The sakura have already fallen in Tokara, but here in Kumamoto<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re in full bloom! Where&#8217;s your carry bag? This is all my stuff right here. For real? How do you plan on playing the course? Hinoki! Hinoki. Don&#8217;t forget what I told you<br \/>\nabout keeping your hands near your body. I don&#8217;t want you<br \/>\ngetting more than one over today. Got it? Yes, sir. Adaniya Tsubura will be<br \/>\nstarting high school this spring. We can&#8217;t let a freshman<br \/>\ntake the Kyuushuu Junior title. Yes, sir. Tsubura sure is famous! Hello, Hinoki! Hello. Your outfit is so cute, Hinoki! Thank you. I&#8217;ve never seen you before. Yes, right. I&#8217;m Hinoki Otoha. A sophomore in high school. Nice to meet you. I&#8217;m Tonbo Oi. Last year, Hinoki won the Kyuushuu Junior Open! She&#8217;s the best junior player<br \/>\nin the whole prefecture. Okay! Let&#8217;s go! Let&#8217;s go greet the caddy master. START ROOM Alright. Be sure to fix your divots. Yes, sir! S-sir! Hey, you. Where&#8217;s your cap? I don&#8217;t have one. She doesn&#8217;t have one? Wearing a hat is proper manners. I didn&#8217;t know that. I&#8217;ve never played golf<br \/>\nwith a hat on before. I have an extra one. You can keep it. You don&#8217;t have to do that. It&#8217;s fine. I have plenty of them. Thank you so much. So that&#8217;s how you wear it! What a beautiful green! Look at her! What&#8217;s wrong? Maybe I should give you my visor instead. Thanks. Alright! Let&#8217;s start! Wow! It&#8217;s huge! And green! And beautiful! Alright! Let&#8217;s start in order! This isn&#8217;t good. The wind carried the ball away. It&#8217;s really blowing out there. A gentle breeze. I don&#8217;t want you<br \/>\ngetting more than one over today. Nice shot! Way to go, Hinoki! Rather than trying to battle the wind, she hit it gently! Okay, Tonbo! It&#8217;s your course debut! Okay! Her course debut? She&#8217;s never played a course before? Everyone has to start somewhere. Poi! What&#8217;s she doing? Isn&#8217;t she going to tee up? She&#8217;s using a three iron? There&#8217;s no way she can hit it like that! There it is. She&#8217;s pushing the ball<br \/>\ninto the ground? Why? Hitting a three iron will be hard enough. And now she&#8217;s pushing the ball down? The left side is out of bounds. But her stance is totally pointed left! She&#8217;s going to slice it<br \/>\nif she hits like that. No&#8230; Her shoulder line is closed. She&#8217;s aiming for the right edge<br \/>\nof the fairway. Or even the rough. She&#8217;s pointed at that sakura tree. Both shoulders parallel to the horizon. If I can hit it out to that tree,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be protected from the wind. Here I go! It&#8217;s so low! The swallow maneuver! Keep rolling! Keep rolling! What? It doesn&#8217;t roll<br \/>\nlike on the island course. How&#8217;d she make it roll like that? That&#8217;s why she dug<br \/>\nthe ball into the ground. What? By positioning the ball lower, grass gets between the club<br \/>\nand ball on impact. This helps reduce some of the backspin. Is she really able to calculate that? I thought she was going to<br \/>\ntop that shot for sure. A top shot<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t make a divot, obviously. How did she hit her three iron<br \/>\nfarther than my drive? My ball is behind hers, too. The wind is getting stronger.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like the cherry winds! The cherry winds? On this island, there&#8217;s an east wind<br \/>\nthat blows during sakura season. We call it the &#8220;cherry wind&#8221;! No matter how hard it blows, it always feels so nice and smooth. I just love it! First Tokara and now Kumamoto. I get to experience it twice this year! How did you know these were east winds? It&#8217;s your first time here.<br \/>\nHow could you know the direction? Everyone knows that! The direction the sun comes up, even shadows on the ground! Anyone can do it? I have heard that golfers who are good<br \/>\nwith directions can also read the wind. It&#8217;s an acorn. The ball might move if you pick it up. There&#8217;s an acorn<br \/>\nright where my club will land. There&#8217;s no telling<br \/>\nwhere the ball will go. There&#8217;s a headwind.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll make the ball turn. I know what to do! A five wood? I&#8217;ve never seen one before. Just how old is that thing? If I hit it like this,<br \/>\nthe acorn will get in the way. I should position the ball towards<br \/>\nthe toe of the club face, and just slightly cover it. Alright. Where is she aiming?<br \/>\nWhat does she plan on doing? Here we go, Tsubura! She&#8217;s aiming for the tree? Make it over! It went over! Alright! Keep on rolling! Alright! This is too fun! What kind of golf is this? What the? How did she do that? Igaiga, what&#8217;s a &#8220;parting gift?&#8221; It&#8217;s a present we give someone<br \/>\nto see them off. See them off? I see. Do your best, Tonbo. On the next episode of Tonbo! &#8220;Igaiga&#8217;s Parting Gift&#8221;. Igaiga! Don&#8217;t say a thing, Tonbo. It&#8217;s hard for me, too. I want my parting gift now! Tonbo! Hey! Tonbo! Yeah? It&#8217;s Hinoki&#8217;s turn. Never stand in front of the next player.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a basic rule of golf. Right! Off the deck? There&#8217;s a strong headwind. The left side is out of bounds.<br \/>\nA smart choice. What a shot! Hinoki is incredible. Nice shot! Sorry about before. It&#8217;s fine. You need to focus on<br \/>\nwhat you&#8217;ll do next. There are 140 yards left. The pin is just beyond the bunker. And you only have four clubs! Thank you very much. Wait till you see this, Tonbo! A three iron? I think she&#8217;s going to hit it low<br \/>\nand roll it onto the green. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d do, too. That&#8217;s the only way<br \/>\nto get it on the green. Huh? Where is she aiming? What&#8217;s she doing? That&#8217;s a bunker shot stance. She&#8217;s crazy. Nothing she&#8217;s done today makes any sense. That&#8217;s it! A thin shot! It&#8217;ll go out of bounds! Whoa! It&#8217;s heading towards the pin! But she used a three iron! It&#8217;s not going to stop! Alright! She laid back the face of the three iron. By pointing the face toward the fairway, she avoided getting any grass<br \/>\nbetween the club and ball. By making clear contact with the ball, the amount of backspin was increased<br \/>\nfurther by the headwind. That&#8217;s why the ball stopped. I won&#8217;t lose. Hinoki seems to be getting nervous. Got it? You must not lose<br \/>\nto a first time opponent. By winning, your opponents<br \/>\nwill learn to fear you. Only those who are feared succeed in life. I can&#8217;t lose. If I do&#8230; So close. If it had gone just a little farther&#8230; A buried lie.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;ll be a bogey at the least. I wish this wind would stop.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s making things really hard. Nice birdie! With a bogey on one and three,<br \/>\nthis puts her at one over. I have to maintain my score. The wind on the island is consistent. But here it comes in and out,<br \/>\ngetting stronger, then weaker. Here we go. It&#8217;s like the wind calms down<br \/>\nevery time Tonbo hits! Yeah. So close. That puts her at two over. Even with only four clubs,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s playing just as well as Hinoki. -We&#8217;ll be blown away!<br \/>\n-Oh no! This is the most difficult hole. It&#8217;s over 400 yards. This strong wind makes it even harder. Oh? -Igaiga?<br \/>\n-Mr. Igaiga? She&#8217;s good. She&#8217;s got a soft swing<br \/>\nto control backspin. That&#8217;s right. But she&#8217;s still only at the right bunker. The wind is stronger than I thought. Just beyond those trees is a steep cliff. I could end up with<br \/>\na double bogey if I missed. Even worse than going out of bounds. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do. Tonbo. A driver? It&#8217;s my parting gift to you. Parting gift? What? Is there a problem? It&#8217;s 15,309 yen! Golf clubs sure are expensive. Mr. Igaiga, are you sure about this? Thank you! Um. That&#8217;s pretty cheap. It&#8217;s a used club, too. Can you use it? I&#8217;ll try! She&#8217;s teeing up that high,<br \/>\neven with a headwind like this? I just don&#8217;t understand her. It&#8217;s almost like a circus, the way Tonbo plays golf. She&#8217;s set the ball<br \/>\nto the top edge of the club face. Is she planning to hit with a low spin? And with a totally unfamiliar driver? She&#8217;s got some serious guts. She&#8217;s deepened her &#8216;K&#8217; shape.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s got the ball between her abs. Don&#8217;t slice it there! It&#8217;ll go off the cliff! C&#8217;mon! I hope I chose the right driver! The swallow maneuver! Alright! I did it! She hit the ball even farther than me. How? When she used a driver during practice, she was only hitting slices. Looks like I chose<br \/>\nthe right driver after all. I see. If it&#8217;s just a low-spin shot you&#8217;re after, there&#8217;s no need to tee up so high. In order to control<br \/>\nthe ball with a steep downswing angle, she created space for the club head<br \/>\nto pass through after impact. Aren&#8217;t you bothered by the wind? The island is always windy like this! Let the rain soak you,<br \/>\nand let the sunshine burn your skin. There&#8217;s no need to worry<br \/>\nabout trivial things like that. That way your heart<br \/>\nand mind will stay clear. That&#8217;s what fisherman like us<br \/>\nkeep in mind when we head out to sea. They still have about 220 yards left. Right. She might be able to make it over<br \/>\nthe first hump of the green. I have two choices. Lay it up and try for three strokes,<br \/>\nor try using my wood. I&#8217;ve got 180 yards to the front edge. I can get the ball there,<br \/>\nbut I have to watch out for the bunkers. I&#8217;m ahead by one in the last two holes. If I get a bogey now, Tonbo might tie me. I have to get a par. A three wood. Bringing her spoon to the fight, I see. That&#8217;s the right direction! Did it drop? Less backspin is stronger<br \/>\nagainst a headwind. But if there isn&#8217;t enough spin<br \/>\nto generate lift, the ball won&#8217;t travel far. Hinoki! Don&#8217;t strike the course! There are two things all golfers must do. Mind their manners and respect the course! I&#8217;m sorry. There&#8217;s another huge tree over there! She did have a good tee shot&#8230; But that tree might get in the way<br \/>\nof her next shot. This course&#8230; It&#8217;s just so much fun! That camphor tree is blocking the line<br \/>\nbetween the ball and the pin. She&#8217;ll need to aim directly over the tree<br \/>\nto avoid the headwind from the right. But by hitting it above the tree,<br \/>\nshe might hit an even stronger gust. Don&#8217;t worry. Tonbo won&#8217;t make the par. I&#8217;m going to do it Hinoki-style! Off the deck? She&#8217;s about to try something crazy again. I wish she&#8217;d just play normally for once. Getting the ball over that tree<br \/>\nwith an off the deck shot won&#8217;t be easy. What is that lazy stance? It&#8217;s like she&#8217;s attempting<br \/>\na running approach. That&#8217;s exactly what she&#8217;s doing. She opened up her left shoulder early. Is it too high? Come on! Make it through! It went through! Go! Flying fish ball! It&#8217;s going further<br \/>\nto the right with each bounce! Alright! That was no normal running approach. That&#8217;s right. She put a slight cut on it. By doing that,<br \/>\nit went higher than she expected. She has a chance for the birdie.<br \/>\nThis is no normal skill. She&#8217;s a monster. She won&#8217;t be able<br \/>\nto hit an explosion shot. That&#8217;s right. It won&#8217;t get to the pin, and even if she&#8217;s able to graze the sand,<br \/>\nthe backspin will send the ball back. This is a difficult shot. It is. She&#8217;s fallen right into the trap. The trap? Why are there only bunkers<br \/>\n50 yards from the green? What&#8217;s the reason<br \/>\nfor the three-tier green? Every element is designed with purpose. When the pin is in the frontmost tier,<br \/>\nfalling in the bunker isn&#8217;t a big deal. When the pin is in the middle tier,<br \/>\nyou want to avoid the bunker. And when the pin is in the furthest tier, the bunker must be avoided at all costs. So that means&#8230; Hinoki made a mistake by attempting<br \/>\nto get on the green with her second shot. I didn&#8217;t know so much thought<br \/>\nwent into designing a course. They must be so smart! A fifty-eight. She&#8217;s going to try for the back tier. This headwind will increase backspin. It should stop if I hit it low.<br \/>\nI hope I&#8217;m right. What is this feeling?<br \/>\nI cannot lose to that girl. The way she plays is completely different<br \/>\nfrom the golf I learned to play. Watching her play makes me feel<br \/>\nlike she&#8217;s refuting the game I know. She&#8217;s suspending the club with her back. The angle between her<br \/>\nforearm and shaft is gone. With an angle,<br \/>\nthere&#8217;d be room for extension. Extending the angle<br \/>\nwould naturally lower the club head, increasing the chance of a fat shot. She&#8217;s avoiding that. Alright. My setup is ready. That sounded great! Stop! Spin! It went off the green. Got it?<br \/>\nYou mustn&#8217;t lose to a first time opponent. It was a good shot. It was. But it got caught in the tailwind<br \/>\nand lost its backspin. Hinoki hasn&#8217;t hit a single bad shot. In fact, all of her shots have been incredible. Even so&#8230; There is a flow to the game of golf. Tonbo is using Hinoki&#8217;s approach<br \/>\nas reference for her spin and line. Alright! -Nice birdie.<br \/>\n-Nice birdie. That puts Tonbo at one over. This bogey put will put me at two over. Unlike Tonbo,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s taking the wind on her back. An incredibly difficult position<br \/>\nfor any golfer. Tonbo took the lead. She&#8217;s two ahead of Hinoki<br \/>\nat the last hole. The wind is getting stronger. The ball won&#8217;t turn in these conditions. I&#8217;ll have to aim to the right<br \/>\nof that bunker on the left. Why are you so concerned<br \/>\nwith the ball turning? Aren&#8217;t you scared? Scared? Not at all? Going out of bounds, bunkers&#8230; You&#8217;re aiming right for them! If the ball were to not turn&#8230; Aren&#8217;t you worried? I&#8217;m sorry, but I don&#8217;t understand. I&#8217;ve thought the ocean<br \/>\nat night is pretty scary, but I&#8217;ve never thought<br \/>\nof golf as being scary. Well, that was unexpected. My bad! A miss like that. Why is she laughing? How does she enjoy golf so much? I can&#8217;t&#8230; I won&#8217;t&#8230; I won&#8217;t lose! Right next to the left bunker! What a drive! I&#8217;ve got to get the birdie. If Tonbo gets a bogey,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll be tied up again. This will be one tricky downhill shot. The ball is stopped just beyond<br \/>\nthe teeing ground. To make it all the way<br \/>\nto the green on the third shot, she&#8217;ll need to focus on distance. A five wood? A five wood on a slope like that? I could never do that. I wouldn&#8217;t stand a chance. But maybe Tonbo can do it? I can&#8217;t even stand up in here! She&#8217;s in trouble now. You never know what Tonbo will do next. What? She&#8217;s shooting on her knees? I knew she couldn&#8217;t do it. I&#8217;ve never actually tried this before. She&#8217;s already on her fourth shot. Trying out a new technique<br \/>\nright on the course? What on earth is she thinking? I&#8217;ve got it this time. Come on! Oh no. It&#8217;s in the bunker. And inside a foot print, too. Alright. She really can enjoy any situation. Most people would crumble<br \/>\nunder the pressure. The wind is always blowing on Hinoshima. Even on a sunny day, it can rain any time. Because the ground is hard,<br \/>\nthe ball rolls easily. The more it rolls, the lower it goes. That&#8217;s why the ball stops on a bad line. For Tonbo, that&#8217;s just the way things are. I&#8217;ve never thought of it that way before. I opened the club face too much. Tonbo&#8217;s play style is all about riding the edge<br \/>\nof disrupting her score. That&#8217;s not only her greatest strength, it&#8217;s also her biggest weakness<br \/>\nin competitive golf. She doesn&#8217;t care about her score,<br \/>\nand she&#8217;s not afraid of ruining it. Her only focus<br \/>\nis the excitement of hitting the ball. Nice shot! Be careful not to disturb<br \/>\nthe other golfers! This ought to be interesting. There it is again.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s not worried at all. Look at that slope! And she&#8217;s right on the edge of the bunker! There&#8217;s hardly any space to put her club! This is a pretty steep slope. She does have the option<br \/>\nof moving the ball back. That is if she was worried<br \/>\nabout saving her score. The score means nothing to Tonbo.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s in it for the thrill of the shot. With that stance, her right knee<br \/>\nwill block any chance of a backswing! Alright. No way. There&#8217;s no way she can do it! She might be able to hit it that way. No way! She did it! Go! Make it over! Nice! Thank you very much! A thirty-eight? I said no more than one over! You thought you could get off<br \/>\neasy due to a little breeze? I don&#8217;t think so! Otoha&#8230; And what makes you think<br \/>\nit was just a little breeze? Igaiga. You were indoors weren&#8217;t you?<br \/>\nHow could you know? We&#8217;re going. I see there was a fresh face there today. Don&#8217;t tell me you lost to her, did you? I lost. What? She beat me at everything, Dad. What was her score? Was she under par? Forty-one. Forty-one? What kind of score is that? Your thirty-eight is much better. She doesn&#8217;t care about her swing? For Tonbo, working on her swing<br \/>\nis the last thing on her mind. She&#8217;s only concerned<br \/>\nabout where the ball goes. Where the ball goes? Unlike other players<br \/>\nconcerned about how to swing the club, Tonbo only cares about the outcome. So? What do you think? Will we be able to use her? We&#8217;ve got a real special one<br \/>\non our hands, Mr. Igarashi. PREVIEW Hinoki! What&#8217;s the matter, Tonbo? That was my first time on the course.<br \/>\nWhat am I supposed to do next? Well, going straight to the Kyushu&#8211; Take a bath or eat dinner, right? What? On the next episode of Tonbo! It Begins!<br \/>\nThe Kyushu Women&#8217;s Championship! I&#8217;ve got to write a letter to Grandpa Gon! That&#8217;s important too, I guess. I didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d end up<br \/>\nat the same school. I&#8217;m relieved! I was nervous about<br \/>\ngoing to school on my own. It&#8217;s already been a week since I left the island and high school started today. How have you all been? I&#8217;ve cried a few times<br \/>\nthinking about the island. It can get lonely at night. Especially without Grandpa Gon&#8217;s snoring! Hey, how about we exchange phone numbers? Sure! THANK YOU! Kumamoto doesn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nbanyan trees like the island does. But there are lots of big<br \/>\ncamphor trees all over the place. There&#8217;s even one at my school. Somehow,<br \/>\nthey still remind me of the island and I&#8217;m really taking a liking to them! It&#8217;s 480 yen?! Would you like to try that one? That&#8217;s OK. I bet you would make lots of money<br \/>\nif you moved here, Grandpa Gon. Even at night, there are lights all over. Everything feels new. Even so&#8230; I&#8217;m doing great. A competition? That&#8217;s right. The Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open is next month. They&#8217;re holding it at Chuo Country Club! What are you going to do, Tonbo? What do you mean? Dad! Please,<br \/>\ngive me your Chuo Country Club membership! What do you want that for? You have multiple memberships, don&#8217;t you? I do, but&#8230; Thank you! Make the membership in Tonbo&#8217;s name. You mean it&#8217;s not for you, but for Tonbo? That&#8217;s right. I&#8217;m putting Tonbo<br \/>\nin the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open! Contenders must be<br \/>\npart of the Kyushu Golf Federation and have a handicap up to 13.4. The tournament is in one month. We&#8217;ll need to submit<br \/>\nfive score cards to get the handicap. There&#8217;s not a lot of time<br \/>\nto play after school, is there? Tonbo, what time does school end? Around four, I think. Even if we drive fast, we couldn&#8217;t start until nearly five. It&#8217;ll be dark by 6:30. &#8220;So that means we would only have<br \/>\nninety minutes for one round?&#8221; We have to think about<br \/>\nthe other players, too. It&#8217;s the only choice we have. We can&#8217;t waste a single day. I&#8217;m counting on you, Fumi. Right! I&#8217;m done with school! Superintendent Nakase told me everything!<br \/>\nGet out there! Start on the in course! In course? Don&#8217;t you know? The first nine holes<br \/>\nare called the out course. Holes 10 through 18<br \/>\nare called the in course. Cool! I&#8217;ve never played<br \/>\na round from the in course before! Here I go! No practice swing? Oops. Out of bounds on the first hit. The ideal handicap is 13.4. That&#8217;s an average score of eighty-five. Can she really finish<br \/>\nwith a score like that? Hajime says that&#8217;s no problem for Tonbo. How did it go? I got a ninety. I thought you said there&#8217;s no problem! I ran out of energy halfway through. The last three holes were pitch black! It was so much fun! Don&#8217;t worry. She can recover from this. Go, Taiga! You&#8217;re still kids! Running 18 holes<br \/>\nshould be no problem for you! Right! Eighty four?! Yeah. The last hole was pitch black again. Come on, Taiga. Tonbo only has five clubs! I had to run with a caddy bag<br \/>\nthe whole time! That was torture! How about I go with her next time? Hinoki! Finish up before the sun goes down! Right! Hinoki, what are you carrying? I&#8217;m going to try playing with five clubs too! Thank you, sir! Good luck, girls! Oh? Is that her? Oh, superintendent! Yes. That&#8217;s the girl from Udo&#8217;s place. The girl from Tokara, right? You&#8217;re up, Hinoki! Nice shot! Seventy-eight! And we even finished before it got dark! Alright! That&#8217;s more like it! Way to go, Hinoki! I should have had<br \/>\nHinoki play with you all along! Sorry about before. To be honest, I couldn&#8217;t break ninety today. I can&#8217;t play with only five clubs. I was no match for Tonbo. A FEW DAYS LATER Eleven? This notice says I have a handicap of 11. That means you can<br \/>\nparticipate in the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open! Congratulations! It&#8217;s my first time. You see, this will be my first ever competition. And not only for golf. I&#8217;ve never been<br \/>\nin any kind of competition. I wonder what it&#8217;ll be like? Lots of people will be there, right? Maybe even ten! You&#8217;re going to<br \/>\nhave to think bigger than that! A real competition. I sure am excited. Who&#8217;s there? -Stay away from me!<br \/>\n-Calm down! So sorry to scare you. This is my bedroom, actually. So you finally met Tonbo. This is my daughter. I&#8217;m Nikome Udo. Nice to meet you! Can you believe she&#8217;s a pro? You don&#8217;t have to put it like that! Give that back! She was supposed to be<br \/>\noff at the women&#8217;s tour. But she didn&#8217;t make the cut<br \/>\nand came home earlier than expected. You were so down in the dumps earlier.<br \/>\nYou sure bounce back quickly! She&#8217;s just like her mother, you know. Don&#8217;t point the finger at me! Don&#8217;t compare me to Mom! And will you stop<br \/>\nwearing those lame clothes? Buy him some with your prize money! That&#8217;s not happening. You stay out of this! You guys sure to get along well! Yeah, right! Your ball height is all over the place. That means your contact is inconsistent. There&#8217;s no softness to your swing either. You&#8217;ll never make the finals at this rate. Before you fall into a rut, you should review the basics. You want me to start from there? I&#8217;m beat. Back to basics? The shaft! My brother taught me that one. He may be underestimated<br \/>\nas a professional teacher but as a player,<br \/>\nhis skills are still no match for me! Why are you hitting ground balls? Didn&#8217;t you hear what he told me? My contact point is inconsistent. Hitting ground balls helps<br \/>\ncontact consistency and also improves the angle of impact. Try to hit the center of the ball with<br \/>\nthe leading edge parallel to the ground. As you become more advanced, you try to control the ball from above. But when your form starts to break down,<br \/>\nthat can be dangerous. If you sweep the ball from the side,<br \/>\nyou can make a decent shot. There&#8217;s no need to hit down on it. That&#8217;s why I practice sweeping the ball<br \/>\nwith precision and accuracy. So says my brother! If you can do that, you can practice distance<br \/>\nwith ground balls. Next, you need to add flex to the shaft. Flex? By handling it softly. Like the old wobbly pencil trick. The one that looks like<br \/>\nan octopus&#8217; tentacles! Then, once you&#8217;ve got<br \/>\nyour contact and flex down, slightly lower the position<br \/>\nwhere you place the leading edge. Align the leading edge with the center<br \/>\nof the ball and the ground. If you can remember<br \/>\nthis soft, side approach, wet lies, depressed lies and even<br \/>\nsand lies will become much easier. I want to try it, too! Hajime, what will you do about<br \/>\nher clothes and clubs for the competition? That jersey won&#8217;t do.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have to find her some shoes, too. Don&#8217;t you have any golf shoes, Tonbo? No, I don&#8217;t. What&#8217;s your size? I&#8217;m a twenty-six. Really? That&#8217;s perfect! I&#8217;m not very tall, by I have big feet! I&#8217;ll give you a pair of mine! You&#8217;d do that for me? They&#8217;re so sparkly! I&#8217;ve got plenty of extras. Thank you! I guess that takes care<br \/>\nof the shoe problem. You take the bed. This is your bedroom, after all. It&#8217;s OK. I&#8217;m the one who dropped out<br \/>\nof the finals and came home early. But&#8230; I&#8217;m off to another tour tomorrow.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just for one night. Do you want to be a pro someday, Tonbo? I&#8217;m not sure. I understand. You still haven&#8217;t been<br \/>\nin a competition yet. That&#8217;s OK. First, you have to fall in love<br \/>\nwith the game of golf. That comes first. Fall in love with golf. When you really love something, you can&#8217;t help but do your best. Good night. Good night. Grandpa Gon. I&#8217;m so lucky. I was so scared to leave the island, but here I&#8217;m surrounded<br \/>\nby truly lovely people. Her practice is really paying off. The shaft is starting to show some flex. I got you a new bag<br \/>\nfor the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open. Toss that old one. Father? I&#8217;ll put her new clubs in it.<br \/>\nThrow away those old ones for me. That&#8217;s a big ask, Mr. Otoha. I&#8217;ll pay any disposal fees later. Why are you always doing things like this? Why don&#8217;t you ask me about it first? It&#8217;s my caddy bag, after all! I&#8217;ve never seen Hinoki fight back before. If you want to talk back to me, do it after you&#8217;ve bought something<br \/>\nwith your own money. It&#8217;s not fair, Dad. You don&#8217;t care about anything. Are you sure, Hinoki? Yes. I know it&#8217;s just a hand-me-down, but I&#8217;d be happy for you to have it. Thank you so much. I feel like a professional! She&#8217;s so easily impressed. That takes care of the bag, too. The problem is those clubs of hers. Right. With what she has now, the entire iron set is completely missing. Maybe I&#8217;ll secretly slip in<br \/>\na few more and make it a full set. She&#8217;s going to notice<br \/>\nif you put nice clubs in there. I&#8217;ve never seen this club before. I didn&#8217;t realize this was in my bag. I wonder if it was Hajime? That&#8217;s a six iron. Give it a try! You&#8217;re at the right distance, too. Hit it nice and straight! I&#8217;m not exactly sure<br \/>\nhow to hit it straight. I know. I&#8217;ll try the wobbly pencil trick! The wobbly pencil trick? It&#8217;s like the shaft is alive! This club is great! Alright! The ground shook! It&#8217;s heading straight for the sun! Nice shot! Superintendent Nakase! What a surprise. Are you practicing today? Yes. Actually, this is something<br \/>\na customer left behind. I&#8217;ve been holding onto it for five years<br \/>\nand should throw it away, but it&#8217;s a pretty nice club. It must be a bit too high level<br \/>\nfor someone like me. What a great sound! Good evening. Good evening. Would you mind giving this a try? A nine iron? I just can&#8217;t get the hang of it.<br \/>\nI wondered if something was wrong with it. This is amazing! The middle of the face is perfect shape! This club feels great! You can have it. No! You don&#8217;t have to do that! I think the club would be<br \/>\nhappier with you anyway. That makes it half a set! A half set. That&#8217;s so cool. I feel like a pro! FIRST DAY, KYUSHU WOMEN&#8217;S OPEN There&#8217;s so many people! And they&#8217;re all around my age too! The Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open hosts participants mainly in their teens. You could call this a competition<br \/>\nfor the generation of dreamers. Ichika Matsuda. Fourteen clubs. Right. Shoko Ikeuchi. Fourteen clubs as well. Yes. And Tonbo Oi. Let&#8217;s see here. What? Only seven clubs? Yep! No way. Playing with a half set? Look at that three iron!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so worn out! We&#8217;ve never had a participant like this. And one more person. That&#8217;d be me. I&#8217;m Michiko Shima. I&#8217;m Tonbo Oi. Nice to meet you. She&#8217;s like an old lady. A glove on each hand? How amateurish. Listen up, Hinoki. You have to win. Don&#8217;t let that freshman<br \/>\nTsubura Adaniya beat you. Off the course, please! Fine, fine. Please get off the green. I&#8217;ve said what I needed to. Tonbo? It really is you! Tsubura! I&#8217;m going to high school here in Kumamoto. Seriously? That&#8217;s great! You&#8217;re so brave. I&#8217;m so happy! Thank you. It&#8217;s the title contender, Tsubura Adaniya. Who&#8217;s that girl with her? Tonbo is friends with Tsubura Adaniya? How unprofessional. What? You have seven clubs? Right? Can you believe it? That&#8217;s so many more than before! I&#8217;ve slowly been getting more cubs since you gave me that five wood. Seven clubs. When we played together<br \/>\non Hinoshima, you only had two. Even then your game was so impressive. And now you have seven! Tsubura? This could be dangerous. You might take the Kyushu Women&#8217;s<br \/>\ntitle from me, Tonbo! But I don&#8217;t plan on losing today. I&#8217;ll just keep on climbing! See you later then! Nobody knows&#8230; &#8230;an incredible player<br \/>\nfrom an unknown island is here. Group seven, 8:24 start.<br \/>\nPlease report to the tee. Here we go. My first competition. I love new experiences. I left the island<br \/>\nto learn more about the world. I left the island to learn more<br \/>\nabout the game of golf I love so much. And now I&#8217;m competing! When hitting their first shot,<br \/>\nmost players focus on the landing area. Others focus on where<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t want to hit the ball. I wonder where Tonbo will hit it. Not a landing spot or out of bounds.<br \/>\nThe green? No. Even further. Athletes, please start! It&#8217;s almost as high as<br \/>\nMt. Ontake on Hinoshima. Ms. Oi, you&#8217;re up! Right! Tonbo said she&#8217;s never felt<br \/>\nfear when playing golf. But this is her first competition. With this many people watching,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s bound to get nervous. She&#8217;s not using gloves? Fly, Tonbo. Fly. Everyone gets nervous<br \/>\nfirst thing in the morning. It&#8217;s not about skill. It&#8217;s about heart. Show us what you can do, Tonbo. Igaia. Grandpa Gon. Setsu. Yoko. Bunpei. Hidaka. I&#8217;m aiming this one for the island.<br \/>\nFor all of you. Tonbo is heeling up? Tsubura, I&#8217;m feeling nervous! There&#8217;s no need to get all tense.<br \/>\nJust play like always! You&#8217;re right. I just have to be myself! -That&#8217;s right!<br \/>\n-Here I go! One-legged stance! Not that! Wait! On the next episode of Tonbo! &#8220;Career Average Stroke!&#8221; She did it. That was perfect. Everyone on the island. This is for you! That&#8217;s a huge draw. Nice shot! No way. This hole is 514 yards. At this rate&#8230; She&#8217;ll hit the green in two strokes. I&#8217;ve got to be careful. Tonbo brought her A-game today. This is it. My very first competition! She&#8217;s playing in the Open again this year? Looks like. She&#8217;s the oldest golfer<br \/>\nin the competition. I did it Shin. I made it<br \/>\nto the Open again this year. Let&#8217;s do it together, Michiko! You know I don&#8217;t have the time, dear. I&#8217;m happy as long<br \/>\nas you can enjoy yourself. I promise I&#8217;ll work<br \/>\neven harder than before. That&#8217;s nice of you to say. I want you to understand how fun it is. How great the game of golf is. Shin&#8230; Oh no. Sorry! I&#8217;m coming! There&#8217;s no need to hurry. Oh, come on. She&#8217;s still way behind us. She&#8217;s going to throw off my rhythm. Here I go! Unlike a pro tour, this is as far as you and I can go. I hit it! She&#8217;s happy just to make contact. Give me a break. Come on! It&#8217;s just cause she threw off my game! Wow. You&#8217;re about 30 yards<br \/>\nfrom the wild cherry trees. There&#8217;s probably another<br \/>\n230 yards to the green. You should use a fairway wood. Thank you. A five wood? She might be able to get<br \/>\ntwo on with a spoon. The pin is on the inside,<br \/>\nleft of the green. It&#8217;s probably closer to 260 yards away. Igaiga. That last tee shot got my heart racing. I&#8217;ve never felt that playing golf before. Use this when you<br \/>\nwant to hit the ball far. Alright! Swallow ball! Again? I didn&#8217;t think<br \/>\nsuch a low ball could go that far! No way. How does she make it roll like that? Igaiga would never let me down. Alright! N-Nice eagle. Seriously? Phew. I&#8217;ll take the double bogey. Now she&#8217;s happy about<br \/>\na double bogey on par five? That was the first time<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve ever seen an eagle up close! I wasn&#8217;t sure it was even possible! That was incredible! I even surprised myself! She said this was her<br \/>\nfirst competition, right? And she gets an eagle on the first hole? Beginner&#8217;s luck. This looks a lot like<br \/>\nhole one on the island. On the island, the ocean is on the left. I&#8217;ll hit it just like I always do. Aiming for the trees? But that&#8217;s out of bounds! It&#8217;s headed right for the trees! Over the out of bounds area. A slice? Is she hitting<br \/>\nhooks and slices on purpose? Best parting gift ever! Parting gift? Yeah. It&#8217;s 1,309 yen!<br \/>\nA parting gift from Igaiga! Igaiga? She&#8217;s trying to calm her nerves. Ugh, I smell an amateur. I&#8217;m going to hit a provisional ball! It&#8217;s safe! Thank goodness. It&#8217;s right on the fairway. I thought I prepared for this. Nice! It&#8217;s 140 yards from the edge of the green. The pin is near the front.<br \/>\nAbout five yards in. So, 145 yards in total. The pin is just at the top of a sloping<br \/>\nhump between the two bunkers. In front of that, a big slide. One hundred forty-five. A seven or eight iron<br \/>\nwould be a good choice. She doesn&#8217;t have either of those. What will she do? My only choice is to<br \/>\nhit it lightly with my six iron. A three iron? Isn&#8217;t that way too big? To the slide. Oh, looks like it&#8217;s maybe a little short.  It wasn&#8217;t too big after all. She somehow adjusted the distance by<br \/>\nhitting a low shot to land on the slope. She&#8217;s using a putter<br \/>\nthirty yards from the green? The pin is just ahead.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have to hit it softly with my wedge. But my hands&#8230; They&#8217;re still shaking. I&#8217;ll have to use a putter<br \/>\nand hope for the best. Nice! Thank you. Alright! Nice bogey. Now she&#8217;s complimenting herself. How about you, Matsuda? I got a bogey, too. I&#8217;ll have to do my best<br \/>\nwith the lie that I&#8217;ve got. There&#8217;s still a group ahead of us. I&#8217;m at five over now. I&#8217;m down a point from my last bogey! If she&#8217;s so happy about all those bogeys, what&#8217;s she doing<br \/>\nat the Open in the first place? She shouldn&#8217;t even be<br \/>\nparticipating at this level. What&#8217;s the point? I&#8217;m at three over myself. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m doing so poorly! I just can&#8217;t play under these conditions.<br \/>\nMaybe I should just give up. I&#8217;m sorry. Am I causing trouble? No. You&#8217;ve really put that one to use. It&#8217;s a keepsake. It&#8217;s my father&#8217;s club. I see. A keepsake from your father? My clubs were also a present<br \/>\nfrom my husband. His last present. The last? Yes? This is Shima. Your order has been delivered. It&#8217;s a birthday present for you.<br \/>\nYou sure do have a great husband! Let&#8217;s do it together, Michiko! I want you to understand how fun it is.<br \/>\nHow great the game of golf is! I should have played<br \/>\nwith him when I had the chance. Why didn&#8217;t I listen to him? Don&#8217;t go in there! Oh no, my present!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s covered in dust! I couldn&#8217;t bear<br \/>\nto touch it for over a year. But I finally built up the courage to<br \/>\nvisit my husband&#8217;s favorite driving range. His golf buddies offered me<br \/>\nall kinds of good advice. Do you finally see how fun golf is? I loved it right away. Golf doesn&#8217;t always go<br \/>\nthe way you think it will. It&#8217;s like getting<br \/>\ndumped by a significant other. What kind of comparison is that? It&#8217;d be easier to just give up. But if you keep at it, they&#8217;ll eventually<br \/>\nlook back at you with a smile. Those are the moments that keep you going. I think I understand<br \/>\nwhat he meant by that. The pin is just to the right.<br \/>\nAbout 148 yards. A three iron again? That club is way too much! I hit it just a little too low. I&#8217;m sure Tonbo is able to love her score. No matter what it may be. That&#8217;s the result<br \/>\nof making every shot count. Each shot is precious.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what you said, Shin. The old lady is ahead of me<br \/>\nin the hitting order! This is bad. Right to the pin! So close! That was a close one. I think Tonbo hit it<br \/>\nwith the face more open. Hers sounded much better than that. Nice one! Nice birdie! I can&#8217;t believe I fell asleep in the car! Tonbo will be almost halfway done by now! Oh no! Hey, excuse me. Yes? Tonbo, the girl with the half set. How did she do? She was last to hit each time. What? She couldn&#8217;t do it after all! No. That might be the case for tee shots, but perhaps she meant<br \/>\nTonbo was last to hit her second shot. Which one is it, Tonbo. Tell me! Tonbo! How was it? I was watching Hinoki the whole time!<br \/>\nShe nailed it on the ninth hole! That&#8217;s great, but what about you? I chipped in on the ninth hole! Sorry, I need to use the toilet! I hear she got an eagle on the first. With an eagle chip-in on the ninth,<br \/>\nthat alone puts her at three under. Right. No matter how she hit on the other<br \/>\nseven holes, that&#8217;s still a great score. A tee shot at the very end? Didn&#8217;t you get a chip-in<br \/>\non the ninth, Tonbo? It was a chip-in bogey! So what was your score then? Looks like you&#8217;re having fun. Yeah. I got forty-one on the first nine. I was able to get<br \/>\nback to the score I wanted. The score you wanted? This is actually my third time<br \/>\nin this competition. I&#8217;ve always aimed for eighty-two, and the cutoff score for the finals is always around that number. Your goal is eighty-two? Say you squeeze your way into the finals. What do you plan to do then? You&#8217;ll never join the high ranks,<br \/>\nand there are no participation prizes. So what are you doing here? It&#8217;s meaningless. Meaningless? I guess for young people like you who<br \/>\ndream of winning competitions like this, it seems silly for someone like me<br \/>\nto be in this competition. But not all pros<br \/>\nsee their dreams come true. In fact, I think more people give up<br \/>\nbefore their dreams come true. Do you think that&#8217;s meaningless, too? Is it meaningless to try<br \/>\nplaying golf in the first place? Your goal shouldn&#8217;t be to become<br \/>\nthe self you see in your dreams. You need to learn<br \/>\nwhat it takes to be that person. It depends on<br \/>\nif you can be proud of the effort or not. It&#8217;s not about whether you can fly or not. It&#8217;s about having what it takes to try. That&#8217;s what I believe. That&#8217;s how I like to play golf. But I&#8230; I don&#8217;t want to lose to them. The tee is five steps ahead, and the pin<br \/>\nis ten steps in from the green. It&#8217;s 147 yards. She can&#8217;t rely on that nine iron forever.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll have to use the six iron. What is this? It doesn&#8217;t feel right. Igaiga. Outside of the island,<br \/>\npeople may ridicule the way you play. Even so, you need to be true to yourself. Play the way you want to play,<br \/>\njust the way you are. You won&#8217;t lose. I guarantee it. Believe me. A nine iron? How does she make it roll so far? She&#8217;ll get the birdie for sure. Her fifth one today! I believe you, Igaiga. Of course I do. She hit the six iron again, but this time<br \/>\nthe ball came to a complete stop! If she makes it,<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll be her sixth birdie! I can&#8217;t take it anymore! I could never do that to my father&#8217;s club. Me too. I could never allow myself<br \/>\nto get that angry during a game. I know someone who loves golf and wanted<br \/>\nto keep playing more than anyone. Just knowing that<br \/>\nmakes me happy to play. Get over! Alright! Nice one! Thank you. If I can get the par in two putts, I&#8217;ll still have a chance<br \/>\nto make the finals! I&#8217;m glad I got to play with Ms. Shima. Looks like three putts after all. I can&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s cheering<br \/>\nafter an awful shot like that. There it is again.<br \/>\nThis doesn&#8217;t feel right. But why? It&#8217;s just like before. What&#8217;s with this girl? Did you see how weird her swing is? She&#8217;s just having beginner&#8217;s luck. No. They didn&#8217;t say anything.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just imagining things. Oh no. It&#8217;s them. Its people that are scary. I&#8217;ll go first then. What do you want? N-Nothing! I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re playing<br \/>\nto your full potential today, are you? Now that you&#8217;re frustrated,<br \/>\nit may be too late to make a come back. That&#8217;s probably why your game is off. But you know, there&#8217;s no use in trying to cover up<br \/>\nall your mistakes at once. There&#8217;s a whole 18 holes<br \/>\nto set things straight. If you&#8217;re at the end of the game<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s nothing left to do, you still have your<br \/>\nwhole life ahead of you. If you can improve<br \/>\nyour lifetime stroke average even by one point,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s something to be proud of! My lifetime average? When you get to be my age,<br \/>\nyou make a lot of mistakes. And not only in golf. I&#8217;ve made mistakes that fill<br \/>\nmy heart with deep regret. But at the end of the day,<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t turn back the clock. We have our whole lives<br \/>\nto recover from our mistakes. Each of us lies in our own unique rough. And we can&#8217;t always change that! All we can do<br \/>\nis try our best until the very end. My lifetime stroke average. I&#8217;d never thought of it that way before. I&#8217;m glad I left the island. Staying on the island would have meant<br \/>\nlaying in the rough forever. If I hadn&#8217;t taken a shot and left<br \/>\nthe island, we never would have met. If I make par, I&#8217;ll be at eighty-three. I might actually be able<br \/>\nto make the finals. You can do this. Get in the hole! Nice par, Ms. Shima. Thanks. Will you look at that! Wow! You won the Japan Junior Cup.<br \/>\nRight, Tsubura? I&#8217;m going to win the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open<br \/>\nand keep climbing to the top! On the next episode of Tonbo!<br \/>\nMy Rival is the Title Holder! I won once before too, you know!<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Tonbo Farewell Cup&#8221; on Hinoshima! I want to play in that one, too! Deal! Tonbo Oi? Who&#8217;s that? I hear this is her first tournament. Five under on her first tournament? Apparently she did it with<br \/>\nonly half a set of clubs, too! Tonbo is having quite the debut today! She did.<br \/>\nBetter than we could have imagined. How about Tsubura Adaniya? She should be<br \/>\nable to beat Tonbo&#8217;s 67. The new scores are up! Tsubura is in second! It looks like Tsubura Adaniya<br \/>\nis sitting at two under. The out course group just finished. The in course group will finish last. If a player using only a half set<br \/>\nwins this tournament it&#8217;ll be big news. Tsubura Adaniya is in second, and Hinoki Otaha is in third.  They&#8217;re all notable players. I&#8217;m hitting! Aw, no. That&#8217;s not a good place<br \/>\nto be on the last hole.  She&#8217;s not going to be<br \/>\nhappy about that one. I hope you can make the finals! Yeah. I didn&#8217;t make the last two years. Before he died, my husband said<br \/>\nhe wished to play in the finals. That&#8217;s why, I want to do it for his sake. Stop it! Tsubura? Everyone is so surprised! Everyone&#8217;s making a big commotion about<br \/>\nthe new girl playing with a half set! It&#8217;s no surprise to me! That&#8217;s a lie, of course. I can&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s at five under. Having two new irons in my bag<br \/>\nmade it much easier to play. I think I just got lucky. I&#8217;ve never gotten a score<br \/>\nlike this before! The last group has just returned. The top positions will<br \/>\nprobably stay the same. The pairings tomorrow<br \/>\nwill be based on current standings, so we&#8217;ll probably be<br \/>\nplaying together tomorrow. I get to play with you? Wahoo! The last group&#8217;s scores are going up. I&#8217;m in 99th place with current score. They added another name above mine.<br \/>\nThat puts me in one hundredth place One hundredth place, again. I&#8217;m in last place. Is that her? She hit an eight on the first hole. Maybe I have a chance. Sixty-nine? Another player with a score<br \/>\nin the sixties at the very end! A sixty-nine with a double par? That puts her at seven under. She played with a base of sixty-five? Ms. Shima. Have a line drawn above<br \/>\nyour name like that is like being told that<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re good for nothing. It really hurts. But&#8230; It&#8217;s like my husband said. Golf never goes the way you want it to. I&#8217;ll do my best to prepare again<br \/>\nfor next year. That&#8217;s how much I love golf. I&#8217;m so glad I got to play<br \/>\nwith you, Ms. Shima. I&#8217;d love to play with you again some day. Thank you, Tonbo. This is Toshima Village<br \/>\nDisaster Management. We have an announcement to make. About the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open<br \/>\nthat began today&#8211; -It&#8217;s a golf tournament, and&#8211;<br \/>\n-Hurry up and say the important stuff! Right. A resident of this island and a<br \/>\nstudent at Tsuboi High school&#8230; You&#8217;re taking way too long! Everyone! Tonbo is in first place at her<br \/>\nfirst ever tournament! Hey! I wanted to say it!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the one who heard it first, after all! Everyone! This calls for a celebration! Today was only the first day!<br \/>\nThe tournament is three days long! That doesn&#8217;t change the need to celebrate!<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s drink! Go Tonbo! You didn&#8217;t let me talk at all! Because you took too long with your<br \/>\nbabbling nonsense! Hey. You could at least<br \/>\nturn the microphone off. Right! Of course, Yoko! Tonbo is in first, and Tsubura is in third. Leaving the island and<br \/>\ncompeting against so many people&#8230; I wonder how it feels for Tonbo? Don&#8217;t worry!<br \/>\nTonbo&#8217;s doing just fine, I&#8217;m sure. That&#8217;s right. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s hard at work<br \/>\npracticing for tomorrow. Do you think it will dry by tomorrow? Those are the only clothes<br \/>\nshe has for the tournament. What do you mean? If they don&#8217;t dry in time<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll lend her mine! Tonbo! Which one do you like? Leave the poor girl alone. Seriously. What&#8217;d you say? Ema Kurisu. Ema? Now I remember! What is it? Ema Kurisu!<br \/>\nI knew I&#8217;d heard of her before. Is she famous? She&#8217;s an incredibly talented title holder. Has it already been ten years? There&#8217;s a girl who&#8217;s been winning<br \/>\nworld tournaments since she was twelve. A Japanese-American girl. I think her name was Ema Kurisu. A world junior champion? However, after that,<br \/>\n her name stopped coming up. What has she been doing<br \/>\nfor the last decade? It sure is crowded. There&#8217;s a spot. A shark bite? I&#8217;ve seen a shark bite wound<br \/>\non the island before. Hers looks the same. She&#8217;s left-handed? I had heard about her championships,<br \/>\nbut never that she was a lefty. But the wedge she was just using<br \/>\nwas a right-handed club. Wait, what? Her 58 and putter are right handed,<br \/>\nbut everything else is left handed? What is that stance? She&#8217;s putting her weight<br \/>\non her right foot. That&#8217;s called a one-axis swing. Even so, that&#8217;s an interesting way<br \/>\nto apply her weight. Thank goodness! Will my daughter ever be<br \/>\nable to play golf again? Golf? I&#8217;m still not positive<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll ever walk again. We have to start there first. I can&#8217;t hit it as far as I used to. My left leg&#8230; Dad. I want to use lefty clubs. If I use these maybe I can play again. Why are your 58 and putter right-handed? I want to play the way I always have. With small techniques, there shouldn&#8217;t be<br \/>\ntoo much stress on my left ankle. When I use bigger clubs my left ankle can&#8217;t hold the weight. &#8220;No weight shifting is<br \/>\nrequired during back swing.&#8221; If I do this I&#8217;ll be able to swing<br \/>\nwithout putting weight on my left leg! More. More. I&#8217;ve got to put more effort in. Maybe then I can finally compete again. It took ten long years, but I&#8217;m finally competing again. My efforts paid off. You&#8217;ve played this course<br \/>\nhundreds of times! You&#8217;ve played this course<br \/>\nmore than anyone else here. Hitting under par should be no issue. I don&#8217;t want you to get a stroke over 69. You&#8217;re getting first place today. Got it? My father will never be satisfied. Are you listening, Hinoki? I&#8217;m not Hinoki. Golf would be easy if you<br \/>\ncould improve by being scolded. You can&#8217;t control your score. If you don&#8217;t understand that, you don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhave the right to be scolding others. I don&#8217;t like your attitude! Tonbo! Ouch. She reminds me of how<br \/>\nI used to enjoy playing golf. Tsubura! I&#8217;ll hit with you. She doesn&#8217;t have the attitude of<br \/>\nsomeone about to compete in a tournament. Tonbo. When we played golf<br \/>\non the island it was for fun, but this is different. I want to make my dreams come true. I&#8217;m going to win and get into the Japan<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s Amateur Open. The Japan Women&#8217;s Amateur? I&#8217;ll win the Amateur Open, and prove my true talent. The Japan Junior and Japan Amateur Open. With those two big titles,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be able to make it to the pros. After that, I&#8217;ll enter a pro tournament and win. I&#8217;ll win a pro tournament<br \/>\nwhile I&#8217;m still an amateur, and join the pros myself. What about you, Tonbo? Me? What kind of future do you want in golf? Well, for me, I left the island because<br \/>\nI wanted to learn more about golf. But I didn&#8217;t think I could do it. You didn&#8217;t? You and all the other girls<br \/>\nhave goals and dreams.  You are all aiming<br \/>\nto be the best golfers you can be. I thought that without having goals or<br \/>\ndreams like you do,  maybe I shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nbe playing golf at all. I thought maybe I wasn&#8217;t serious enough. But you know? Yesterday I got to play<br \/>\nwith a woman named Ms. Shima. She made me realize I was wrong. The club! It&#8217;s okay to play golf<br \/>\njust because you like it. It&#8217;s okay to push yourself to get better. Just having the idea alone is<br \/>\nenough reason to put your all into golf. Tonbo has evolved significantly since she<br \/>\ngot here, in both technique and spirit. Excuse me. Thanks for talking to my father. This is Hinoki Otoha. She&#8217;s a grade above<br \/>\nme in high school. I know who she is. She was last year&#8217;s<br \/>\nKyushu Junior Champion. I&#8217;m not myself. Every morning I try to be myself, but I can never quite do it. My father scolds me to be myself. I&#8217;ve heard of that. Your motto, right? Doing your best<br \/>\nso that tomorrow you&#8217;ll be your true self. It means you&#8217;ll do better tomorrow, right? Well&#8230; I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s right. You don&#8217;t? &#8220;I&#8217;ll be myself tomorrow.&#8221; You say that, thinking you&#8217;ll do better. But that means you&#8217;ll never do your best. You&#8217;ll be saying that motto forever. It&#8217;s like people who say<br \/>\n&#8220;if I had only tried my best.&#8221; They say that forever<br \/>\nand never actually try. They blame their inability on others. Tsubura&#8230; Only you can be responsible for becoming<br \/>\nwho you want to be. It&#8217;s still early, but why<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t we get ready to start? I&#8217;ve got to be my<br \/>\ntrue self starting today! Will the 9:46 group please<br \/>\nreport to the tee? Once again, my name is Hata and<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be your caddy today. I look forward to playing with you. Thank you. The Kyushu Junior Champion. The Japan Junior Champion. And the World Junior Champion. A high-skilled group<br \/>\nfitting for today&#8217;s order! And among the greats, there&#8217;s Tonbo. Without any titles to her name, there&#8217;s no telling<br \/>\nhow far her ability goes. What are you looking at? I can see a kobu spinning a web. There won&#8217;t be any wind today,<br \/>\njust like yesterday. Kobu? That&#8217;s what we call spiders back on the<br \/>\nisland. They only spin webs on days<br \/>\nwhen the wind isn&#8217;t too strong. That&#8217;s what Gon always says. Gon? Is that some kind of bug, too? That&#8217;s my grandpa! He&#8217;s not a bug! No wind today, either. The tee is higher than usual. Her grip is higher than usual, too. Her stance is wider, too.<br \/>\nHer distance from the ball, longer. Her backswing is bigger. She hit it as far as Tonbo did yesterday. She&#8217;s added a bit more to everything.<br \/>\nShe usually hits the ball far but I&#8217;ve never seen Hinoki swing<br \/>\nlike that first thing in the morning. Maybe I got through to her. My third shot will be from the left side<br \/>\nof the fairway. I want to hit my second shot from the<br \/>\nright side.  That means I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nhave to tee up from the left. A tee shot like that will have<br \/>\nthe other players running scared! Please remain quiet. I have 420 yards to the third shot.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have to get there in two. There&#8217;s no need to be scared. What kind of weak swing is that? That&#8217;s what you call a good shot. Wow! I haven&#8217;t seen<br \/>\nyou do that in a while! What was it called again? Igaiga told me once. That&#8217;s it! The Great One Pattern! Good position. She is the World Junior Champion,<br \/>\nafter all. She gets it. A one-axis swing  is characterized by aiming<br \/>\nthe sternum away from the ball. What a bounce! Good shot. Thanks. The tee won&#8217;t go in easily.<br \/>\nIs it from all the sunshine recently? She raised the tee. She&#8217;s going for a big shot. A hand-first stance with a driver?  Setting the ball in the middle?<br \/>\nThat will loft it like a vertical wall. She&#8217;s going to use the<br \/>\ntop half of the club face? She dropped her stance! Third one from the right! Go! Sunshine Shot! How does she make it roll like that? The third line from the right. The mowing lines of the fairway. Mowing lines? According to an old pro, on a long hole, you should<br \/>\naim for a bright spot on the fairway. It&#8217;s an old technique. By a bright spot, he meant areas of the fairway<br \/>\nthat appear brighter in color. These are the mowing lines. Alright! She&#8217;s lined up with Ema Kurisu&#8217;s ball! I didn&#8217;t think a low shot like that<br \/>\nwould travel that far! Amazing! Tonbo took into account<br \/>\nthe ground being dry and hard and hit a shot she knew would roll far. How was she able to calculate that? I was actually aiming for the fifth one! Igaiga! Everyone! Today&#8217;s a new day! Tonbo. I can&#8217;t give you advice<br \/>\nlike Mr. Igarashi does. Thank you! It&#8217;s okay, Hajime!<br \/>\nYou have something that Igaiga doesn&#8217;t. I do? Really? On the next episode of Tonbo! Jack-in-the-box Golf Tonbo! What is it that I have? Your face isn&#8217;t scary! Oh, come on! Alright. On the first hole<br \/>\nI can gauge my condition while avoiding using up<br \/>\ntoo much energy. It looks like an approach shot.<br \/>\nNo, more like a super long putt. Tsubura is always on point! It looks like it&#8217;s 253 yards to the edge. A spoon? So she&#8217;s going to try for two shots. You need to be responsible<br \/>\nfor making your own dreams come true. Hinoki is fired up from what<br \/>\nI told her before we started. I can sense the momentum<br \/>\nin her practice swings. She&#8217;s going to use her<br \/>\nfull power from the start. A 253 yard shot would come up just short. She can&#8217;t hit it that far.<br \/>\nIf that&#8217;s the case, she&#8217;ll aim to drop on the fairway  and hope that the ball rolls onto the<br \/>\ngreen. That&#8217;s what she&#8217;s planning. Go. Get there. So close! Just a little farther left<br \/>\nand it would have been perfect. What have I done? It won&#8217;t be easy<br \/>\ngetting out of that bunker. She used some energy for this one, and she&#8217;ll use even more<br \/>\nfor the next shot, too. Amazing. They&#8217;re already about 210 yards<br \/>\naway from the green edge. For her first and second shots, She chose simple shots<br \/>\nthat would allow her to preserve energy. No-pressure shots that would<br \/>\ntake her 240 yards in two turns. -Is my ball ahead?<br \/>\n-No. Mine went just a bit farther. I won&#8217;t make the eagle. But I still have a<br \/>\na chance to make the birdie. Knowing that I&#8217;m guaranteed par at worst,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to get that birdie. Is it my turn yet? I&#8217;m so excited! I&#8217;ve made it this far.<br \/>\nI can send the ball to the green. I&#8217;ll have to aim near the pin to make the<br \/>\neagle. But I have to avoid the bunker. To get the birdie,  she&#8217;ll aim for the center<br \/>\nleft of the pin. She&#8217;ll take it in two strokes.<br \/>\nShe might even get it in one. She could also get an eagle. That&#8217;s how I&#8217;d do it. This is getting tense. She&#8217;s so cool! Nice one! Amazing! Most players don&#8217;t celebrate<br \/>\nwhen their opponent makes a good shot. Alright. I&#8217;m up. How should I do this? I have so many options. Hey, do you mind? There&#8217;s no telling what<br \/>\nTonbo might do next. Watching her golf is just like<br \/>\nplaying with a Jack-in-the-box! I&#8217;ll use Tsubura for this one! This club. I named it Tsubura! That&#8217;s the club I gave her, you see. She&#8217;s aiming to the left. I can&#8217;t tell what she&#8217;s trying<br \/>\nto do with that stance. It could go either right or left. How will she hit it? Where will it go? It&#8217;s a ladybug! I didn&#8217;t mean to do that. What was she thinking? Do you plan on hitting it from there?<br \/>\nYou can try again, you know. I know, I just thought I might hit it! I can&#8217;t believe it. The way she plays golf<br \/>\nreminds me of a little child. 26, 27, 28 It rolled a little farther than expected. 72 yards to the edge and 79 to the pin. I&#8217;ll use this and aim right for the pin. This girl is clever. She&#8217;s been aiming for this<br \/>\nthird shot position since her tee shot. There&#8217;s nothing standing<br \/>\nbetween her and the pin. She was able to set herself up<br \/>\nfor this position perfectly. And also, I can sense how that her shoulder<br \/>\nmovements are on point. Stop jumping around like a bunny!<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re distracting me! I was trying to see where my ball is! Sorry! Jeez. You&#8217;re funny, Tonbo. Just around 80 yards. She could land it right at the pin. But if she&#8217;s thinking<br \/>\nabout her fourth shot, She&#8217;ll aim for the area that leaves a<br \/>\nstraight putt on the final stretch. A gimme. A gimme dead in the center! Alright! Way to go, Tsubura!<br \/>\nTake the birdie! Where&#8217;s my ball? She was able to line up a birdie<br \/>\nwhile preserving her mental stamina. There it is! If she hopes to line up with the pin<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll aim for the green edge. That doesn&#8217;t leave<br \/>\nmuch room between the bunker. If she comes up short,<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll go in the bunker. If it goes in, she&#8217;ll get a bogey. She knows better than to<br \/>\naim for the green edge. She&#8217;s going for it.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll lob the ball right to the edge. Tonbo isn&#8217;t thinking<br \/>\nabout her score at all. She only has the excitement of the shot. Okay. She squared up the club face? Lining the ball to the right? The ball&#8217;s lost its power. Very interesting. Oh no! A sprinkler? I didn&#8217;t notice it<br \/>\nhidden behind the grass! The ball landed right<br \/>\nwhere I was aiming, too! She really was aiming there? I can&#8217;t believe she<br \/>\naimed for such a tricky spot! No professional player would ever risk<br \/>\ndoing something like that. It&#8217;s too risky. Tonbo&#8217;s greatest strength<br \/>\nis her fearlessness. It&#8217;s also<br \/>\nher greatest weakness. She doesn&#8217;t think about her mistakes. Her shot was perfect,<br \/>\nbut it ended up a failure. This will be a bogey for Tonbo. Hinoki still has a chance for a birdie. If she wants to guarantee a birdie, she&#8217;ll have to land the ball<br \/>\nright on the inside of the green. She doesn&#8217;t want to come up short. The thought of not making it on the green<br \/>\n will definitely affect her shot. She&#8217;ll try to hit it past the pin. It&#8217;s on the green, A downhill slice line. They&#8217;re probably thinking<br \/>\nthis putt won&#8217;t be easy to make. You have to enter the bunker<br \/>\nfrom the lowest point! You can&#8217;t just jump in! Sorry! She sure gets yelled at a lot. She won&#8217;t be making anymore shots that<br \/>\nwould risk getting in the bunker. She&#8217;s reached her limit already. Her fingers are almost touching the shaft! That hand rate&#8230; That stance is &#8230;! I knew it! The shot she showed me on Hinoshima! It&#8217;s close. Oh no. The ball stopped. The bunkers on Hinoshima<br \/>\nhave steeper slopes. She was good at steep slopes near the pin. She also had a following wind. She tried the same thing here<br \/>\nand the ball stopped. Nice touch! Nice birdie! It breaks more at the end than I thought. I see. Hinoki didn&#8217;t overshoot.<br \/>\nShe was trying to hit it that far. Last one. If she overshoots it will land<br \/>\nin line with my first putt. That&#8217;s what she was aiming for. Now&#8217;s my chance. Nice birdie! I thought she was a goodie two shoes who<br \/>\ndid whatever her dad says. Why? Isn&#8217;t she a clever one. She seems to have experience in competing. That&#8217;s a birdie! Amazing! Everyone is so good! What a group! Okay. It&#8217;s my turn! Alright, nice! It&#8217;s been an hour. They&#8217;ll be on the fifth<br \/>\nhole soon. That&#8217;s close to here. Where are you going, Mr. Otoha? I&#8217;m going to see how Hinoki&#8217;s doing. You can&#8217;t do that. No one is allowed on the course<br \/>\nbesides the players. Nice shot! A birdie on one, two and four.  I have to keep my honor. Perhaps I got a little too heated up. She&#8217;s already at three under. You&#8217;ve got a beautiful swing. Yeah! Hinoki&#8217;s swing is so cool! Whoa! Perfectly straight again! A beautiful swing makes a beautiful shot. That&#8217;s the kind of golfer I wanted to be. That&#8217;s the path that I travelled. Keep going! Nice shot! Ema is currently at four under. After getting one bogey, she got a double<br \/>\nbogey on the third hole Her score has dropped by three,<br \/>\nputting her at two under. Ema? What&#8217;s wrong? It happens whenever I hear a big splash. In America, all sorts of<br \/>\nscary creatures live in the swamps. So that&#8217;s probably why<br \/>\nI react that way. You mean, alligators? After I won the World Junior Open&#8230; &#8230;it took me ten years. We moved to Japan for my father&#8217;s job, but I was finally able to compete again. But why? Why did you do all that just for golf? Why? I don&#8217;t get it. After an injury like that, after being so<br \/>\nscared. Even walking must have been hard. There was someone on the island<br \/>\nwho had scars just like Ema&#8217;s. He was attacked by a shark while fishing. But even so, he&#8217;s still fishing today. Why? Isn&#8217;t he scared? I&#8217;m sure he is, but he<br \/>\nloves fishing too much. The love overcomes the fear. Same for me. If something were to take<br \/>\ngolf away from me, I&#8217;d do the same. I&#8217;d do my best to be able to play again. I lost my ability to swing and<br \/>\nmake shots as beautiful as yours. However, it hasn&#8217;t been all bad. I&#8217;m happy to be able to play at all. I&#8217;m grateful that I&#8217;m able to play golf. I think that might be<br \/>\nmy greatest strength. Everyone&#8217;s playing golf<br \/>\nbecause they like it. Do I feel the same way? I&#8230; I told Hinoki she&#8217;s got to<br \/>\ntake the top ranking today. But sir&#8230; I&#8217;ve got to get out and<br \/>\nencourage her to get there. Mr. Otoha. Why do you do it? Why are you so determined to<br \/>\nmake Hinoki number one? When I was young, I would go around peeking<br \/>\nunderneath vending machines trying to find spare change<br \/>\nthat people had dropped. I got down on my hands and knees<br \/>\nand looked for hours. People who claim that<br \/>\nmoney isn&#8217;t everything clearly have never known<br \/>\n what it&#8217;s like to be poor. It&#8217;s a miserable problem.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why I made a promise. A promise to be rich. A promise to take first place<br \/>\nand the prize money. People like to talk big.  Winning isn&#8217;t everything, they say.  They&#8217;re wrong. Only those who aim for first place<br \/>\ncan take the ultimate prize. Everyone wants to be a winner.  But when they know they can&#8217;t do it,<br \/>\nthey claim it&#8217;s the effort that counted. But that&#8217;s not how I see it. It&#8217;s the results that matter. Those who show results<br \/>\nare the ones who receive praise. It turned too much. In the world of golf, there are players<br \/>\nwho lack good sportsmanship, yet they still gain fans, status,<br \/>\nand great wealth through their victory. Did you find it? Yes. I&#8217;m so glad! Next is Tonbo. On the other hand, there are golfers who adhere to etiquette<br \/>\nand have a good attitude, yet never win. There are countless golfers like that. I have to get first place. Don&#8217;t you agree, Hajime? Your path to the pros was<br \/>\nclosed off when you got cold feet. Since then you haven&#8217;t been able<br \/>\nto make any progress. Mr. Otoha. Even so, even at my lowest,<br \/>\nI never stole from anyone. That&#8217;s something I&#8217;m proud of. Looks good. She made it. I have to get first place.<br \/>\nIf I don&#8217;t get first&#8230; my father will&#8230; Have you found your ball, Tonbo? Here it is! The ball moved! Tsubura, what am I supposed to do again? If it&#8217;s your fault the ball moved, you lose a stroke and<br \/>\nmove it back to where it was. Got it. I&#8217;ll put it back. Nice birdie. -Nice birdie.<br \/>\n-Nice birdie. What&#8217;s your score? Four under. I&#8217;m tied for first. I&#8217;ve got to take first place. The ball moved again! Tsubura! If it&#8217;s your fault the ball moved, you lose one stroke and put it back. That&#8217;s right. Why? Why is she so calm? Why can&#8217;t I be like that? Alright. What was that? The Grandpa Gon Boat Shot! Alright! Her score is in shambles, but I&#8217;ve never<br \/>\nseen a more incredible golfer. The waves were crazy out there. What a ride. Tonbo! Mr. Igarashi is coming now. Coming here? Where is he now? He&#8217;s in Kagoshima. He said he couldn&#8217;t get a hold of you. My battery died.<br \/>\nI forgot to charge it. If he&#8217;s in Kagoshima now, he should be about two hours. But why is he coming here? He heard you took the top on the first day<br \/>\nand wanted to see you. I see. Two more hours. Oh? I thought she&#8217;d be happier. Igaiga is coming! I should have tried harder today. I hit a 77. Ten strokes off yesterday&#8217;s score. He would have been so happy<br \/>\nif I had made the top again today. But&#8230; that means he&#8217;ll<br \/>\nbe there tomorrow too. If I do my best tomorrow I can make him<br \/>\nhappy! Alright! I&#8217;ve got this! Someone&#8217;s excited. She&#8217;s got a good reason. Tonbo! What are you doing here?<br \/>\nYou came to get me? You&#8217;re doing great. Why am I crying? Tonbo. Thanks for coming, Igaiga. Don&#8217;t sound so distant.<br \/>\nI know things haven&#8217;t been easy for you. Igaiga. On the next episode of Tonbo! &#8220;The Tossing and Turning Winds&#8221; You&#8217;re making me so proud! Igaiga? Your face is scary. I&#8217;m crying, okay? Grandpa Gon&#8217;s boat shot? You did what? During a round? Yes. I did. Nice! Now that&#8217;s what I like to hear! That&#8217;s the Tonbo I know. I can just imagine their<br \/>\nfaces when they saw that! It&#8217;s not that funny! Tonbo hasn&#8217;t changed at all. But&#8230; Tonbo. I want to see you take a shot. Okay. Let&#8217;s go. Don&#8217;t let your guard down just yet. It&#8217;s still only day two. If you&#8217;re not in first place<br \/>\nat the end it&#8217;ll all be for nothing! Hinoki. She&#8217;s still practicing. Oh. You&#8217;re starting now? You&#8217;re just grasping at straws. Hinoki is six strokes ahead of you. You&#8217;re out of luck, I&#8217;m afraid. Let&#8217;s go home. Right. See you tomorrow! Tonbo. I&#8217;m sorry. I have to win. I must. Forgive me. So you&#8217;ve added a six<br \/>\nand nine iron to your bag? Who gave them to her? My dad gave her the six iron, and she got the nine iron<br \/>\n from Mr. Nakase at the country club. Three, six, nine. A wedge. I&#8217;d say that counts<br \/>\nas a full set for Tonbo! This will be a great setup for her. Here I go. Starting with a swallow ball! Osprey ball! A thin slice! Hajime. You haven&#8217;t trained her at all. Why? I wasn&#8217;t able to. I worry that if she adjusts even one thing she&#8217;ll end up having to adjust<br \/>\nevery aspect of her game I fear that would throw Tonbo&#8217;s game off entirely. I want her to keep playing<br \/>\nwith a free spirit. Hajime. I&#8217;m glad I put her in your care. However, since coming to Kumamoto, Tonbo<br \/>\nhas been hitting from the mat every day. That&#8217;s starting to show in her swing. Practice mats  become worn down in the center, causing the left edge<br \/>\nto be slightly elevated. Placing the ball there creates a slight<br \/>\nuphill lie for the left foot. That creates a small space<br \/>\nbetween the ground and the ball. This is causing Tonbo&#8217;s swing to relax. Due to the slope of the mat, the right eye<br \/>\nis about half a ball&#8217;s width lower and the bridge of her nose<br \/>\ntilts to the right. Tonbo. Hit here. Okay. She&#8217;s aligned her eyes<br \/>\nwith the tilt of the turf.  She instinctively<br \/>\nadjusts her setup to match the lie. This is one of Tonbo&#8217;s many skills. What changed? What did he change? The trajectory got a bit lower. Place the ball<br \/>\nwherever you like this time. Do you have a hat? Yeah, I have one. Hinoki gave it to me. Make sure both ends<br \/>\nof the bill are parallel. Just make sure<br \/>\nthe right end isn&#8217;t lower. It&#8217;s okay if the left side is lower. Got it. Alright. Go! The sound changed. Igarashi has been watching her for solong.<br \/>\nHe knows just what to adjust. Tonbo. Try hitting barefoot. It tickles. I knew it. She&#8217;s lifting her left big toe. The toe she used to keep her grip<br \/>\non the wet floor of the fishing boat. Tonbo. Remember that tool you used<br \/>\nto dispatch octopi and fish? Yeah. Imagine you&#8217;re using that tool to pin<br \/>\nyour toes to the ground when you hit. That sounds painful! It&#8217;s just pretend! We&#8217;re not actually using it. You mean I should stay still? Right. In a golf swing, you must move some parts of your body<br \/>\nand keep others perfectly still. The toes of your left foot mustn&#8217;t move. Right. Got it. Just like this. The sound changed again. That&#8217;s it. Even when you hit a fade,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t forget to keep track of your toes. You&#8217;ve got to focus on your feet,<br \/>\nnot just your hips. Right! What is it? Nothing. I just thought, you should be the one giving her lessons. I just made a few minor adjustments. If she puts too much strain<br \/>\non her body to control her swing, she&#8217;ll be feeling it tomorrow. Tomorrow? You should lower the net down tonight. The wind might start<br \/>\nblowing in the morning. Ready to call it a night? Yeah. The weather report didn&#8217;t mention that. They mentioned rain. Not the wind. Igaiga. He&#8217;s becoming more like Grandpa Gon! Stay here tonight. No, I couldn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s far too generous of you. Because of all those foolish things you did<br \/>\nwhen you were playing for us, my husband&#8217;s reputation<br \/>\nwas dragged through the mud. Well, it&#8217;s no matter.<br \/>\nWater under the bridge. I couldn&#8217;t. You&#8217;re taking care of Tonbo, too I couldn&#8217;t possibly ask of anything more. I couldn&#8217;t possibly ask you<br \/>\nto take care of me, too. -I couldn&#8217;t.<br \/>\n-You&#8217;re already changing in pajamas! How&#8217;s Grandpa Gon doing?<br \/>\nIs he still sticking to only three drinks? I can&#8217;t speak on his drinking, but he&#8217;s<br \/>\ndoing just fine. It&#8217;s almost flying fish season, too. The busiest time of the year. I won&#8217;t be able to help him fillet the<br \/>\nfish this year. Tonbo. About tomorrow, strong winds will dry out the green. -That&#8217;s why&#8211;<br \/>\n-How&#8217;s Setsu-ba? I wish I could help her at the inn. Making dinner by herself must be tough. She&#8217;s persevering like she always does. What about Mom and Dad&#8217;s grave? It&#8217;s lined with flowers every day. I visit from time to time. I see. Thank you. Tonbo looked so happy. Mr. Igarashi is like<br \/>\na father to her, after all. Really? Wataru is still playing golf? Bunpei must be getting nervous! Bunpei is doing just fine, too. Bunpei and Yoko, are they getting along? I wonder if he still thinks of her while he eats an ice cream after visiting<br \/>\nthe hot springs? Huh? Igaiga? Thank you. Thank you for coming. Nikome! Nana! Momoko! We&#8217;re in the same group this week! I&#8217;m looking forward to it. I am too! By the way, how&#8217;s that girl doing? She was in first place on the first day, but fell off on the second. I think she&#8217;s in<br \/>\nfourth place with an even par. She&#8217;s only got seven, after all. Seven? Seven of what? Seven clubs! Huh? What? It&#8217;s the final day.  Hinoki Otoha is at six<br \/>\nunder. Tsubura Adaniya and Ema Kurisu<br \/>\nare both at five under. They&#8217;re the only three under par. Tonbo Oi is in fourth place,<br \/>\nfive strokes behind with an even par. It seems like one of the<br \/>\ntop three will likely take the win. Although Tonbo Oi and<br \/>\nher half set of clubs taking the victory at the very end would have made for a better story. It really is windy today! Shut up! Your weather report was way off. You really are like Grandpa Gon! I&#8217;m off! Tombo is acting different today.<br \/>\nI know what it must be. What is it? Nothing. Excuse me, could I get today&#8217;s pin sheet? They saved the most<br \/>\ndifficult holes for the last day. There are a lot of pins<br \/>\nplaced near bunkers. Emma is hitting the ball quite high. Proof that her spin is incredible. She can<br \/>\nmake the ball stop better than anyone. She&#8217;ll have the best chance<br \/>\nwith today&#8217;s pin positions. I&#8217;ve finally got a chance to win. I have to make it happen. I&#8217;ve been waiting ten years for this. I feel confident. I&#8217;m only nervous&#8230; &#8230;about one thing. Were you surprised when you heard<br \/>\nI was in first place on day one? Actually, it didn&#8217;t surprise<br \/>\nme all that much. Whatever. I was happy more than anything. Very happy. And not only me. Everyone on the island was smiling. Everyone on the island is rooting for you. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;ve become the pride<br \/>\nof the whole island. You really are an island girl, Tonbo. Everyone was happy. I made them smile. I&#8217;m doing this for them. Alright. You must get three strokes under today. If you can get your score<br \/>\nto nine under, you can&#8217;t lose. You&#8217;ll make the playoffs. Got it? Three strokes. My goal is sixty-nine. I&#8217;ll try to get two strokes<br \/>\nunder in the first half. How unfortunate. I won&#8217;t be able to play with you today. Today we&#8217;re playing in groups of three. You&#8217;re with Tsubura&#8217;s<br \/>\nlast group today, right, Hata? Who&#8217;s the caddy for my group? Me! Shall I polish your balls? No thanks. This is Mr. Nishi, caddy-in-training. He failed the pro test four times. You don&#8217;t need to mention that. I&#8217;m Tonbo Oi. Nice to meet you! Y-yeah. You too. I heard the rumors. She really only has<br \/>\nseven clubs. Can she play like that? Why do I have to caddy for this kid?  Why did Mr. Nakase tell me to do this? What&#8217;s with that face? Sorry, Igaiga. You really are like Grandpa Gon. Ms. Kasahara, you&#8217;ll mark for Ms. Okawa. Ms. Oi, you&#8217;ll mark for Ms. Kasahara. Okawa, you&#8217;ll mark for Ms. Oi, please. Can I get ahead<br \/>\nthree strokes in this wind? There&#8217;s another thing<br \/>\nto be nervous about. My strokes have a lot of spin and are weak<br \/>\nto wind. That&#8217;s the only way I can hit. I&#8217;m used to playing in the wind. I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nmind it. But I&#8217;m not the only one. There&#8217;s someone else<br \/>\nI need to watch out for. The forest has turned completely white. White? The color of the leaves<br \/>\nwhen they&#8217;re blown by the wind. When reading the wind,<br \/>\ngolfers must pay attention to the trees. Pros look at the color of the leaves. When it&#8217;s blowing this hard, even Bunpei can tell<br \/>\nwhere it&#8217;s coming from. That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s<br \/>\nreally good at reading the wind! Who&#8217;s Bunpei? The king of goro golf. Goro golf? Maybe I&#8217;ll try goro golf today, too. So that&#8217;s how they do it! That&#8217;s so cool! The wind carried it all the<br \/>\nway into the left forest. I&#8217;ve got to tie it a bit tighter. Hey! You&#8217;re next! The hole starts with a grove on the right. I&#8217;ll probably have to aim<br \/>\nfor the adjacent hole, but aiming that far right is scary. Even with a flat fairway, landing the ball<br \/>\nin the right place will be tough. The band will break<br \/>\nif you pull too hard! You&#8217;ll need a hairpin, too. Alright! It&#8217;s not alright! You have to hit! Sorry, I&#8217;m going to use this one. A five wood? Tonbo! Don&#8217;t worry about your score!<br \/>\nGet out there and win this thing! Play your way! Show us that special Tonbo style! Okay! Teeing up high in wind like this? Where is she aiming? Tonbo&#8217;s going for a swallow ball. But why is she using a five wood? Her driver is designed<br \/>\nto produce as little spin as possible. Not only backspin, but<br \/>\ncreating side spin is difficult as well. It&#8217;s hard to turn the ball. Because a five wood is usually<br \/>\nhit from the ground, it&#8217;s designed to create backspin<br \/>\nto send the ball up high. It&#8217;s easy to turn the ball. She&#8217;s not aiming for a swallow ball.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s looking to improve her score. What? The wind isn&#8217;t carrying it! Go! Flying fish ball! Alright! The ball has a fierce cut spin sending it<br \/>\nstraight through the wind, unharmed. Oh no! My visor is gone! What should I do? The visor Hinoki gave me! Where&#8217;d it go? Her concentration is incredible. Even in this wind, she&#8217;s able to<br \/>\nsend the ball any direction she wants. She&#8217;s like a fish in water. Hey! We have to get going! I&#8217;ll find it for you later! Okay. She&#8217;s amazing. How is she able to turn the ball? Her swing is different<br \/>\nevery shot she takes! This one won&#8217;t be easy.  Sandy lies with thin grass. There&#8217;s even a bunker<br \/>\nbetween the ball and the pin. What? That stance! She avoided the sand! What? I knew that would work! This is so fun! You knew it? You mean you had confidence in that shot? Aren&#8217;t you scared of anything? Scared? That&#8217;s a terrifying shot!<br \/>\nWhat if you went in the bunker? What? I just thought it&#8217;d be cool if I could get<br \/>\nit over the bunker! Cool? I avoided hitting a chunk shot<br \/>\nwith my stance! What? But how? I&#8217;m not sure. That&#8217;s where Tonbo hit. Even in this strong wind,  she&#8217;s aiming her swings<br \/>\ntowards the seventh hole on the left. I&#8217;m sure she hit that cut ball<br \/>\nto battle the wind, but I don&#8217;t plan on fighting the wind.  I&#8217;m going to use it to my advantage. That&#8217;s how I deal with wind. I just have to get the ball<br \/>\non the wide left area of the pin. It won&#8217;t make it! Sorry! Hey Tsubura! How&#8217;s it going? What does it look like? My ball is way<br \/>\nover here! How about you, Tonbo? My score hasn&#8217;t changed yet. Adaniya got a double bogey. I&#8217;m down three strokes.<br \/>\nTsubura and Ema are down two. We&#8217;re all tied at three under. I thought only the three of us had a<br \/>\nchance to win. But Tonbo is on par. She&#8217;s entered the running<br \/>\nto win this thing! The final day of the<br \/>\ncompetition has begun! Huh? What&#8217;s wrong, Tonbo? Well, you see&#8230; On the next episode of Tonbo! Hinoki&#8217;s Troubles Yaya asked me to choose between<br \/>\nwestern or Chinese food for dinner! You haven&#8217;t changed at all. Here it comes! Whoa! It&#8217;s coming from this way now! This wind is out of control! Looks like the group ahead finished up! The wind here is different<br \/>\nthan on the green. It&#8217;s blowing the complete<br \/>\nopposite direction now. It&#8217;s not just<br \/>\nchanging directions either. With today&#8217;s pin position, even if you miss the pin<br \/>\nto the to the left, an uphill approach is left.<br \/>\nGetting par should be easy. Even if I give advice on where to<br \/>\naim, it won&#8217;t be easy with this wind. Not even Tonbo will be able to use<br \/>\nthis wind to her advantage. It&#8217;s hard to play the wind when you<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t read its direction. The only judgement we can make<br \/>\nis choosing which club to use. No&#8230; Tonbo has been holding that club<br \/>\nfor a while now. She knew which one<br \/>\nshe wanted to use from the start. Does that mean she&#8217;s able to read the<br \/>\nwind even as it changes this much? The wind is playing. It&#8217;s just like golfing on the island. The three iron. 150 yards to the pin.<br \/>\nIs she reading it as a head wind? I never wore a hat when I<br \/>\nplayed on the island.  My hair was always<br \/>\nblowing like this. Igaiga is here too! The ground is hard. This is so much fun! What kind of a swing was that? She&#8217;s rolling it? She&#8217;s avoiding the wind altogether! Did I just&#8230;? A hole-in-one? Guess not. The ball ended up<br \/>\nin the best spot possible. I never would have<br \/>\nthought to do that.  Even if thought of it,<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t do it! It feels like I can&#8217;t call that cool&#8230;<br \/>\nCan I even call it real golf? Wait&#8230; who am I to judge? Who am I to decide what real golf is? Nice par. Thank you. Tonbo has par. Her total is still an even par. She made it through<br \/>\nthis difficult hole with ease. It seems like it&#8217;s blowing<br \/>\nmainly to the right. Seven iron please. I&#8217;ll take a bet on that. No. The wind is blowing to the left. It changed to a head wind.  This will be the end for all of us. Tonbo will take the lead! No.  If I persevere, I can get ahead<br \/>\nof Ema and Hinoki.  I can take the lead! To make that happen&#8230; A spoon? That&#8217;s&#8230; She&#8217;s doing it Tonbo&#8217;s way. She aimed for the same spot. I can&#8217;t afford to hold back.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to win this! She hits her wedge and putter with<br \/>\nher right hand. And she&#8217;s good. I&#8217;m up. She hits hard, but perhaps her previous play style<br \/>\nused delicate techniques. They can&#8217;t afford to<br \/>\nlet their guard down for a second. I think I&#8217;m holding up well. Even so, the seventh hole<br \/>\nwas the turning point. We were all tied until then. It looks like the<br \/>\nsecond group is done. Yeah. I wonder how Tonbo&#8217;s first half went? Only a few players so far finished the first half<br \/>\nwith a score in the thirties. And the ones that did<br \/>\ndid it before this wind picked up. Everyone else was in the forties. Even if she drops<br \/>\nfive or six strokes, she&#8217;s still hitting average. Thanks. Igaiga is watching. She&#8217;s hitting her third stroke<br \/>\nfrom the fairway. We&#8217;re right behind the pin.<br \/>\nShould we move? How do you think<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll hit it from there? She has about a<br \/>\nthirty-five yard approach. She doesn&#8217;t have to<br \/>\ndo anything special. She needs to focus on distance, but that won&#8217;t be easy<br \/>\nwith this wind. Even though it&#8217;s a head wind? If she hits too hard and it<br \/>\ngoes beyond the pin, her fourth stroke<br \/>\nwill be a downhill putt. That will put the<br \/>\nwind behind the ball,  pushing the ball along strongly. If it doesn&#8217;t go in the cup,<br \/>\nthe wind will carry it right over. I see. She&#8217;s got to land it below the cup. Even if it isn&#8217;t perfect,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll have to leave an uphill putt. That&#8217;s her approach. Igaiga is by my side. Alright. Oh, Tonbo. Alright! Right on target! I knew it. You knew it? She often did that on the island. By hitting a full lob<br \/>\nagainst the wind, the ball falls down<br \/>\nand stops dead in its tracks. Tonbo gets a kick out of that one. I was trying to scare Igaiga. Why didn&#8217;t you just roll it?  No one in their right mind<br \/>\nwould lob it here! Alright! My first birdie! Did Tonbo chip it in? A birdie? She&#8217;s tied with Ema and I. Your first birdie, huh? It is quite windy. How many bogies did you get? None. You&#8217;re one under? Yeah! So nobody achieved<br \/>\na green in regulation. Even for the last group, no one is playing<br \/>\nvery well in this wind. She opened the face up. Is she going to lob it? No. Only Tonbo would<br \/>\ntake a risk like that. That&#8217;s enough! Stop! I&#8217;m going to mark it! That was a fine approach. Indeed. This is a critical moment.  If my score drops below Tsubura&#8217;s I have no chance of winning. If I can keep my game up until<br \/>\nTsubura&#8217;s own score drops I&#8217;ll be able to apply pressure<br \/>\nand find my momentum! I can&#8217;t lose my nerve!<br \/>\nEverything has been going well so far. I need to finish the first half<br \/>\nwith my two-stroke lead. It&#8217;s a shank! This is it. Things are turning in my favor.  This will be<br \/>\na double-bogey for Tsubura. I&#8217;m enjoying my opponent&#8217;s mistakes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping for trouble.  But why? Why can&#8217;t I stay positive? Why can&#8217;t I focus on<br \/>\njust being the best I can be? Hinoki. No practice swing? I don&#8217;t like this version of myself.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m know I&#8217;m going to pay for being mean. I knew it, this is my punishment! Or&#8230; maybe it isn&#8217;t. They said I&#8217;m the only one<br \/>\nto finish the first half under par! So it seems. Aren&#8217;t you happy, Igaiga? Why are you acting like that? Believing this is the half way point<br \/>\nof the game is too leisurely! In professional golf, it&#8217;s not<br \/>\nhalfway over until the tenth! The final three holes require as much or even more energy<br \/>\nthan the previous fifteen. Jeez. I thought Igaiga<br \/>\nwould be proud of me. But I guess not. You never know. Tonbo finished the first half<br \/>\nunder par! She&#8217;s only one stroke<br \/>\nbehind the leader! She might actually have a chance! I&#8217;ve got to tell everyone! Wait. Bunpei doesn&#8217;t have a phone.<br \/>\nWho can I send a message to? I know! Yes? This is Toshima Village City Hall. H-hello, the name&#8217;s Igarashi.  I work at the<br \/>\nHinoshima Development Center. They call me &#8220;Igaiga&#8221; on the island. Right&#8230; Attention. This is the<br \/>\nToshima Village Disaster Center. We have an emergency<br \/>\nbroadcast from a man named Igaiga. Igaiga? However, I have absolutely<br \/>\nno idea what he&#8217;s talking about. While quite out of the ordinary,<br \/>\nhe told me it&#8217;s very important. I will now share with you exactly<br \/>\nwhat he told me to say: Tonbo has closed the gap<br \/>\nto just one stroke behind the leader at the end<br \/>\nof the front nine on the final day! Or&#8230; something. Bunpei! Did you hear<br \/>\nthe announcement? Can&#8217;t you call me &#8220;honey&#8221; or<br \/>\nsomething like that? Isn&#8217;t it great? Aww, Yoko! I repeat: Tonbo has closed the gap<br \/>\nto just one stroke behind the leader at the end<br \/>\nof the front nine on the final day! And so concludes our broadcast. Yes! Hinoki! Where&#8217;s Hinoki! Excuse me, sir! You can&#8217;t come in<br \/>\nthe clubhouse dressed like that! Hinoki!<br \/>\nWhere are you? Hinoki! If I tell him I hit forty&#8230; You&#8217;ve held your top position<br \/>\ndespite this powerful wind. You have no reason<br \/>\nto be looking so down! You played wonderfuly. Superintendant Nakase&#8230; Just leave it to me. Hinoki! Where are you, Hinoki? Mr. Otoha. Please leave here at once. If you continue to cause trouble, I will have to resort<br \/>\nto drastic measures. Drastic? I may not look it, but I have<br \/>\na strong sense of justice. This is my golf course! If you don&#8217;t listen to what I say,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll pay the price! Hinoki has moved onto<br \/>\nthe second half in the top position. She has? Very well. If only that were the truth. Even if I&#8217;m able to win, I can&#8217;t win by only one stroke. Even if I had taken a one stroke<br \/>\npenalty back then, I could have won. That&#8217;s why I have to get two strokes<br \/>\nahead. I have to win by two strokes! I don&#8217;t see Tonbo on the fairway. Did you find it? Here it is! She&#8217;s not out of bounds, but even if she gets on the fairway, she&#8217;ll use her third stroke<br \/>\nto get on the green She&#8217;ll have to make it in one putt. This could hurt her score. No matter where you hit it, you&#8217;ll have to aim low<br \/>\nto avoid the branches. The widest spot is over here,<br \/>\nbut there&#8217;s a bunker. The right side of the woods is a<br \/>\ndepression set back from the fairway. Getting on the fairway will be tough. She could get a bogey or worse. Don&#8217;t worry about getting par. Just make sure<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t get a double bogey. Where are you aiming? That&#8217;s way too far to the right!<br \/>\nEven farther than the green! There&#8217;s no way. Are you trying to hit it through<br \/>\nthat little opening? There&#8217;s no way! Any farther and<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll go out of bounds! It went though! Turn, turn, turn! It turned! It&#8217;s on the green! It rolled! It disappeared! You&#8217;ll need a provisional ball. Oops. I&#8217;m hitting a provisional ball! Let&#8217;s get it right this time! If you hurt yourself<br \/>\nany more than this&#8230; A provisional ball.<br \/>\nNext will be her fourth stroke. One to the fairway,<br \/>\nthen on the green in five. Two putts could give<br \/>\nher a double bogey. If that happens,  the all-powerful Tonbo will be<br \/>\ndropped from the competition. The bunker is a safe spot. There&#8217;s still 180 yards. That should<br \/>\nbe no problem for y&#8211; You&#8217;re aiming for the green again? And you&#8217;re aiming up this time? Again? Is she insane? I can&#8217;t hope for others&#8217; failure.<br \/>\nTonbo. That&#8217;s enough! It&#8217;s getting narrower. And wider again. The next time it sways&#8230; Now! Go! Robin ball! Alright! Right by the pin! No way! She can finish with a bogey? I found my first ball! And it&#8217;s in a good spot, too! I&#8217;ll finish first! After all that commotion. She got a par after all. I think that&#8217;s it. It stopped too soon.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still a long putt left. It&#8217;s totally stuck.  If it came down, I&#8217;d be able to<br \/>\nhit is as my second stroke. I&#8217;ll try shaking the tree. Wait. If the ball that falls down<br \/>\nreally is yours, you&#8217;ll get a penalty stroke<br \/>\nfor moving the ball. You&#8217;ll have to put it back, too. That&#8217;s&#8230; If you&#8217;re going to do it, if it is your ball, you&#8217;ll have to<br \/>\ndeclare it as unplayable first. And if I do that? Without going closer to the pin,<br \/>\nyou can drop it straight down and within two club lengths<br \/>\nof where it was, or drop it alone the extended line<br \/>\nfrom the spot to the cup. You can take your<br \/>\nthird short from there. That way I&#8217;ll be able to<br \/>\naim for the green. That&#8217;s much better<br \/>\nthan the other options. If it is my ball,<br \/>\nthen I&#8217;m calling it unplayable! Come on! Get down here! Why won&#8217;t it come down? If it doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\ncome down I won&#8217;t be able to win! Is your ball stuck, Hinoki? Tonbo! I have to make sure<br \/>\nit really is my ball first! Then let&#8217;s take a look! Tonbo. Was it a Callaway? That&#8217;s the one! It&#8217;s mine! I&#8217;ll drop it down. Tonbo! Are you okay, Tonbo? Here! Tonbo! What are you doing? You&#8217;ve still got a putt left! Okay! Do your best, everyone! She came all the way<br \/>\nhere to find your ball? Tonbo is always like that. Even when we were<br \/>\npracticing on the course,  she ran all over<br \/>\nlooking for lost balls. And look at me. I&#8217;ve even messed with the score just to<br \/>\nwin ahead of Tonbo. Is this really who<br \/>\nyou want to be, Hinoki? You&#8217;re too out of breath to putt! Did Tonbo miss the par putt? Her first bogey? It&#8217;s my fault. She came to find my ball. She did it for me. I&#8230; I&#8230; Tonbo! Tonbo. Tonbo. I&#8230; I&#8230; I moved my ball! Emma. Have you ever felt pressured before? I&#8217;m always suffering from it during matches. I&#8217;m really feeling it right now. What&#8217;s wrong? On the next episode of Tonbo! First Time Under Pressure I&#8217;ve got pressure in my tummy<br \/>\nfrom all that breakfast! That&#8217;s called eating too much. Tonbo. Tonbo. I&#8230; I&#8230; I moved my ball! I know you did! All you need to do is take a penalty<br \/>\nstroke and put the ball back where it was! Good luck! That&#8217;s not it. You don&#8217;t get it, Tonbo. That&#8217;s not it. You moved your ball? You mean before your last shot? You moved your ball during your swing<br \/>\nbut hit it anyway. Was that it? Yes. In that case, you don&#8217;t have to put it<br \/>\nback where you found it. Just take the penalty stroke<br \/>\nand play it where it is. A penalty stroke? That&#8217;ll put you at four-on. I&#8230; I lied again. But that will mean the mistake I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\npay for yesterday will be paid for today. I&#8217;m just being selfish again. But&#8230; I do feel a bit better now. You&#8217;re going to have to take things<br \/>\nseriously from here on out! Take things seriously? You&#8217;re in the middle of a heated<br \/>\ncompetition! Don&#8217;t you want to win? You&#8217;ve been searching for others&#8217; balls. and taking super risky shots<br \/>\nthat could cost you the whole game! It doesn&#8217;t seem like<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re trying to win at all! The chance is dangling<br \/>\nright in front of you! You need to give this 100%! 100%? That&#8217;s right! You need to change it up! Change it up? What does<br \/>\ngiving 100% even mean? This girl was six strokes behind<br \/>\nbut has somehow tied up for the top spot. Even with the wind and conditions<br \/>\nbeing as awful as they are. You want me to change it up? No. I was wrong. You don&#8217;t need to change your game. Play the way you always do. I want to see more of it. I think the answer as to why<br \/>\n I keep failing the pro test lies in your golf game, Tonbo. In my game? Yeah. It&#8217;s not all about winning. It&#8217;s&#8230; It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re playing<br \/>\nfor something else! I don&#8217;t understand a word you&#8217;re saying. Anyway, there&#8217;s still five holes left! What I mean is it&#8217;d be a waste<br \/>\nif you didn&#8217;t at least try to win! Got it! Is beating people really that important? I just want to get better at golf! That&#8217;s it! That&#8217;s all that really matters! She&#8217;s challenging herself<br \/>\nto get better at golf. That&#8217;s the only thing<br \/>\nthat needs paying attention to. I got a double bogey. This is the first time her score<br \/>\nhas changed in the second half. I just can&#8217;t let my score fall first. I&#8217;m fully determined. Finally. We&#8217;re tied for the top. The direction of the wind<br \/>\nis finally fixed in place. It&#8217;s a tailwind. This is it. I&#8217;ll be able to play<br \/>\nto my fullest on this hole. The last par 5 of the day. This hole will be the key to victory. Ema&#8217;s high balls have<br \/>\nan incredible amount of backspin. On a windy day like today,<br \/>\nthat\u2019s become her worst enemy. With the wind like this, a tailwind will<br \/>\nget rid of the small turns the ball makes. It will push the ball forward. This is it. This is my chance.<br \/>\nThis is my only chance! She finally did it! I&#8217;ve got to do it! Now! There&#8217;s 260 yards<br \/>\nto the center of the bunker. Even with this tailwind&#8230; Amazing. -Nice.<br \/>\n-Thanks. A creek? Ema&#8217;s not the only one depending<br \/>\non making this hole the key to victory. I get the feeling that whoever<br \/>\ngets a birdie on this whole is going to be the winner. To get the birdie with today&#8217;s<br \/>\npin position, the ball will the ball will need to stop<br \/>\nas soon as it lands. That won&#8217;t be easy with this tailwind. Rather than approaching<br \/>\nthe green from close by,  a long shot will be easier to spin. In regards to where<br \/>\nthat long shot should be taken from, I&#8217;ll have to be wary of the bunker<br \/>\nthat lies 100 yards from the hole. If it goes in the bunker on my<br \/>\nsecond shot, I won&#8217;t get the birdie. I&#8217;ve got to find a route that prevents me<br \/>\nfrom going into the bunker. If I plan to stop before the bunker,<br \/>\nit\u2019ll be 140 yards. I&#8217;ll have to hit the ball 220 yards twice. I can hit the ball around<br \/>\n200 yards with my creek. Even with a tailwind,<br \/>\nit won&#8217;t reach the bunker. It&#8217;s like the bunker isn&#8217;t even there.<br \/>\nI can hit this shot free of pressure. This is the best plan to get the birdie. If the ball goes where I want it to, my third shot will be<br \/>\nfrom around 110 yards. It&#8217;ll be easy for me to land the ball<br \/>\nnear the pin. More than it will for Ema. I&#8217;ll keep fighting till the end. My current score and position<br \/>\nare the real me. I have to see how far I can really go Tilting the tee like that will create<br \/>\nresistance, causing the ball to spin more. She&#8217;ll be able to utilize the wind. Hinoki hasn&#8217;t given up just yet. I can&#8217;t believe it stopped here. It might as well have gone in the bunker. What are you talking about? If you had done that,<br \/>\nthe tree might have gotten in the way. From here you won&#8217;t hit the tree, but you&#8217;ll have to hit the ball<br \/>\nfrom inside the bunker. You&#8217;ll have to stand on your tippy toes. Even with the tailwind,<br \/>\nyour sand wedge won&#8217;t be enough. You&#8217;ll have to use the nine iron. I&#8217;ll use&#8230; this one! Your six iron?! Th&#8211; What?! I&#8217;ll have to use the nine and hit it thin! I see. So she can hit it<br \/>\nfarther with a short iron. If she stands on her toes, it&#8217;ll be easier<br \/>\nto tilt the club face to the left. I usually like to carry<br \/>\none large club like this, but I never thought to carry two or three. Oh no. I thought it&#8217;d hook a bit but it<br \/>\nwent totally straight. What are you talking about?<br \/>\nThat was a sick shot! Sick? It means amazing! She used the creek again. She&#8217;s trying to stop the ball<br \/>\nin front of the bunker. I see. So her third shot<br \/>\nwill be a full swing. Tsubura is the only one in this game<br \/>\n who truly understands the course. Only 50 more yards. Alright. Amazing. 240 yards to the edge of the green. Even with the tailwind,<br \/>\nto get it there in two shots&#8230; Even if she gets it there, she won&#8217;t be able to get it over the<br \/>\nbunker to the pin with a spoon. She&#8217;ll have to avoid the bunker<br \/>\nand aim for the fairway. If she doesn&#8217;t, it&#8217;ll roll too far<br \/>\nwhen it hits the green. If it doesn&#8217;t go far enough,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll have to hit it over the bunker. Either way, it won&#8217;t be easy<br \/>\nto get the birdie. Tsubura. Your course management is incredible. But I&#8217;ll also say this. All you do is avoid<br \/>\nthe dangers of the course. A direct line to the pin? The strain is too much.<br \/>\nMy left ankle can&#8217;t take much more. If she hits putting that much<br \/>\nweight on her right leg, the club will hit the ground! My spoon has a wide sole. I won&#8217;t hit the ground<br \/>\nno matter how high up I hit it from. It doesn&#8217;t matter how high it goes. I&#8217;ve just got to hit it the best I can. That&#8217;s all I have left to do. What matters is direction. I need to<br \/>\ndrop it within two yards of the pin. The reference shot is a push draw. A push draw is hitting<br \/>\noutside your target line. On top of that, I&#8217;ll swing the club<br \/>\neven wider than usual. The more the shaft aims towards the<br \/>\ndirection you want the ball to go, the easier it is to create<br \/>\nan inside-out flight path. This is the perfect set up! She did it! But it&#8217;s too far left! Come back! Oh no. If it drops in there&#8230; She hit it from there? She got a two-on?! Ema! That was great! You&#8217;re this close! Yeah! Tsubura. Golf is a game of chance for you,<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t it? Shots that have a low success rate have a zero percent chance<br \/>\nif you don&#8217;t try. But if you try, anything is possible. You win by going on the offense.<br \/>\nNot with logic and reasoning. You have to fight<br \/>\nat the crucial moment to win. That&#8217;s what I learned<br \/>\nplaying golf in America. I went to take a look.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve got 116 yards to the pin. Thank you. It looked like 120, but it didn&#8217;t go quite far enough. Somewhere between a<br \/>\npitching wedge and nine-iron. I can avoid the bunker with a nine-iron. Hitting with the ball softly with a large<br \/>\nclub will make it lose head speed. If that happens, the impact energy will be<br \/>\nreduced, as well as the backspin. It&#8217;s only five or six yards. Because my calculations were off, my plan to hit a full shot on my third<br \/>\nstroke has been foiled. I&#8217;ll have to hit it gently. If I can make impact without a single<br \/>\nblade of grass getting in the way, even with a 9-iron&#8230; With an eight-iron or below, I&#8217;ve honed the accuracy of my short irons<br \/>\nso that I can aim dead on the pin. Incredible. So this is<br \/>\nwhat it means to carry the ball. Hit it as far as possible<br \/>\nwith a driver from the tee, and get the ball close to the green<br \/>\nwith a wood on the second shot. That&#8217;s how most golfers<br \/>\nwould play on a par five. Hinoki&#8217;s shots, approach<br \/>\nand putts certainly aren&#8217;t ordinary, but honestly, it doesn&#8217;t scare me. The higher the ball goes up, the more the wind affects the spin. We&#8217;re on the same line. Ema will see my line. This should guarantee an eagle for her. I have to get this. If I miss,<br \/>\nEma will have a two stroke lead. That&#8217;s not good for the final four holes. I&#8217;m starting to lose my touch<br \/>\nfrom being nervous. It&#8217;s downhill. I have to<br \/>\nbe careful with my speed. Just like I thought! She forgot about the wind. Don&#8217;t mind if I do. I saw the line. This is it. I can finally take the lead. She hit it too hard. The person who wins this hole wins it all. Ema and I both knew that. But I was aiming for the birdie. Ema was aiming for an eagle! Ema? They&#8217;re on the last three or four holes. Now the real fun begins.<br \/>\nWe could see a chemical reaction. A chemical reaction? This is Tonbo&#8217;s first-ever competition. On the last day, she may have been<br \/>\nable to have fun on the first fourteen, But after that, caught up in a heated battle,<br \/>\nthis could be her first real game of golf. Oh no. &#8220;Real golf?&#8221; The heart sways between<br \/>\nwanting and not wanting. In competitive golf, that is. I&#8217;m excited to see what she decides. She went in the right side<br \/>\nwoods on eleven, and the right side bunker on fourteen. Of the five courses she<br \/>\nused her driver in the second half, she didn&#8217;t land on the fairway<br \/>\nfor three of them. Could it be&#8230;? That I was missing something? Is it farther in here? Ema got right next to the pin on her<br \/>\nsecond shot on hole fourteen. She probably got an eagle. That puts her at three under. I see. So I&#8217;m three strokes behind. Don&#8217;t sound so relaxed. If you make a mistake on this hole,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll be down by four. Down by four with three holes left. You won&#8217;t be able to win. In other words, don&#8217;t hit a bogey<br \/>\nif you still want to win. If I still want to win&#8230; Don&#8217;t act like you don&#8217;t know it! You know it&#8217;s true. You&#8217;re feeling pressure! You&#8217;re just pretending you don&#8217;t realize<br \/>\nit! You want to win right?<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you imagine what that&#8217;s like? Tonbo. You&#8217;re from an island<br \/>\ncalled Tokara, right? Yes. Think about how happy<br \/>\neveryone would be if you won. You want to make them happy.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t want to let them down. That&#8217;s only normal. Don&#8217;t act like you don&#8217;t get it! Acting like I don&#8217;t get it&#8230; Ignoring the pressure is<br \/>\nthe worst thing you can do under pressure. I know it&#8217;s hard acknowledging<br \/>\nthat you&#8217;re scared. I know it&#8217;s not cool. I know I&#8217;m talking down to you, but it&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhy I failed the pro test four times. Tonbo! You need to acknowledge that<br \/>\npressure and face it head on! Only those who can do that<br \/>\nmake it to the top. That&#8217;s golf! Acknowledge the pressure. Face it head on. A divot mark&#8230; As long as the club<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t go into the back edge, there&#8217;s enough space<br \/>\nto hit the ball, but&#8230; What kind of divot mark is this? It&#8217;s probably from someone<br \/>\non the eighteenth hole trying to get the ball<br \/>\nback onto the fairway. What a terrible shot! The turf is all messed up! I&#8217;ve got an open shot to the green. Yeah. It&#8217;s not far away, either. Around ninety, I bet. But&#8230; With this divot mark you can&#8217;t aim it to the green. No matter what angle you use to hit, the ground will get between<br \/>\nthe ball and club. Getting it over the bunker won&#8217;t be easy,<br \/>\neither. I can hit it the same<br \/>\ndirection as the divot. But at this rate&#8230; my score will go down. I won&#8217;t be able to win. Huh? What is this? I want to win. Everyone on the island<br \/>\nwill be so happy if I win. I want to make them happy. I want to win. Golf is a game of pressure. The reason being, You &#8220;want&#8221; to get par. &#8220;Want&#8221; to get on the green. &#8220;Want&#8221; to hit it. There are many wants. You &#8220;don&#8217;t want&#8221; to hit it out of bounds. You &#8220;don&#8217;t want&#8221; three putts. You &#8220;don&#8217;t want&#8221; to duff. You have to focus on the &#8220;wants&#8221; and<br \/>\n&#8220;don&#8217;t wants&#8221; to hit the ball. In other words, the things<br \/>\nyou get from success, and the things you lose from failure. The bigger each of those things become, the more nervous people get. That&#8217;s what we call pressure. I get it now. I&#8217;m nervous. I&#8217;m under pressure. That&#8217;s the only way. Don&#8217;t hit it too hard. Stop it before the bunker. This isn&#8217;t the only way. However&#8230; However, this is my best chance. What&#8217;s wrong? I don&#8217;t care about chance. By acknowledging the pressure I&#8217;m under, I&#8217;m ready to face it head on. Don&#8217;t hit it that way! I may fail. This is a scary shot. This is the first time<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve ever felt this. I get it now. So this is real golf. Don&#8217;t swing it that hard! Come on. Crab ball! An intentional shank?! Please! Get there! No way. Alright! We&#8217;re almost at the last hole. That&#8217;s right. Just be yourself. I will! Watch me, Igaiga! On the next episode of Tonbo. Tonbo, Hole Out Don&#8217;t take your eyes off<br \/>\nfor even a second. Your face is so scary I can&#8217;t concentrate! Tonbo! Alright! She must have known it would have been<br \/>\ngame over if she hit a bogey here. But instead she got a birdie. Now you&#8217;ve still got a chance of<br \/>\ncatching up to Ema&#8217;s three-under! That&#8217;s right! Ema? No way. A second shot<br \/>\nfrom that close to the bunker? That means her tee shot only traveled<br \/>\naround 170 yards. She hit her tee shot too thin. Her left foot is<br \/>\nbarely touching the ground. She chunked it. They&#8217;re still playing the sixteenth hole.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s wait here for now. This club is too long. My putter, please. Ema. Her left ankle. I&#8217;ve been avoiding dragging my ankle<br \/>\nto hide the pain I&#8217;m in. but I&#8217;ve finally hit my limit. Ema. I do feel bad for her. However, her pain is her problem. And I&#8217;ve got to<br \/>\ntake care of my own problems. If Ema gets a bogey<br \/>\nand I can get a birdie, we&#8217;ll be tied for first. It&#8217;s 100 yards to the front edge. 126 yards to the pin. The wind is blowing from the right. It&#8217;s finally calmed down. The green slopes downward<br \/>\nfrom the center right side. The cup lies two steps in from the ridge<br \/>\nthat runs down the slope. To get near the pin, I&#8217;ll have to land<br \/>\nthe ball right in front of the slope. If the ball doesn&#8217;t make it far enough, the ball will stop in front of the ridge. That would mean I&#8217;d have to<br \/>\nmake the up down putt. I&#8217;m aiming for the pin. I&#8217;ll carry the ball<br \/>\nto the base of the pin. Even if it means going over. More than having to deal<br \/>\nwith a downhill putt, I&#8217;ll have a better chance of making an<br \/>\nuphill putt in one stroke. Three steps right of the pin! Yes! This is it!<br \/>\nWay to go, Tsubura! Come on! You&#8217;re four steps on the inside! Four steps? I&#8217;ll have to make it in two steps. No. That still gives me a chance<br \/>\nfor the uphill putt. She&#8217;s thoroughly creating a line. I&#8217;ve never seen such<br \/>\ncontrol of the ball before. How is she able to make lines like that? 111 yards to the pin. 109 to the ridge. Taking spin into consideration, I&#8217;ll need to hit it 105 yards. Great shot, Hinoki! She made it&#8230; over the ridge! One step in front of the pin! In front? So the ball didn&#8217;t roll. Here you are. Thank you. It&#8217;s still far away. Ema. Whoa, whoa. The burden on my ankle is too great. Even small strokes<br \/>\nusing my right side hurt. My 52-degree, please. I&#8217;ll get the ball on the green<br \/>\nand let it roll the rest of the way. As long as I can clear<br \/>\nthe height of the lip&#8230; A double-bogey after all. Wait a minute. This means&#8230; Alright. Does this put everyone at one under? Only three holes left! All four of them are tied for first! Yes. I can do this. I can win this thing! It looks like Tonbo&#8217;s group<br \/>\nhas entered the teeing area. What are you thinking now, Tonbo? Did a chemical reaction happen after all? Why don&#8217;t you ask him yourself? Come on.<br \/>\nJust do it! Excuse me. Would you mind if<br \/>\nwe used those binoculars? Oh, sure! Thank you. What do see? She&#8217;s looking confident. Ema lost a stroke on the seventeenth<br \/>\nand is now at an even par. Tonbo, Tsubura and Hinoki<br \/>\nare tied in first at one under. Ema lost a stroke? Even after she was in first place<br \/>\nwith a two-stroke lead? It appears her left ankle<br \/>\nis giving her trouble. Tonbo&#8217;s in the winning position. Right. If Tonbo can finish the 18th hole<br \/>\nunder par in her group, the following group will lose<br \/>\nif they don&#8217;t finish with par. That gives her an obligation to make par. Obligations can be binding and<br \/>\napply a great deal of pressure. My hands are sweating. This has never happened before. Is that why everyone wears gloves? The final group is here. Ema&#8230; Ema&#8217;s left ankle. It doesn&#8217;t look good. After we tied up on the fifteenth, Ema has fallen behind by one stroke. In this condition,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m surprised it was only one. The fairway is clear. Okay. Tonbo is lined up for the tee shot. Don&#8217;t worry about me. How pathetic. I can&#8217;t even watch. Tonbo. The tee shot is crucial.<br \/>\nYou can do this. Show the last group what you&#8217;ve got! It&#8217;s flying towards the left bunker and is fading! Alright! It&#8217;s in the grove! I can&#8217;t believe she hit it like that. It&#8217;s too early to tell. Tonbo is finally feeling the pressure. My body felt numb when I hit. I wasn&#8217;t even paying attention to my shot. I&#8217;ve got to try and hit it the way I<br \/>\nalways do. That&#8217;s why I practice! It went through the grove and landed<br \/>\nnear the fairway of the fifth hole! To get it back on the<br \/>\nfairway of the 18th&#8230; &#8230;you&#8217;ll have to go<br \/>\nstraight through the grove. It&#8217;s full of trees.<br \/>\nGetting it back won&#8217;t be easy. I want to win. The widest spot. You&#8217;ll have to aim there. It&#8217;s all about your third stroke. If you can get a par you&#8217;ll still<br \/>\nhave a chance to win this. Today&#8217;s pin position isn&#8217;t making it easy<br \/>\nfor anyone to get birdies. I want to win. I want to tell everyone on<br \/>\nthe island that I won. I want to say it with a smile. I want to win! It looks like Tonbo&#8217;s tee shot<br \/>\nlanded on the neighboring hole. The what? Tonbo is on the fifth hole. Tonbo. If you make it through and back<br \/>\nonto the fairway of the 18th, you&#8217;ll be backtracking a bit. You&#8217;ll have 150-160 yards left<br \/>\nwith your third shot. Igaiga. Is that the pin? Yeah. Get it there in three strokes. You&#8217;ll have to get back on the<br \/>\n18th in one stroke. Can I go this way? It&#8217;s wide open. The fifth hole&#8217;s fairway? I see! That might just work! It&#8217;ll be easy if she hits from the fifth. If she can just roll it fifty yards. Wait! Not just yet. Tonbo&#8217;s ball went onto the<br \/>\nneighboring hole and she hasn&#8217;t hit yet. Another hole? That means Tonbo might get<br \/>\na bogey on this one. Ema is down one stroke and<br \/>\nis in no condition to keep playing. Hinoki is the only one standing in my way. I doubt Tsubura and Hinoki<br \/>\nwill get a bogey. I&#8217;ve learned from playing with them<br \/>\nthat they&#8217;re better than that. That means I&#8217;ll have to get a birdie. With this left leg of mine. There&#8217;s a headwind. Why is she worried about the wind?<br \/>\nShe just has to hit it straight on. My body is feeling loose again. I don&#8217;t want to make<br \/>\nthe same mistake again. I&#8217;ve got to use my right hand<br \/>\nlike I&#8217;m making a lasso. If I quickly move my fingers<br \/>\nand then stop them, I can close up the face of the club. What are you doing? Tonbo is aiming to the right. She&#8217;ll get it on the fairway of the fifth. All she has to do is roll it.<br \/>\nWhy is her stance wide? A little more. Here I go. Just like Igaiga told me. Tonbo, I know what you&#8217;re planning. You&#8217;re not aiming for the fairway at all! It&#8217;s just like I told her. The score doesn&#8217;t matter! Give it your all! Win this thing! She aimed for the green! Turn more! It has to turn more! Come on! Over here! Over here! Get over here! She got it on? Did I get it on? -Yes! Alright!<br \/>\n-I can&#8217;t believe you! I hit a lasso ball! Lasso ball? Tonbo is on the green. The crowd was cheering.<br \/>\nJust how close is she? If she&#8217;s on the green,<br \/>\nthat guarantees par. The winning score won&#8217;t go<br \/>\nbelow one under now. I&#8217;ll have to get at least a par. I&#8217;ve got to get the par. Mr. Igarashi! What a shot! That&#8217;s my girl. She missed the tee shot, but she felt the obligation to succeed. I can&#8217;t believe it. That girl. She used a half set? And she&#8217;s still in the<br \/>\nrunning to win this thing? Wow. Yes. It&#8217;s on the green! She didn&#8217;t get applause<br \/>\nback on the island. Especially not like this. She&#8217;s never had a crowd<br \/>\napplaud just for her before. Alright. I&#8217;m on the fairway. If I keep this up, I can get the birdie. Ema! Are you okay? I&#8217;m sorry! Please! Forgive me! I&#8217;m so&#8211; Don&#8217;t worry about it. It wasn&#8217;t your fault. My foot slipped when I swung. I just didn&#8217;t have enough concentration. How could I blame her<br \/>\nin her current state? She trained for ten years<br \/>\nto get back to where she is. And now she&#8217;s in pain once again. She&#8217;s fighting alongside her pain. I don&#8217;t want to lose,<br \/>\nbut I don&#8217;t want her to lose either. Not to some injury. These people are my opponents. I&#8217;m nothing like them.<br \/>\nNothing like Tonbo and the others. I&#8217;m completely different. I&#8217;m not a golfer. I&#8217;m not a real golfer! I needed to get the birdie on this one. You really should take it easy. I&#8217;m finally back competing once again.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m fighting for the prize once again. I&#8217;m having the time of my life. I&#8217;m on the neighboring hole,<br \/>\njust like Tonbo. Is this Tonbo&#8217;s? I can&#8217;t believe she aimed that far right. She got it on the green from here? A perfect position. A perfect line. She got it that close to the pin? Tonbo is amazing. Ema and Tsubura, too. They&#8217;re all amazing. I&#8217;ve decided. On top of the asphalt? &#8211;This is Tonbo&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8211;birdie putt. That&#8217;s my line. There&#8217;s a large ridge<br \/>\nin the center of the green. Tonbo&#8217;s ball lies on the edge.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a steep downhill line. There&#8217;s a two degree slope. Maybe three from where Tonbo is standing. If it goes in, I can win this. I guess a bug crawling by is all it takes<br \/>\nto break her concentration. Shoo! Shoo! That was close.<br \/>\nI would have missed if I took that shot. It doesn&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nhow many strokes it takes. She&#8217;s learned the real fun of golf:<br \/>\nenjoying the game even under pressure. Mr. Kuta. Tonbo. Your putting is quite impressive. But even so&#8230; &#8230;I&#8217;ve got a putter I&#8217;d like you to use. When I was playing<br \/>\non Mr. Kuta&#8217;s fast green, on that downhill putt&#8230; She&#8217;ll need a firm grip<br \/>\nfor the downhill putt. Looking good, Tonbo. Will it go in? If it goes in I&#8217;m done for. If it goes in I&#8217;ll have to<br \/>\nfinish in two more strokes. This is it! It&#8217;s&#8230; Weren&#8217;t you the one who<br \/>\nsaid that score doesn&#8217;t matter? Of all the golf I&#8217;ve played&#8230; &#8230;this was the most fun! It&#8217;s over! My first competition was so fun! It&#8217;s not over yet, Tonbo. You&#8217;ve got to watch<br \/>\nTsubura and the others. Right! On the next episode of Tonbo. &#8220;Winner and Courage&#8221; Don&#8217;t you have work, Igaiga? Oh no! I forgot to book the ferry! This is the most fun I&#8217;ve ever had. Tonbo finished the hole at one under. The winner will be determined by the results of the last group. Tsubura. Hinoki. Ema. I&#8217;ll need to make it in two strokes, but finishing in even three<br \/>\nwill be difficult. However\u2026 Missing the par means<br \/>\nlosing my spot at the playoffs. I&#8217;ll have to go through the grove<br \/>\nand land on the 18th fairway, or bring it to the right side<br \/>\nof the fairway of the fifth hole. If not that\u2026 I&#8217;ll have to hook it onto the green<br \/>\njust like Tonbo did. I&#8217;ll aim for the final hole. Can it really turn that far? I have to do this! Go! Get there! She&#8217;s going for a two-on? The wind blew it back. This will make it hard to get par. Tonbo used her secret weapon<br \/>\nat the final moment. As for Tsubura, she hit a shot completely different from<br \/>\nher secret weapon at the last moment. Why couldn&#8217;t you get<br \/>\nthat great one pattern, Tsubura? I&#8217;m hanging on by a thread. If I can just finish in two strokes&#8230; You&#8217;ll need to take relief from here. The nearest point of relief is\u2026 There. The green is blocked. But from here, I can see the pin. I&#8217;ll go low through the trees, and roll it to the green. No\u2026 I can&#8217;t. There&#8217;s a bunker in front. If I can&#8217;t carry it to the green, I can&#8217;t land it next to the pin. So this is the end? If I go through there, I can carry it to the pin! I can&#8217;t let the ball hop<br \/>\nlike it usually does. I&#8217;ll have to hit it high,<br \/>\nstarting with my swing. To do that, I&#8217;ll have to put<br \/>\nall my weight on my left leg. Seven-iron. No, I&#8217;ll take the eight-iron please. What about relief? No. I&#8217;m going to hit from here. She&#8217;s going to hit it off the asphalt. She&#8217;s not taking the relief? I&#8217;ve got to loft it as high as possible. This isn&#8217;t enough. I need more! It&#8217;s only momentary. I&#8217;ve put up with this pain for ten years. Just a little more&#8230; Just one more swing! Make it through! The ball dropped straight down. Look at that. That&#8217;s not just technique. She put her heart and soul into that shot. Using the soul as your trump card. This is why I love competitive golf! She&#8217;s got a chance for birdie. This means\u2026 Ema can still win. That was amazing. I was really moved! Thank you very much. If I can get it in\u2026 I can catch up! The head of Ema&#8217;s putter snapped clean off! It what? What is this? It&#8217;s like a sign from the god of golf&#8230; Why me? Golf never goes as planned. It never goes the way you want it to. It tests you to your core. I know it&#8217;d be better to give up. Life would be so much easier. But I just can&#8217;t quit. The last ten years were for this shot. This makes it all worth it. I hope I can make a shot like that again. Though I&#8217;m not sure when that may be. All I can do is keep playing. I have to accept things the way they are and keep swinging. I&#8217;ve never hit a ball like that before. She put so much into that shot. Just one shot carries so much weight. All of my shots seem to be weightless. Wow! She&#8217;s close! It&#8217;s Ema&#8217;s. If she gets it in<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll be tied with you. Hinoki&#8217;s up. Never again. She&#8217;s a bit left of the pin. Ride that left wind! Go! No! Stop! It&#8217;s still close enough to putt in. Why are you so excited? You&#8217;ll lose if it goes in. If Ema Kurisu gets the birdie putt, she&#8217;ll tie the top spot at one under. If Tsubura Adaniya can<br \/>\nsink it in one putt, she&#8217;ll keep her top spot at one under. If Hinoki Otoha can sink it in one putt,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll win at two under. If she misses she&#8217;ll be at one under. A play-off against Tonbo Oi. You mean these four<br \/>\nhave their own play-off? Tsubura&#8217;s up. The conditions are just right<br \/>\nfor easily stopping the ball. Is she going to chip it in? No. She\u2019s making sure the ball won&#8217;t bounce<br \/>\noff the pin and roll away. She wants the ball to stop. If the ball is spinning, it would bounce right off<br \/>\nif it were to hit the pin. If that&#8217;s what she&#8217;s thinking, that means she&#8217;s planning on<br \/>\ncarrying the ball right to the pin. That&#8217;s right. I swung too hard! If she hadn&#8217;t taken it out, it really would have hit the pin. She knew it would stop within two steps<br \/>\non the first or second bounce. She&#8217;s relying on the putt now. That was her play. It&#8217;s not only the approach. She&#8217;s thinking about how<br \/>\nto keep par with her next putt. Even in this crucial moment,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s able to think clearly. Tsubura is a fearsome competitor, indeed. It&#8217;s the exact same distance and line. We&#8217;ll both finish the hole<br \/>\nat one under if we get it in. The person who hits second<br \/>\nwill have a big advantage. If the first player makes the shot, the second player&#8217;s line will be exposed. You can keep it out. Unlike Tsubura, she&#8217;s clearly going for the chip-in. If she wants to get it in the cup,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll have to use a wedge. However, under pressure like this, she&#8217;ll want her putter as well. If she takes her wedge, it&#8217;s a sign that she&#8217;s well prepared<br \/>\nand is incredibly confident. And there you have it. I expect great things from her. Hinoki practices hard. She puts in more time than anyone else. No matter how strict<br \/>\nher father&#8217;s coaching may be, she never gives up. And when things go well\u2026 I did it, Dad! Hinoki&#8217;s father has drilled golf into her. But is that really all? When I saw her smiling back then, I knew a bright future awaited her. I wanted to train her more myself. Over there. I&#8217;ve practiced an approach<br \/>\nfrom this distance thousands of times. No, even more than that. Now it all comes down to this shot. Ema taught me so much. As did Tsubura, and Tonbo too. I want to be a golfer just like them. I want to fight<br \/>\nfor everything I&#8217;ve worked for. It went in. It&#8217;s on the line. She did it. I did it. I used everything I&#8217;ve learned. Hinoki. That was great. You showed us how confident you are. That was an incredible putt. We&#8217;ll have to see what happens next. This could come down<br \/>\nto a cut-throat final shot. I&#8217;m marking my ball. I still have a chance to win. I&#8217;ll shoot first. But\u2026 I think I&#8217;m a hair farther back. I see. This is because It was Ema&#8217;s fault that<br \/>\nTsubura missed her tee shot. Now she&#8217;s making up for it. Which club will she use? Her putter is broken, after all. Her putter broke? So what will Ema do? She&#8217;ll just have to use<br \/>\none of her other clubs. I&#8217;ll use this one. A wedge? There are two cups. She&#8217;s on the same line I shot from. I couldn&#8217;t make it in at the very end. It&#8217;s the same line as me! No! Go right! Yes! It&#8217;s turning! More! More! Go! This puts Ema out of the match. Ema. I did my best. The ball went off course<br \/>\nduring Ema&#8217;s wedge putt. Can I trust this line? Or should I find a new line completely? If the ball had stayed on track,<br \/>\nshe could have used that line. But it may have made<br \/>\nthings even tougher for her. Thinking before a shot. The most important part of golf. But also the most difficult. It&#8217;s not as bad as it looks. Just stay slightly inside Ema&#8217;s line. Tsubura! Just slightly inside the line! Did she hit it too hard? Go! She missed the comeback. If she gets it in, it&#8217;ll be<br \/>\na playoff against Tonbo Oi. Hinoki! You can make that shot<br \/>\nwith your eyes closed! Mr. Otoha! Yahoo! Alright! Now it&#8217;s the playoffs Hinoki! You&#8217;ve got this! No. You&#8217;re wrong. What? Hinoki. Yesterday, on the fifth hole. My ball moved! But I didn&#8217;t report it! But I kept playing. I continued on! I\u2026 I\u2026 I want to be like Tonbo, Ema, and Tsubura. I want to play like them! I should&#8230; &#8230;be disqualified! That means\u2026 What? -Igaiga? Your face is scary.<br \/>\n-You\u2026 you\u2026 Scary? Or should I say weird?<br \/>\n-You\u2026 You\u2026 You\u2026 Tonbo! You\u2026 You won, Tonbo! I wanted to say it! Grandpa Gon! Grandpa Gon! It&#8217;s Tonbo! Tonbo? She won the tournament! Is that so? She really did it. Tonbo. Congratulations! Thank you, Tsubura! This hurts! It really hurts! You&#8217;re really a monster after all! A monster? You won&#8217;t win the Japan Woman&#8217;s Open! Just you wait! Got it? I won&#8217;t lose next time! Tsubura. The winner at the next one will be the real number one! What&#8217;s the Japan Woman&#8217;s Open? It&#8217;s the tournament that decides<br \/>\nthe best amateur golfer. Can you believe we lost to this girl? Hey, what about Hinoki? Oh, Hinoki? She just went out that way. I&#8217;m sorry, father. I couldn&#8217;t win. I told you to win, not to cheat. Igaiga&#8230; When I was young, I experienced terrible lows. But I never stole from anyone. What you&#8217;ve done is theft. You stole a single golf stroke. I\u2026 I&#8217;m a thief. However\u2026 I&#8217;m the one who cornered and pressured you to the point that you considered stealing. Due to all that pressure,<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t teach you anything important. I weakened your spirit. I&#8217;m sorry. Father. You might not be able<br \/>\nto play golf for a while. You&#8217;ll likely be suspended from competing. What have I done? By stealing one stroke, I betrayed Tonbo and the other players. I deserve the consequences. I think you&#8217;ve learned your lesson. I&#8217;m sure your heart was hurting<br \/>\nas you continued to play. I&#8217;m sure you wanted to go back<br \/>\nas soon as the ball moved. That&#8217;s why you confessed<br \/>\nto everyone on the last hole. That must have taken a lot of courage. That&#8217;s enough, Hinoki. Please. As a golfer, what Hinoki did was truly dishonest. Even so, please don&#8217;t keep her from<br \/>\nhaving a second chance. Please continue to support her.<br \/>\nPlease! It is said that golf is a game for<br \/>\nladies and gentlemen. However, that may not be accurate. Rather, it is the kind of game that<br \/>\ncreates ladies and gentlemen. This is the truth of the matter. No one enters the course initially<br \/>\nas a dignified person. I belive they become dignified only<br \/>\nby finishing a game. Mr. Nakase\u2026 Hinoki. You&#8217;re not going to quit, are you? Tonbo. I&#8217;m not quitting. Tonbo. She&#8217;s coming home. I didn&#8217;t expect to come home so soon. It&#8217;s a bit embarrassing. You&#8217;ve got quite<br \/>\nthe souvenir to bring back. Everyone will be welcoming you. Thank you, Igaiga. What&#8217;s gotten into you? You know, I&#8217;m glad I play golf. I&#8217;m really, really glad I play golf! Your story is only just beginning. You&#8217;re going to get<br \/>\nbigger and stronger, Tonbo! I love golf! Hooray! TONBO! EPISODE 26: TONBO&#8217;S CHALLENGE<br \/>\nTHE HEROINES OF KYUSHU When she was little, Tonbo Oi moved to<br \/>\nHinoshima in the Tokara Islands. With her late father&#8217;s beloved three-iron,<br \/>\nshe began her journey with golf. Her natural talent for golf flourished, Tonbo went to high school in Kumamoto. There, she achieved an incredible feat,<br \/>\nwinning the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Championship. Now, she&#8217;s returned to Hinoshima,<br \/>\ncelebrated as a champion. Hey, Igaiga. What&#8217;s with the creepy face?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re muttering away to yourself! Ah! N-Nothing! How&#8217;s the sunset on Hinoshima<br \/>\nfeel after all this time? It&#8217;s amazing, just like I remembered. Hinoshima sure is a great place! But I bet your time off the island<br \/>\nwas pretty exciting. Of course! It was<br \/>\na whirlwind of excitement! What stood out the most to me\u2026 What was it? The ramen we had in Kagoshima! What?! Ramen?! Here you go! What is this? I&#8217;ve never<br \/>\nhad anything like it! Seriously, you never lose your appetite,<br \/>\nno matter where you are. I was so nervous<br \/>\non the way to Mr. Udo&#8217;s house. Didn&#8217;t you doze off hard<br \/>\non the bullet train? I was blown away by how beautiful<br \/>\nthe driving range he runs is. And at night, it&#8217;s so bright! Mr. Udo and his wife<br \/>\nare also very cheerful. Yes, the customers love his wife, Yaya. Let&#8217;s see what you&#8217;ve got. A driver? I was bewildered when he suddenly<br \/>\nasked me to use a driver. Yeah, that really put me on edge. Okay! Using a driver is really difficult\u2026 Oh, and speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Udo\u2026 Yeah? -The breakfast they served was so good!<br \/>\n-What?! Is breakfast the first thing that comes<br \/>\nto mind when you think of them? No-Not at all! And their son, Hajime, is a golf coach. Mr. Igarashi told me. Wanna come with us? Yes, please! Over here, everyone! Meet your new friend. From Tokara&#8211; I&#8217;m Tonbo Oi! It&#8217;s a pleasure to meet y&#8211; Try this one! I&#8217;d never been around so many<br \/>\npeople my age, so I was nervous. And also, Hinoki and I are only a year apart,<br \/>\nbut she seems so grown-up. That&#8217;s the first friend<br \/>\nyou made in Kumamoto, right? I&#8217;ve never seen you before. -Yes, right.<br \/>\n-I&#8217;m Hinoki Otoha. A sophomore in high school.<br \/>\nNice to meet you. It&#8217;s huge! And green! And beautiful! Okay, Tonbo! It&#8217;s your course debut! Okay! It&#8217;s so low! It was the first time you played<br \/>\non a real course. How was it? It&#8217;s different from our island. There are no strong sea winds,<br \/>\nand the ball rolls differently. Just like playing on Mr. Kuta&#8217;s<br \/>\nisland course, it was so much fun! Gaining new experiences<br \/>\nand trying new things. -Just like Fukuta said.<br \/>\n-Yeah. Alright! This is too fun! A driver? That&#8217;s when you gave me a new club. Ah\u2026 That&#8217;s right. What? Is there a problem? It&#8217;s 15,309 yen! I was so happy with your parting gift! I felt so embarrassed\u2026 Y-Yeah\u2026 -Um. That&#8217;s pretty cheap.<br \/>\n-It&#8217;s a used club, too. Don&#8217;t slice it there! It&#8217;ll go off the cliff! C&#8217;mon! I hope I chose the right driver! The swallow maneuver! Alright! I did it! It went through! Go! Flying fish ball! Everyone was blown away<br \/>\nby your playing style. I just played like I usually did, though. It&#8217;s your &#8220;usual&#8221; playing style<br \/>\nthat blows me away as well. Alright! I didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d end up<br \/>\nat the same school. I&#8217;m relieved! I was nervous about<br \/>\ngoing to school on my own. Why are you crying? It&#8217;s because you&#8217;ve grown<br \/>\ninto a high school student\u2026 Exchanging contact info with your senior\u2026 You said something similar<br \/>\nat my graduation ceremony. Igaiga, your nose is running! A thirty-eight? I said no more than one over! That&#8217;s when you suddenly<br \/>\nsnapped at her father. Yeah, I just lost my temper<br \/>\nfor a second there. And what makes you think<br \/>\nit was just a little breeze? You were indoors weren&#8217;t you?<br \/>\nHow could you know? In a scary face competition,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d win for sure. Come on\u2026 -A competition?<br \/>\n-Yes. The Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open is next month. They&#8217;re holding it at Chuo Country Club! What are you going to do, Tonbo? What do you mean? Dad! I was shocked I would be<br \/>\nparticipating in a tournament! No way. That&#8217;s why Tonbo<br \/>\nleft her island in the first place! Hajime put in so much effort to help you. I can&#8217;t thank the Udo family enough. I&#8217;m putting Tonbo<br \/>\nin the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open! And wasn&#8217;t there someone else<br \/>\nfrom the Udo family who helped you? Someone else? Who&#8217;s there? Stay away from me! Calm down, Tonbo! So sorry to scare you. This used to be my bedroom, actually. Nikome Udo, a tour pro. She returns home feeling down in the dumps<br \/>\nevery time she fails to qualify. I know that feeling all too well\u2026 She gave me golf shoes and she told me something very important<br \/>\nfor being able to continue playing golf. Do you want to be a pro someday, Tonbo? -I&#8217;m not sure.<br \/>\n-I understand. You&#8217;ve never even been<br \/>\nin a competition before. That&#8217;s okay. First, you have to fall in love with golf. That comes first. Fall in love with golf. When you really love something,<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t help but do your best. Good night. Hinoki gave me a golfbag. Hajime gave me a six-iron. And someone from the country club<br \/>\ngave me a nine-iron. Together with your three-iron,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s seven clubs in total. -That&#8217;s called a half set.<br \/>\n-I know that! A half set\u2026 That&#8217;s so cool. I feel like a pro! I crossed paths with someone on<br \/>\nday one of the Kyushu Women&#8217;s Open! Tonbo! It really is you! Tsubura! You&#8217;re really here! I&#8217;m going to high school in Kumamoto. You&#8217;re so brave. I&#8217;m so happy! Igaiga. Grandpa Gon. Setsu. Yoko. Bunpei. Hidaka. My first tournament has started. I wish I&#8217;d been there! Don&#8217;t worry. I hit the ball<br \/>\nall the way to the island. Alright! N-Nice eagle. An eagle? That&#8217;s one hell of a debut! I wish I could have seen it! I shouldn&#8217;t have gone back to the island! Hidaka and Bunpei would have been upset! Mrs. Shima, from our group, was<br \/>\nplaying for the third time already. She&#8217;s such a nice person. I&#8217;m sorry. Am I causing trouble? Ms. Matsuda, who was also in our group, was off her game, and I was scared of her. But then, Mrs. Shima said\u2026 But you know, you can&#8217;t recover from<br \/>\nyour mistakes all at once. There&#8217;s a whole 18 holes<br \/>\nto set things straight. If you&#8217;re at the end of the game<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s nothing left to do, you still have your<br \/>\nwhole life ahead of you. If you can improve<br \/>\nyour lifetime stroke average even by one point, that&#8217;s<br \/>\nsomething to be proud of! My lifetime average? What wise words\u2026 Thanks to her words,<br \/>\nsomeone who I thought was scary, suddenly became much more easygoing. Wow! Number one! Incredible! -I wish I could have seen it\u2026<br \/>\n-Enough already! Mrs. Shima\u2026 -What a shame\u2026<br \/>\n-Yes. But she told me something very important. Yes. It was good that you met her. That&#8217;s how much I love golf. I&#8217;m so glad I got to play<br \/>\nwith you, Mrs. Shima. I&#8217;d love to play with you again someday. Thank you, Tonbo. It sure is crowded. On the second day, I met someone new. Ema Kurisu, a former<br \/>\nWorld Junior Champion. A lefty? She suffered a major left leg injury and started playing<br \/>\nleft-handed to overcome it. I played a round with her,<br \/>\nTsubura, and Hinoki. Once again, I&#8217;ll be your caddy, Hata.<br \/>\nI look forward to playing with you. Thank you. Ema&#8217;s determination really inspired me. It reminded me of when Tsubura shared<br \/>\nher dreams back on Hinoshima. Her passion for golf\u2026 I can learn from that myself. Everyone&#8217;s got this<br \/>\namazing dedication to the game. In America, all sorts of scary creatures<br \/>\nlive in the lakes on golf courses. You mean, alligators? I lost my ability to swing and<br \/>\nmake shots as beautiful as yours. However, it hasn&#8217;t been all bad. I&#8217;m happy to be able to play at all. I&#8217;m grateful that I&#8217;m able to play golf. I think that might be<br \/>\nmy greatest strength. On the second day, I scored 77,<br \/>\n10 strokes worse than my opening round\u2026 That&#8217;s when\u2026 Tonbo! What are you doing here?<br \/>\nYou came to get me? You&#8217;re doing great. You started crying then. Were you that happy to see me? No! Nothing like that. I\u2026 I was just happy to see you<br \/>\nafter all that time. I missed the island. -I was just hopesick!<br \/>\n-You surely mean &#8220;homesick&#8221;? Remember that tool you used<br \/>\nto dispatch octopi and fish? At first, I didn&#8217;t understand your advice. -But it worked!<br \/>\n-I know, right?! Were you surprised when you heard<br \/>\nI was in first place on day one? Actually, it didn&#8217;t surprise<br \/>\nme all that much. Oh? I was happy more than anything. And not only me. Everyone on the island was smiling. Everyone on the island is rooting for you. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;ve become<br \/>\nthe pride of the whole island. They&#8217;re happy you&#8217;re one of them. Don&#8217;t worry about your score! Play your way! Show us<br \/>\nthat special Tonbo style! Okay! Go! Flying fish ball! What? That stance! She avoided the sand! What? I knew that would work! This is so fun! Igaiga is over there. Alright. Alright! Right on target! Oh? Alright! My first birdie! If you make a mistake on this hole,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll be down by four. Down by four with three holes left. You won&#8217;t be able to win. In other words, don&#8217;t hit a bogey<br \/>\nif you still want to win. If I still want to win\u2026 I was waiting for something<br \/>\nto spark inside of you. Yeah. I could feel it<br \/>\nfrom the 15th hole onward. What is this? No. I want to win. Everyone on the island<br \/>\nwill be so happy if I win. I want to make them happy. I want to win. I get it now. I&#8217;m nervous. I&#8217;m under pressure. I don&#8217;t care about chance. By acknowledging the pressure I&#8217;m under, I&#8217;m ready to face it head on. I may fail. This is a scary shot. This is the first time<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve ever felt this. So this is real golf. Come on. Crab ball! Please! Get there! No way. Alright! This was the hole where I first sensed<br \/>\nthe pressure you warned me about. And I felt that up to the final hole. Tonbo\u2026 But you know, whenever<br \/>\nI would overthink things, I could hear you cheering me on. Here I go. Just like Igaiga told me. You&#8217;re not aiming for the fairway at all! It&#8217;s just like I told her.<br \/>\nThe score doesn&#8217;t matter. Give it your all! Win this thing! Thanks to you, I finally realized<br \/>\nthe true meaning of golf. So close! Why didn&#8217;t it go in?! You jinxed it, Igaiga. That was fun! The last group was Tsubura,<br \/>\nHinoki, Ema, and me. Go through! By the third day,<br \/>\nthe strain on her leg had gotten worse. I did it! But Ema was holding back<br \/>\nthe pain and fell down at the end. That kind of mental resolve<br \/>\nis rare among players. Still, competitions can be ruthless\u2026 Yahoo! Now it&#8217;s the playoffs, Hinoki! No. You&#8217;re wrong. What? Hinoki. Yesterday, on the fifth hole. I made my ball move! But I didn&#8217;t report it! But I kept playing. I continued on! I\u2026 I\u2026 \u2026forfeit the game! That must have been<br \/>\nsuch a difficult situation for Hinoki. A foul is a foul, though. It took a lot of guts to confess that. She has my respect. Same. You talked to Hinoki with kind words and Hajime encouraged her as well. I was so happy for that. Hinoki. You&#8217;re not going to quit, are you? Tonbo. I&#8217;m not quitting. You know, Igaiga\u2026 Since I left the island, I&#8217;ve<br \/>\ngrown to love golf even more. It&#8217;s not about setting goals<br \/>\nor aiming for something. Just loving the game is enough for me. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve realized. I see. And that means I&#8217;m going<br \/>\nto keep loving golf more and more! Alright! Let&#8217;s eat Grandpa Gon&#8217;s fish and<br \/>\nSetsu&#8217;s cooking till we&#8217;re stuffed! Not training? Typically Tonbo, huh? Okay! Time for a bath and then dinner! 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