Among those who crashed and burned were 20-year-old Ryo Ishikawa (78) and 23-year-old Rickie Fowler (76).
Mr Ishikawa, however, believes that Ball is well on the way to overcoming these obstacles.
Mr Ishikawa's spheres, by contrast, can be wafted along tubes on a cushion of gas.
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As a former president of Texas Instruments Japan, Mr Ishikawa presumably knows what he is talking about.
Japan's Ryo Ishikawa previously held the record when he won on the Japan Tour in 2007, aged 15.
The youngest to ever compete in the PGA Championship: Japanese player, Ryo Ishikawa, who played the 2 009 tournament.
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Mickelson ended alongside Ernie Els, Dustin Johnson and Ryo Ishikawa with Paul Casey in a group at even par.
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Ryo Ishikawa had the lowest round on a major tour, shooting a 12-under 58 on the Japan Tour in 2010.
Elsewhere in the foursomes, Tiger Woods and partner Steve Stricker beat Australian Geoff Ogilvy and Japan's Ryo Ishikawa six and four.
The world record is a 12-under 58 by young Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa at a tournament in his home country in 2010.
Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor at Tokyo University who died in 1989, is attributed with much of the development of the idea of quality circles.
Mr Ishikawa is therefore betting that, in the long run, his competitors will end up adopting his technology as the only way to offer increasing performance and falling costs.
Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan s main island, Honshu.
Quail Hollow champion Rickie Fowler also shot 69 to be third on five-under 211, one ahead of Woods, while Japan's Ryo Ishikawa was tied for fifth on 213 with Sweden's Henrik Stenson and American Jonathan Byrd.
With today's enormous purses on Tour, and younger, more fully developed players like Rory McIlroy and Ryo Ishikawa arriving from around the world, DiMarco said that going forward, fewer players might play as long as he and Kelly.
Hiroshi Saito, a tourism-promotion official in Ishikawa, said his prefecture saw a 45% increase in the number of foreign visitors to its famous Kenrokuen garden for the first three months of this year, compared with the same period a year earlier.
Justin "golf gives me a mental release" Timberlake has done his bit here and sites like OriginalPenguin.com and TrendyGolf.com are certainly the way forward, but Japan's Ryo Ishikawa (sponsored by Yonex) is shaping up to be golf's first proper style icon.
Canadian Mike Weir and South Africa Ernie Els were on top for the international side as they beat Jim Furyk and Anthony Kim while Asian pair Yang Yong-Eun and Ryo Ishikawa recorded an emphatic victory, downing Kenny Perry and Sean O'Hair 4 and 3.
Trading could turn volatile once the dollar breaks above Y100, with it either shooting toward Y101 due to technical orders and short-term speculation, or quickly retreating as those who are short the yen take profits, said Junichi Ishikawa, market analyst at IG Securities in Tokyo.
England's Poulter, who was one of the early starters to benefit from a lighter breeze and smoother greens on the fast-running course, shared a tie for fourth with Spanish debutant Rafael Cabrera-Bello, South Korea's KJ Choi, Canada's 2003 Masters champion Mike Weir, Germany's Alex Cejka and Japanese 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa.
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