{"id":268664,"date":"2025-11-07T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268664\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:20:18","slug":"miyu-yamashita-wins-lpga-malaysia-event-after-3-way-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268664\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyu Yamashita wins LPGA Malaysia event after 3-way playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Women’s Open winner Miyu Yamashita<\/a> of Japan has won the LPGA’s Maybank Championship in a three-way playoff Sunday for her second career title in only her first full year on the tour.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old golfer sealed the victory with a birdie on the first playoff hole, while three-round leader Hye-Jin Choi<\/a> of South Korea and Australia’s Hannah Green<\/a> could manage only pars. The win adds the Maybank title to Yamashita’s first major triumph in August.<\/p>\n

The Japanese player matched the day’s lowest round of 65 to swiftly climb up a congested leaderboard to 18-under 270 at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club course.<\/p>\n

Choi, who began the final round with a four-stroke lead, struggled to convert key putts as her advantage slipped away.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Choi now has 29 career top-10 finishes but has yet to find her breakthrough win on the tour. It’s also the third time she has led a tournament heading into the final round and finished runner-up.<\/p>\n

Green, a member of the winning Australia team at the International Crown last weekend, shot a streaky 68 — with seven birdies and three bogies — which included a nerveless birdie at the last to join Choi and Yamashita in the playoff.<\/p>\n

World No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul<\/a> (68), China’s Liu Yan<\/a> (65), Akie Iwai<\/a> (67) of Japan and South Korean pair A Lim Kim<\/a> (68) and Kim Sei-Young<\/a> (66) were all tied for fourth place at 17 under, one shot behind the leading trio.<\/p>\n

Thitikul, a runner-up in Malaysia the past two years, had a bogey on the 16th that ended the Thai player’s late charge for a breakthrough win in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

An hourlong delay because of rain after the leaders had made the turn added to the tension on a congested leaderboard. When play resumed, Choi found her way back into contention with a clutch birdie at the par-4 16th that had just enough pace to drop in.<\/p>\n

Green then joined Choi and Yamashita in the playoff before another rain shower delayed the playoff for more than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Yin Ruoning<\/a> shot 70 for a 12th-place finish at 14-under 274, four strokes behind.<\/p>\n

Brooke Henderson<\/a> also shot 70 and was tied for 27th.<\/p>\n

Next week, the LPGA ends its five-week Asian swing with the Japan Classic at Shiga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Women’s Open winner Miyu Yamashita of Japan has won the LPGA’s Maybank Championship in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-268664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}