OMITAMA, Japan – Japan’s Shuri Sakuma won the Toto Japan Classic on Sunday, giving Japanese players a third consecutive victory on the U.S. LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n
The tournament at Taiheiyo Club Minori Course in Ibaraki Prefecture is jointly sanctioned by the U.S. LPGA Tour and the Japan LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Sakuma shot an 8-under-par 64 in the final round to finish at 20-under 268, four strokes ahead of compatriot Akie Iwai, with Erika Hara finishing third.<\/p>\n
Starting the day three shots behind overnight leader Iwai in fifth place, Sakuma rallied from behind to claim the title and the winner’s check for $315,000.<\/p>\n
Among Japanese golfers, Yuri Yoshida clinched the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea on Oct. 25, and Miyu Yamashita won the Maybank Championship in Malaysia on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n
“I was able to play well in the latter half,” Sakuma said after her come-from-behind victory.<\/p>\n
After claiming her second straight JLPGA Tour title and fifth of the season, Sakuma said, “I am really happy to be able to achieve what I couldn’t last year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMITAMA, Japan – Japan’s Shuri Sakuma won the Toto Japan Classic on Sunday, giving Japanese players a third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-956890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956890","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=956890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}