{"id":269823,"date":"2025-11-08T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:11:10","slug":"japanese-hataoka-and-araki-atop-the-leaderboard-after-the-third-round-of-the-toto-japan-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269823\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Hataoka and Araki atop the leaderboard after the third round of the Toto Japan Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTSU, Japan (AP) \u2014 Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Yuna Araki sat atop the leaderboard after Saturday&#8217;s third round of the LPGA&#8217;s Toto Japan Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Hataoka has shared the lead in each of the first three rounds, with different golfers each time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hataoka shot a 4-under 68 and Araki was in at 7-under 65 \u2014 both at 15-under 201 \u2014 at the Seta Golf Club in western Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Three more Japanese players were just off the pace going into Sunday&#8217;s final round. Miyu Yamashita, who won the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lpga-golf-malaysia-yamashita-playoff-win-maybank-fbcf011e9830374cfcf07f87816fb403\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Maybank Championship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Maybank Championship<\/a> in Malaysia last week, carded a 68 and was one stroke behind. She was followed by Shuri Sakuma (69), who is three back, and Ai Suzuki (70), four off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Rio Takeda, who has not been in contention all week, had a 68 and was nine shots behind.<\/p>\n<p>Minjee Lee of Australia, one of the highest profile players in the field, was 14 behind the leaders after a 74.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP Sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTSU, Japan (AP) \u2014 Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Yuna Araki sat atop the leaderboard after Saturday&#8217;s third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,2454,123893,3010,42098,29223,123339,123892,123894,82,123074,123891],"class_list":["post-269823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-japan","tag-japanese-players","tag-leaderboard","tag-lpga","tag-miyu-yamashita","tag-nasa-hataoka","tag-seta-golf-club","tag-shuri-sakuma","tag-sports","tag-toto-japan-classic","tag-yuna-araki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}