{"id":271557,"date":"2025-11-09T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:42:11","slug":"hataoka-araki-top-leaderboard-after-three-rounds-of-toto-japan-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271557\/","title":{"rendered":"Hataoka, Araki top leaderboard after three rounds of Toto Japan Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTSU, Japan (AP) \u2014 Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Yuna Araki sat atop the leaderboard after Saturday\u2019s third round of the LPGA\u2019s Toto Japan Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hataoka has shared the lead in each of the first three rounds, with different golfers each time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Three more Japanese players were just off the pace going into Sunday\u2019s final round. Miyu Yamashita, who won the Maybank Championship 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Defending champion Rio Takeda, who has not been in contention all week, had a 68 and was nine shots behind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Minjee Lee of Australia, one of the highest profile players in the field, was 14 behind the leaders after a 74.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP Sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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\u2019s third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-271557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271557","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=271557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}