GUANGLAN, China \u2014 Canadian amateur Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont., finished runner-up in a playoff at the GolfJoy Women\u2019s Open on Saturday, narrowly missing out on the title after a strong final-round performance.<\/p>\n
Liu, 17, a member of Golf Canada\u2019s Team Canada NextGen squad, carded a bogey-free, six-under 66 to climb into a tie for the lead at 11-under-par 205 alongside China\u2019s Ren Yijia at the CLPG Tour event held on the Olazabal Course at Mission Hills Golf Club Dongguan.<\/p>\n
Ren secured the victory on the first playoff hole, converting a birdie from inside eight feet on the par-4 18th after Liu\u2019s birdie attempt from approximately 20 feet slid past.<\/p>\n
Despite the playoff loss, Liu impressed in her CLPG Tour debut, staying in contention throughout the week and posting one of the lowest rounds of the day on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, I think I played pretty decent this week,\u201d said Liu. \u201cThere were some things I could have done better and some putts I probably could have made, but that\u2019s just golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liu surged into contention on the back nine, making five birdies over a seven-hole stretch starting at No. 9. She briefly held the outright lead after a birdie at the par-5 15th before Ren matched her with a birdie of her own. Both players closed regulation with three consecutive pars to force a playoff.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the playoff hole we both had pretty decent birdie chances,\u201d Liu said. \u201cI was a little bit further away and she made hers and I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result continues a strong stretch for Liu, the reigning Canadian Junior Girls champion, who is set to compete in next month\u2019s Chevron Championship \u2014 the first major of the LPGA Tour season. She has also committed to play collegiate golf at UCLA.<\/p>\n
Thailand\u2019s Onkanok Soisuwan and China\u2019s Sui Xiang finished tied for third at six-under, five shots back.<\/p>\n
The GolfJoy Women\u2019s Open marked the first full-field event of the 2026 CLPG Tour season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUANGLAN, China \u2014 Canadian amateur Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont., finished runner-up in a playoff at the GolfJoy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-567013","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\/567013","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=567013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}