{"id":842966,"date":"2026-08-02T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:16:13","slug":"shiho-kuwaki-of-japan-wins-the-womens-british-open-on-second-playoff-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842966\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiho Kuwaki of Japan wins the Women&#8217;s British Open on second playoff hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) \u2014 Shiho Kuwaki of Japan saved par to stay alive in a sudden-death playoff Sunday and won with a par on the second extra hole to claim the Women\u2019s British Open over Esther Henseleit of Germany for her first major title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kuwaki closed with a 1-under 70 and looked like a winner in regulation until Henseleit holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Royal Lytham &amp; St. Annes for a 70 to join Kuwaki at 5-under 279.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Henseleit then had the advantage in the playoff when the 23-year-old from Japan was in deep grass short of a bunker and had to lay up short of the green. Kuwaki hit wedge to 3 feet to save par and got another chance when Henseleit missed a 15-foot birdie putt for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) \u2014 Shiho Kuwaki of Japan saved par to stay alive in a sudden-death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-842966","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\/842966","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=842966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}