Learn more<\/a><\/p>\nThe chasing pack will need to go full steam ahead Sunday if they have any chance to catch Yamashita.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tied for second at 13 under are Gina Kim and Yuri Yoshida, while Jennifer Kupcho is 12 under and Somi Lee is 11 under.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amongst those a little further down is Canadian Aphrodite Deng. Deng, who is just 16, moved up more than 20 spots on the leaderboard Saturday thanks to a tidy, bogey-free 63 \u2014 the round of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year, as a 15-year-old, Deng finished as low amateur at the CPKC Women\u2019s Open and\u00a0now she\u2019s looking to do one better and earn low Canadian honours. Deng admitted she learned lots through her first two\u00a0days at Royal Mayfair and was eager to minimize her mistakes on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFelt really great,\u201d Deng said. \u201cBut I wasn\u2019t really counting how low I was shooting. I was just trying to play as best I can.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fellow Canadians Brooke Henderson and Anna Huang sit at 7 under and tied for 15th. Henderson got off to a rocky start and was sitting at 1 over for her day through 13 holes. But she rallied with three birdies in a row on Nos. 14-16. Her day was close to being a really good one, she said, but she missed a handful of putts by mere inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I think it just came down to a few putts. I missed quite a few inside six feet today, honestly, which I haven\u2019t been doing, so it was a little bit unusual,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cHonestly,\u00a0I feel like I didn’t get out of my round what I really should have. I hit 16 greens and gave myself a lot of good looks, so it’s disappointing to only shoot 2-under.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the same breath, I’m really grateful for those three birdies on the back nine to kind of get myself back into it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After having a tough start to her 2026 campaign, Henderson has rallied through the summer months. She hasn\u2019t missed a cut since May and is trending towards her sixth\u00a0top-25\u00a0finish of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone in the field, including Henderson, knows that Yamashita\u00a0has\u00a0an almost insurmountable advantage heading into Sunday\u2019s finale. But that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not still a fine finish to shoot for\u00a0for\u00a0the defending champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think at this point\u00a0(Yamashita is)\u00a0playing really well and she has a substantial lead on most everybody, so at this point I’m just trying to get a really good finish for myself,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cSeeing if I can go low tomorrow just so I can feel really good about how I played the last four days tomorrow afternoon. So just trying to focus on myself and seeing what I can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeel like I’ve been really close; just didn’t really turn it over.\u00a0But one more day, so we’ll see if we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 The Miyu Yamashita train keeps rolling at the CPKC Women\u2019s Open and her record-setting pace through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-868074","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\/868074","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=868074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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