{"id":869517,"date":"2026-08-24T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:06:30","slug":"golf-yamashita-wins-cpkc-womens-open-yoshida-2nd-in-japanese-1-2-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869517\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf: Yamashita wins CPKC Women&#8217;s Open, Yoshida 2nd in Japanese 1-2 finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, Canada &#8211; Japanese golfer Miyu Yamashita extended her six-shot overnight lead with a 4-under-par 66 in the final round to complete a wire-to-wire victory at the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Her 23-under total of 257 matched the LPGA 72-hole scoring record and saw her finish nine strokes clear of second-place Yuri Yoshida in a 1-2 finish for Japan at Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Yamashita, the 2025 Women&#8217;s British Open winner, never looked back after laying the foundation for her fourth LPGA title with a course-record 62 in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old collected the winner&#8217;s check for $412,500 following her final round featuring six birdies, including the last hole, against two bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a day filled with tension, but I played a really good round,&#8221; said Yamashita, who smashed the previous tournament record of 262. &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad I could finish with a birdie. I played well throughout the four days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the smallest players on the premier women&#8217;s tour at 150 centimeters, Yamashita marked her second victory of the season following her playoff win in June at the Meijer LPGA Classic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to have secured two wins this season. I want to keep working hard and aim for victory in the remaining tournaments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Kim Sei Young finished third, one stroke back from Yoshida at 13 under, while Mao Saigo was next best among the Japanese contingent at 7 under in a tie for 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Yamashita, a native of Osaka Prefecture, made her full LPGA debut last year and went on to win the tour&#8217;s Rookie of the Year award. She won back-to-back overall season titles on the top Japanese women&#8217;s tour in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Canada &#8211; Japanese golfer Miyu Yamashita extended her six-shot overnight lead with a 4-under-par 66 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-869517","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\/869517","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=869517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}