KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia \u2014 Miyu Yamashita successfully defended her title at the LPGA Tour\u2019s Maybank Championship on Sunday, beating China\u2019s Yan Liu by two strokes.<\/p>\n
The\u00a02025 Women\u2019s British Open winner\u00a0and third-round leader had a 72-hole total of 22-under 266 after a final round 68 on the Kuala Lumpur\u00a0Golf\u00a0and Country Club course. She won last year\u2019s Malaysian tournament after a\u00a0three-way playoff.<\/p>\n
The Japanese golfer had five birdies Sunday, for just the one bogey at the par-4 9th, in a near perfect week where she led from Friday’s second round until the final hole.<\/p>\n
It was the 25-year-old’s fifth career title and second in the LPGA Tour this season after she took a wire-to-wire, nine-stroke victory in the\u00a0CPKC Women\u2019s Open\u00a0at Royal Mayfair in Edmonton in August.<\/p>\n
On the back of Saturday’s 63 to surge into contention, Yan kept in touch throughout the final round as she also shot a 68, but couldn’t quite close the gap to the nerveless Yamashita and finished at 18-under 268.<\/p>\n
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, who led after the first round, shot 69 Sunday and was tied for third with amateur player Marisa Tojai (67) of Thailand a further shot back.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Robyn Choi was fifth at 17-under 271 after a 69.<\/p>\n
Next week, the LPGA\u2019s four-week, late-season Asian swing ends with the Toto Japan Classic at Omitama outside Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia \u2014 Miyu Yamashita successfully defended her title at the LPGA Tour\u2019s Maybank Championship on Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-954436","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\/954436","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=954436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}