{"id":253556,"date":"2025-11-09T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253556\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:59:10","slug":"toto-japan-classic-nasa-hataoka-wins-a-playoff-hole-in-rain-shortened-final-day-to-claim-seventh-lpga-tour-title-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253556\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Japan Classic: Nasa Hataoka wins a playoff hole in rain-shortened final day to claim seventh LPGA Tour title | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasa Hataoka won a play-off on Sunday to take the LPGA&#8217;s Toto Japan Classic after the final 18 holes were washed out by persistent rain all day and officials said it was &#8220;unplayable course conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hataoka and fellow Japanese golfer Yuna Araki shared the lead on Saturday after 54 holes at 15-under at the Seta Golf Club in western Japan.<\/p>\n<p>After rain wiped out regulation play on Sunday, Hataoka prevailed on the first play-off hole to break the tie and claim her seventh title on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first three rounds, Hataoka shared the lead with different golfers each time.<\/p>\n<p>Miyu Yamashita, who won the Maybank Championship in Malaysia last week, carded a 68 on Saturday and finished one stroke behind after 54 holes.<\/p>\n<p>Yamashita was followed by Shuri Sakuma (69), who finished three back, and Ai Suzuki (70), who was four off the lead after 54 holes.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/golfnow-logo.png\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-image\" alt=\"Golf Now logo.\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\">Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK &amp; Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Rio Takeda, who was not in contention all week, had a 68 on Saturday and finished nine shots behind.<\/p>\n<p>Minjee Lee of Australia, one of the highest profile players in the field, finished 14 behind the leaders after a 74 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n<p>The LPGA Tour continues with The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican starting on Thursday, November 13, live on Sky Sports Golf from 3pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa Hataoka won a play-off on Sunday to take the LPGA&#8217;s Toto Japan Classic after the final 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-253556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}