{"id":276887,"date":"2025-11-07T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276887\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:22:06","slug":"hataoka-keeps-share-of-japan-classic-lead-with-second-round-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276887\/","title":{"rendered":"Hataoka keeps share of Japan Classic lead with second-round 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTSU, Japan &#8212; Japanese golfer Nasa Hataoka and Shin Ji-yai of South Korea sat atop the leaderboard Friday after the second round of the LPGA&#8217;s Toto Japan Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Hataoka shot a 4-under 68 and Shin shot a 67 for two-round totals of 11-under 133. <a data-player-guid=\"4aaa1730-dbef-3f4b-8232-6d2ee37d42db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/493978\/miyu-yamashita\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miyu Yamashita<\/a> of Japan, who shared the lead with Hataoka after the first round, was a stroke back of the leaders after a 69 at the Seta Golf Club in western Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Three more Japanese golfers were only two strokes off the lead: Sayaka Takahashi (67), Ai Suzuki (67) and Shuri Sakuma (66).<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Rio Takeda of Japan was nine shots behind after a second-round 69.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"f59cec60-2626-89d7-7d3a-bd23b6a39f21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/8036\/minjee-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minjee Lee<\/a> of Australia, among the best-known players in the field, shot 1-over 73 and was eight shots off the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTSU, Japan &#8212; Japanese golfer Nasa Hataoka and Shin Ji-yai of South Korea sat atop the leaderboard Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-276887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}