{"id":895024,"date":"2026-10-26T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:02:48","slug":"yuri-yoshida-edges-haeran-ryu-in-south-korea-for-first-lpga-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895024\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Yoshida edges Haeran Ryu in South Korea for first LPGA win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAENAM, South Korea \u2014 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/lpga\/yuri-yoshida-rallies-to-claim-first-lpga-tour-victory-at-bmw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuri Yoshida won the BMW Ladies Championship<\/a> holding off Haeran Ryu and Hye-Jin Choi in a close finish at Pine Beach Golf Links on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was Yoshida\u2019s first LPGA Tour victory and came in a dramatic finale as both overnight leader Ryu and Yoshida bogeyed the final hole leaving the Japanese player ahead by one stoke and a four-round total of 17-under 271.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida was four shots off the pace going into Sunday\u2019s final round but lit up the front nine with an eagle at the par-5 second, followed by three consecutive birdies to turn in 5-under 31. Bogeys at the 15th and 18th holes were offset by a crucial birdie at the 17th which gave the 26-year-old the buffer she needed.<\/p>\n<p>Ryu led the tournament by four strokes going into the final round, but couldn\u2019t find the same rhythm on Sunday as she shot 73 to finish at 16-under 272.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean player made 15 consecutive pars before dropping a shot at the par-4 16th which handed back Yoshida\u2019s one-shot advantage.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/golf-central\/yuri-yoshidas-stunning-bunker-shot-leads-to-birdie-at-17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Both players made birdie at the 17th,<\/a> but a costly miss for Ryu at the 18th allowed Yoshida to clinch it, despite the Japanese golfer also making bogey.<\/p>\n<p>Hye-Jin Choi, who was in a tie for second coming in the final round, stayed in contention throughout Sunday and mixed four birdies with a lone bogey to finish at 16-under 272. She finished a shot behind Yoshida in a tie for second with Ryu.<\/p>\n<p>Choi is still looking for her first victory in 125 career LPGA Tour starts as a member. Last week in Shanghai, Choi was runner-up by one stroke to China\u2019s Ruoning Yin after the South Korean golfer led after each of the first three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Sei Young Kim, who ended a five-year victory drought in 2025 with a win last year in South Korea, shot 70 Sunday and finished at 2-under 286 and a tie for 55th.<\/p>\n<p>In its late-season Asian swing, the LPGA Tour moves to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next week for the Maybank Championship, the third of four events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAENAM, South Korea \u2014 Yuri Yoshida won the BMW Ladies Championship holding off Haeran Ryu and Hye-Jin Choi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-895024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895024","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=895024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}