{"id":26047,"date":"2025-11-02T22:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/miyu-yamashita-wins-lpga-malaysia-tournament-after-3-way-playoff\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:22:28","slug":"miyu-yamashita-wins-lpga-malaysia-tournament-after-3-way-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/miyu-yamashita-wins-lpga-malaysia-tournament-after-3-way-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyu Yamashita wins LPGA Malaysia tournament after 3-way playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Women’s Open winner Miyu Yamashita of Japan won the LPGA Maybank Championship in a three-way playoff on Sunday, clinching her second career title in her first year on tour.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old golfer clinched victory with a birdie on the first hole of the playoff, but third-round leader Choi Hye-jin of South Korea and Australia’s Hannah Green could only make par. The victory added the Maybank title to Yamashita’s first major win in August.<\/p>\n

The Japanese player matched his lowest round of the day with a 65 at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club course and rocketed up the crowded leaderboard to 18-under 270.<\/p>\n

Choi, who started the final round with a four-stroke lead, lost his advantage and struggled to make important putts.<\/p>\n

Choi, 26, currently has 29 top-10 finishes in his career, but has yet to score a breakthrough win on tour. This is the third time she has led the tournament heading into the final round and finished as runner-up.<\/p>\n

Green, part of the Australian team that won last weekend’s International Crown, shot a straight 68 with seven birdies and three bogeys, including a nerve-wracking birdie at the end, to give Choi and Yamashita a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

World No. 1 Gino Titikul (68), China’s Liu Yang (65), Japan’s Akie Iwai (67), and South Korean pair Ah Lim Kim (68) and Kim Sei-young (66) tied for fourth place at 17 under, one stroke behind the leading trio.<\/p>\n

Titikul, who has been runner-up in Malaysia for the past two years, bogeyed the 16th hole to end the Thai’s late onslaught for a breakthrough victory in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

Rain after the leaders completed their turns caused an hour delay, further adding to the tension on the crowded leaderboard. When play resumed, Choi got back into contention with a clutch birdie on the par-4 16th, where he had enough pace to fall.<\/p>\n

Green then joined Choi and Yamashita in the playoffs, but it rained again and the playoffs were delayed by more than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Ying Ruoning shot a 70 and finished 12th at 14-under 274, four strokes behind.<\/p>\n

Brooke Henderson also shot a 70, tied for 27th place.<\/p>\n

Next week, the LPGA concludes its five-week Asian swing with the Japan Classic in Shiga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Women’s Open winner Miyu Yamashita of Japan won the LPGA Maybank Championship in a three-way playoff on Sunday, clinching her second career title in her first year on tour. The 24-year-old golfer clinched victory with a birdie on the first hole of the playoff, but third-round leader Choi Hye-jin of South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-26047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}