{"id":26267,"date":"2025-11-07T02:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/hataoka-maintains-lead-in-japan-classic-with-2nd-round-68\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:47:49","slug":"hataoka-maintains-lead-in-japan-classic-with-2nd-round-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/hataoka-maintains-lead-in-japan-classic-with-2nd-round-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Hataoka maintains lead in Japan Classic with 2nd round 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Otsu City &#8212; Japanese golfer Nasa Hataoka and South Korea&#8217;s Shin Jiyai topped the leaderboard after the second round of the LPGA TOTO Japan Classic on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hataoka shot a 4-under 68, and Shin shot a 67, for a two-round total of 11-under 133. Miyu Yamashita of Japan, who shared the lead with Hataoka after the first round, shot a 69 at Seta Golf Club in western Japan, closing in on the lead by one stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Three more Japanese golfers are just two strokes behind the leader: Sayaka Takahashi (67), Ai Suzuki (67) and Juri Sakuma (66).<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Rio Takeda of Japan was nine shots behind after a second round 69.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Minjee Lee, one of the best-known players in the field, shot a 1-over 73, leaving her eight strokes behind the leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otsu City &#8212; Japanese golfer Nasa Hataoka and South Korea&#8217;s Shin Jiyai topped the leaderboard after the second round of the LPGA TOTO Japan Classic on Friday. Hataoka shot a 4-under 68, and Shin shot a 67, for a two-round total of 11-under 133. Miyu Yamashita of Japan, who shared the lead with Hataoka after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-26267","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\/26267","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=26267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}