PORTHCAWL, Wales (AP) — Miyu Yamashita of Japan captured her first main title Sunday when she withstood a cost by Charley Hull by not making a bogey till the end result of the Girls’s British Open was not unsure. She closed with a 2-under 70 for a two-shot victory.
Yamashita holed two huge par putts on the again 9 at Royal Porthcawl, the final one when Hull had closed to inside one shot of the lead.
Her ultimate check was the 401-yard sixteenth, one of many hardest on the course. Yamashita, who turned 24 on Saturday, drilled her drive down the center and located the inexperienced, almost holing a 45-foot putt. That gave her a three-shot lead with two holes to play.
Her ultimate act was a tap-in for par to complete on 11-under 277, and she or he raised each arms to have a good time. Yamashita wiped away tears as she headed to the scoring trailer.
“To be part of such a moment in history is something very, very special,” Yamashita mentioned by means of an interpreter on the trophy presentation.
Hull gave it her greatest shot. She began the ultimate spherical three pictures behind, made three birdies in a four-hole stretch to get into the combination after which holed a 20-foot birdie on the 14th to get inside one shot of the lead.
Behind her on the course, Yamashita hit right into a bunker off the tee on the par-5 thirteenth, blasted out and nonetheless had a good distance for her third, lacking the inexperienced to the left. She chipped weakly to 18 toes and buried the par putt.
She additionally poured in an 8-foot par putt to remain at 12 beneath, proper after Hull bought to 11 beneath.
The English star blinked first. Hull didn’t get any assist from the wind on her tee shot on the sixteenth, which discovered a pot bunker and left her no likelihood of reaching the inexperienced. Her third shot bounded off the again of the inexperienced, and she or he needed to make a 20-footer to flee with bogey.
Hull runner-up once more
Hull bogeyed the seventeenth, and her possibilities had been executed. She closed with a 69 and completed as a runner-up in a significant for the fourth time. Minami Katsu was by no means critically within the combine, however her closing birdie gave her a 69 to tie for second.
“I felt pretty good about how I fought back over the weekend,” mentioned Hull, who was 11 pictures behind after two rounds.
“I don’t feel like I’ve actually mucked it up by mishitting any shots, which I think everybody can probably agree, you know what I mean? Like I played so solid.”
A Lim Kim, the 2020 U.S. Girls’s Open champion, hit wedge to five toes for birdie on the second gap to tie Yamashita for the lead. However she made a collection of blunders, beginning with a three-putt on the third gap, and fell again. She had six bogeys in her spherical of 73 and tied for fourth with Rio Takeda (71).
“I love the challenge because still now a little pain in my heart, but that is good motivation for me,” Kim mentioned. “So I’m going to keep working on it.”
Japan’s success
4 gamers from Japan have now gained the final 9 majors in ladies’s golf, and this was the second 12 months there have been two Japanese main champions. Mao Saigo gained the primary main on the Chevron Championship. Ayaka Furue (Evian Championship) and Yuka Saso (U.S. Girls’s Open) gained majors final 12 months.
Yamashita turned a first-time winner on the LPGA Tour, extending a streak through which there has not been a a number of winner by means of 20 tournaments to begin the 12 months.
There’s additionally probably a change on this planet rating. Nelly Korda closed with a 75, and projections point out she is going to fall to No. 2 behind Jeeno Thitikul. Korda had been No. 1 since March 2024. She tied for thirty sixth and now has gone 14 tournaments and not using a win, relationship to final November.
This is able to be the second time Thitikul is No. 1 within the ladies’s world rating. She was additionally No. 1 for 2 weeks within the fall of 2022.
Yamashita didn’t have the most effective birthday, at the least contained in the ropes, when she struggled off the tee and on the greens in a spherical of 74 that left her clinging to a one-shot lead. However she stayed on the vary together with her father till late into the night, and she or he discovered a repair.
Highlight on Woad
Lottie Woad, coming off a victory within the Girls’s Scottish Open in her skilled debut, closed Sunday with a 71 and tied for eighth. In her final 4 occasions, Woad has gained the Girls’s Irish Open and missed a playoff by one shot within the Evian Championship, each as an novice.
She has a win and a high 10 in her two begins as a professional.
“I don’t think it affected my golf, but it was definitely a lot more attention, a lot more eyes on me,” Woad mentioned. “I feel like I handled it pretty well overall and was just sticking to my game, just trying to focus on the prep really and not let it distract me too much.”
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