Miyu Yamashita, who won the LPGA’s Maybank Championship in Malaysia last weekend, is among three players atop the leaderboard after the first round of the Toto Japan Classic. World No.4 Yamashita and fellow Japanese players Aki Iwai and Sayaka Takahashi shot six-under-66s Taiheiyo Club Minori Course in Omitama, outside Tokyo, on Thursday for a one-stroke Read more…
A stunning third round at the Baycurrent Classic has given Adam Scott the ideal platform to secure his first win on the PGA Tour since February, 2020. Scott is aged 46, having shot to superstardom when he became Australia’s first Masters winner in 2013. But the veteran has made a mockery of his age at Read more…
Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott are within striking distance of the leaders after the second round of the Baycurrent Classic in Yokohama. Lee is just three shots behind Americans Jacob Bridgeman and Keith Mitchell after carding a second consecutive four-under 67 on Friday to sit joint seventh at eight under par after two rounds. Read more…
Min Woo Lee has given himself a chance to gain some sweet revenge, sitting four shots behind Presidents Cup rival Jacob Bridgeman after the opening round of the Baycurrent Classic in Japan.
Five Japanese golfers have won on the LPGA Tour this season, a contingent of immensely talented young players who entered the tour with a big splash this season.
Xander Schauffele travelled 12,000 kilometres from his home in Florida to Yokohama in Japan, but his emotional comeback victory at the Baycurrent Classic had the feel of a homecoming.
Matt McCarty may need a pat on the back and one of those ice-cold, extra-sudsy beers Japan is famous for after coughing up a potential 59 – or 58 – in the most devastating way during Sunday’s final round at the Baycurrent Classic outside Tokyo.
Before the emergence of now eight-time PGA Tour winner Hideki Matsuyama, Ishikawa was the darling amongst fans and Japanese media who were desperate to embrace a sporting hero that would inspire a golf-mad nation.
Xander Schauffele will make his fifth straight appearance at the Zozo Championship in Japan this week with every intention of completing a famous ‘double’ where he also won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.
Australian Golf Digest
