The Women’s Open champion won for the second time this season on the LPGA Tour, joining world No.1 Jeeno Thitikul as the lone two-time winners this year.
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.
Steph Kyriacou’s final round couldn’t have gotten off to a much poorer start at the AIG Women’s Open, but a gritty and determined fightback saw her record a third consecutive under-par round to secure Australian bragging rights at Royal Porthcawl.
Shooting to join fellow Japanese star Mao Saigo as an LPGA major winner this season, Miyu Yamashita shot a two-over 74 in the third round to maintain a lead – albeit a slim one at one shot – in the final major of the year.
Japan’s Miyu Yamashita sits at 11-under and leads by three shots, as Steph Kyriacou, Grace Kim and Minjee Lee were the only Australians to survive the halfway cut at Royal Porthcawl.
Despite never having won on the LPGA before and this being her first time playing the Toto Japan Classic, Dryburgh was unexpectedly comfortable in the moment.