Filipino Japanese teenager and Japan LPGA Tour player Yuka Saso won the U.S. Women’s Open beating Nasa Hataoka in a three-hole playoff after the pair finished the final round tied for the lead at 4-under.
A dual citizen with a Filipino mother and Japanese father, Saso tied Park Inbee as the youngest champion at the tournament, winning at exactly the same age — 19 years, 11 months, 17 days — as the South Korean was when she won in 2008.
Only two other women with Japanese citizenship have won majors — Hisako Higuchi at the 1977 LPGA Championship and Hinako Shibuno at the 2019 Women’s British Open.
After finishing the final round at San Francisco’s Olympic Club one stroke ahead of the overnight leader, American Lexi Thompson, Saso and Hataoka remained deadlocked through two playoff holes, which they both parred.
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