OTSU, Japan — Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Miyu Yamashita each shot 7-under 65 on Thursday to stand atop the leaderboard after the first round of the LPGA’s Toto Japan Classic. Hataoka is looking ...

Japanese golfers have had an impressive showing in 2025 on the LPGA Tour—winning six of 29 tournaments entering this week's Toto Japan Classic—and that continued as the tour visited Seta Golf Course ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. OTSU, Japan (AP) — Nasa Hataoka won a playoff Sunday to take the LPGA's Toto Japan Classic after ...

Nasa Hataoka of Japan celebrates winning the tournament through the playoff following the final round of the TOTO Japan Classic 2025 at Seta Golf Course on November 9, 2025 in Otsu, Shiga, Japan. The ...

The LPGA Rankings on Jan 14 Rnk Prv Total 1. (1) Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand) 463.69 2. (2) Nelly Korda (USA) 260.65 3. (3) Minjee Lee (Australia) 269.65 4. (4) Miyu Yamashita (Japan) 320.20 5. (5) ...

Not long after Hiromi Kobayashi became chairman of the JLPGA, she told her staff that a Japanese player would win a major on an international level. The JLPGA hosts its own majors, of course, but ...

Sometimes Mother Nature has the final say. The final round of the Toto Japan Classic was canceled Sunday at Seta Golf Course in Siga, Japan, leaving Nasa Hataoka and Yuna Araki tied on top of the ...

OTSU, Japan — Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Miyu Yamashita each shot 7-under 65 on Thursday to stand atop the leaderboard after the first round of the LPGA’s Toto Japan Classic. Hataoka is looking ...

OTSU, Japan — Nasa Hataoka won a playoff Sunday to take the LPGA's Toto Japan Classic after the final 18 holes were washed out by all-day rain and what officials termed “unplayable course conditions.” ...