R&A : AIG Women's Open Leaderboard
After a week of hot by British standards, sunny, breezy week on Royal Lytham and St Annes on the NW coast of England, hard by the Irish Sea, it took a two hole playoff to decide the 2026 Women's Open.
Last year in at Royal Porthcawl in Wales, a diminutive Japanese, Miya Yamashita defied her stature with a two shot win, withstanding a Sunday charge from Charley Hull.
This year another Asian girl, who plays mostly in Japan, and only once at the Open last year when she MC, Shiho Kuwaka outlasted German, Esther Henseleit in a two hole playoff for her 2nd LPGA/LET win this year.
" It was a thrill to play in this most historic Open in front of the fans who turned out to cheer for us, also last week in Japan there was an earthquake, I want to wish everybody there well.
It was amazing to be the 2nd Japanese winner in a row after Miya last year, I only hope more women like us can continue to come through."
This was a record for women's golf $1,500,000
The German star can add this runner up medal to the Silver she won at the Olympics.
Three Japanese women have won this Women's Open in the last eight years and remarkably 12 of the last 20 winners back to 2007 have been of Asian descent.
Brooke Henderson the lone Canadian has posted 72 on Saturday, T27 72 72 72 +3.
On Sunday she shot her 4th straight 72, +4 total T29 worth $72,345.
Bryan Angus
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