Miyu Yamashita 2026 Meijer Final Round

Call of the champion this year. The 8th ranked player in the world began today five off the lead. She picked up birdies at 124 and five and had this for Birdie at 7. That gets her to 14 under and she takes. She had a grip on things. She said they were just running out too much. We'll see if it's a factor today. This is near Yamashita. Found the rough here at the 10th Morgan. One of the easiest holes on the golf course. It's been a theme all week. Need to take advantage of these par fives. Smart play out so far this morning with really benign conditions. We've seen a lot of wind throughout the week, so this is a welcome change of pace as we catch up with Yamashita once again here at the 10th and this attempt for long range. Oh my goodness, Kelly. What a round she has put together. What is it like to be in this kind of zone? Morgan, you're just you don't wanna wake up. You don't wanna wake up from this dream. She knows teeing off a little bit ahead of the leaders having the opportunity to go out. No winds, no conditions to speak of. From Sydney, Australia, another young talent on the rise. This is Yamashita. The promised player of the golf course right now in the 11th. Good start, Angela. What a golf shot, paper shot, proper club. And what a sign of patience as well to work through all of that and then step up there and knock it right in the hole. Yamashita. So she can keep this magic going. She has yet to miss a green today. Power mindset. An Augusta National Women's amateur champion among other amateur accolades, a very decorated winner at such a young age, Yamashita. Coming out of the rough here at the 12th. Kind of shocked to see her come out of the rough, Kelly. She has. Had some fabulous ball striking only the second fairway she has. Let's get back to the 12th and it's a longer putt than we've seen her have most of the round, but still a chance to get the individual lead once again. I think it's interesting Kelly. You look at this leaderboard. You have Mew and Lottie who both were in contention finishing 1st and 3rd at the Kroger Queen Queen City Championship. Similar old style. Golf course. There's a lot. Of similar nature and visually where these two players really seem to excel in these types of golf courses. And here going toe to toe again today. As they say, it fits. We will head to the 16th and catch up with 19 year old Jana Wilson, who was part of the winning duo last week at the Dow championship with her partner. It's not even a full flagstick from the edge. Yamashita with a T at 13. We were talking about her before the round started. Angela, you say that from the T to the green she is through and through a solid player. She's so accurate, but then when she gets to the green, she wanted the best putters in the world, much less the LPGA tour. She ranked second on our tour and strokes gained and putting. I think she's going to hang around today because she's going to have to make some longer pots and then you hit shots like that and. She's just having a day like we first went on tour body. Whoa, looking for number three. Yamashita as teeth Angela and a player put together a marvelous round of golf today. Miyu Yamashita. You gotta think the whole just looks. Just found another one. We're on course record watch now, I think. I mean, you've done this before. How do you not pinch yourself a little bit? How do you stay so focused? That's what they call being in the zone. You don't really realize it's happening. She stays at minus 13. Meanwhile, this one just continues to tear through this golf course on a set to win and it is a different animal. Yep, yeah, chasing this woman right here. Yamashita 14. I gotta watch out for that water up the left. We've seen it come into play year in year out here. Anything negative today? Yeah, she's I mean she's only 4 foot 11 Kelly. She's very petite, does not hit the ball particularly far, but she really plays to her strength. She's just going to try and chase something down there. Put something in position, getting it to trundle out of that rough. Be up close to the front of the green and and let her short game do the rest of the work. It's it's really interesting to watch her play because she's very meticulous, doesn't make a lot of mistakes. And just exit 14. We've got loading a bit of trouble on 13. Yamashita trying to get up and down to get it to 18 under. Make sure land this all the way towards the top of that slope. Not a bad miss there. Could have taken a bad kick off that drain cap, but pretty good result for Yamashita taking a look at this silky smooth golf swing that is currently leading at the Meijer. Yamashita just barely went over the edge of this 14th green. The par five and has this for birdie. And that was a chance to kind of make a statement and pull ahead by a couple of shots with woad and trouble. So she's now through two of these three par fives on the back 9 and woad still has a couple ahead of her. What? To Yamashita. On the T at 15. Another part 3. Kelly, like you mentioned that whole location. It's only six on but truly online. You only have about three paces there. What a shot. I'm taking a look at Yamashita's position by round as she's pulling a Scotty Scheffler right now. Like at the US Open, I believe he was somewhere around T49. 24 year old mute Yamashita of Japan number eight in the World Golf rankings. She is one shot ahead of number seven in those rankings. That is Lottie Woad. It has this for birdie at 15. And how about these shots that she has hit into these par threes today? Talked about difficult, especially this whole location is no fear. I mean, we talk about her driving accuracy. We talk about her putting, but she is putting on a show today with her irons and her approach play and. Oh Morgan, we were both rooting for that. Well, that's a rare miss by her on the putting surface today, and she will have. A lot to deal with coming back. Yeah, and that was her. First three on a par three today. Birdied all the other four par threes at nearly another two. Yeah, that's why I said we were both rooting for it. I don't know if I've ever seen somebody birdie all the par threes when there are five of them out here. Only been a couple of Eagles on that whole today and they both come out of that group. Wow, I just I'm just kind of shocked. Well, you'd have to imagine she would possibly come back down to Earth. A little bit, I think she's the incredible tear that she has been on, but you don't want that at this time in the round. Well, I think she got super aggressive with that first putt because she's thinking I'm about to make a birdie on a hold that I'm, you know, you're not thinking you're going to make birdie and just hammered that putt. And it's downhill and then coming back just. Would have seen that three putt. And here at the 16th Morgan, you know a few moments ago it looked like it might be washed by two or three shots. And now it's a tie for the lead with Woad with that incredible par save. On here, you come into the second hardest hole in the course, but we talk about kind of the drama on this back nine me. You not able to convert the birdie on 14 bogey at 15 and completely different story right now, right? Another chance for a birdie to the delight of the crowd surrounding this 18th hole and they get what they want. Anna Wilson. Lovely follow up to her victory with Gina Kim last week at the Dow Championship Lane. That's really the goal. Second shot for Yamashita at 16. Great look from this perspective as to what these players are facing with that elevated green location only four paces on. Today it's really hard to get it close to that. What 17 under and leads by one? Meanwhile, you musta. You saw how fast this was for Jenny and shot going all the way back towards the whole. Aggressive again with that one Angela like she was on the previous hold downhill and look at that just keeps going. When you're such a good putt on board. Now you musta one off the pace in this to stay at 16 under. After the three putt on 15, just to stay in it. Yamashita trying to chase her down once again. Five off the pace at 16 under. This whole has played the hardest every single day except the third round, and today it's back. It's the hardest hole on the golf course. Is team from what was probably 100 feet? I have no idea was such a long putt. Of course she Yamashita at 17. Right at this whole location. Tucked back left. I was really good. No point in changing the game plan now. The third of the three par fives on this back nine. This is Rio Takeda to 11 under par. She hits the ball pretty far, likes to feast on par fives when she can. So that well done by Takeda. Solid week of golf, but right now the spotlight is on the 22 year old Englishwoman Lottie Road. So give us something to look forward to as they come down the stretch here. Yamashita at 17 to try to tie the lead once again with Lottie Road. It's really hard to get that front. The 17th now par putt Angela for Yamashita. That was where she really put the exclamation point down. She knows she has a par five ahead of her, which is even more to look forward to. Yamashita 224 from the whole. Trying to sling it in towards that left hole location to get as much out of it as she could. Not a bad leave. She could make what she did earlier at the 15th able to get up and down. We'll see if she can do that again. Yamashita at the 18th. If this goes in, we have a new leader. She's looking to chip this in right here. Really straightforward. Kelly choking all the way up on this club. Pretty good for Morgan, yeah, 17 under. You have to wonder if it's going to be enough. Well, we do have Lottie Woad. She won't know that Lottie's making a mistake behind her with that double crossing. Likes of which include Nelly Korda and Gino Titicoune, number one and two players in the world. Yamashita for Birdie at 18, so she seals that she's at 17 under, but the way Lottie Woad is playing right now, it doesn't seem to be enough. You have to imagine she was an amazing golf shot. You agree we're looking at possibly a generational talent here. Morgan, I mean, look at just signing autographs and waiting for the outcome here. Not be too disruptive to what's happening with Lottie Woad here trying to win this tournament. Here's your mashta Angela. Just waiting it out. I'm sure you've been in that position a few times in the probably feels longer. Nothing tentative there though. Mosh to just trying to stay loose. Maybe a little just. Oh my goodness, wow, we've seen some crazy things happen on this 18th hole. We've seen some short, very short, missed putts for wins in the past, and maybe a mashta is shocked. Stay focally frustrated, but she needs to stop thinking about it immediately and refocus to head back to the 18th tee. I mean, this is a player who's been second in the field in putting all week. Absolute ice in her veins and I cannot believe she just three putted that. Began today, five shot play it. Until we have a winner. So Angela, you know, talk about the mindsets of these two players now based on recent events. Well, as Morgan said, Lottie's gotta put that behind her. Like hey, I got another shot too. I didn't play that whole the way I know I can play it. If anything, I think that's what Lottie's thinking right now. Is it? Hey, I'm not going to do that again. Well, this just isn't anyone she's in a playoff with. Both women are seeking their third career LPGA Tour victories and Mio Yamashita won the AIG Women's Open in Wales. She won the Maybach Championship in Malaysia last year. Both women have collected multiple wins in a very short stretch, dating back to August of last year. For Yamashita here, what's being said there, but he's walking them through the situation and telling them who will be first to play that looks like in their second years on tour. From that respect, but you of course, as you mentioned, having all that success in Japan, so knows how to win, knows how to get the job done. Karen, what's the energy like out there? Well, I think everybody's everybody's excited so from a from a crowd standpoint because they get to see some more golf and as I was walking down everybody wanted to know what the what the plan was if they were going to play this whole thing go up before I said no, everybody's just playing 18. And and I think me you is just happy she's having this opportunity and lots of needs to figure that out as well as you guys were saying. Me you incredibly steady off the tee. Doesn't normally make many mistakes. This one's going on a bit of a draw, though it might not hold the fairway. Clubbing back and finding the rough so not getting the release going to have quite a ways in and we mentioned she's not the longest. Lottie also clubbing back here. I believe Karen, yes. Leaves actually got quite a good line. Bulls going to be a little bit above her feet. 228 different 237 to the whole. Should be able to chase this one off. I'll be in a buffer. Feet will help her shape it. Now you can see up the left side here. And this is her three wood. Sounded a bit heavy. She can. She sure did. I mean, she's definitely within range to hold something out from there. From Japan and Lottie Woad, 22 years old from England. Lottie Road tried to become a multiple winner for the country of England. Karen on the LPGA Tour for the first time since you. In 2004, sure that's not on her mind right now. Maybe it's on yours, but congrats on that honor and we'll see if she can do it right now. You must is ready to go and your master's got a little work cut out for her. Got lots of sort of fairway to go through before she hits the green. She can play this a couple of ways. Pitch into the upslope short and let it hop on or try and land this on the green with some spin. But either way it's going to require quite a deft touch. Great classy play there. You could tell by her practice swings she was trying to take something a little bit higher and chip. It's going to break to the left when it hits the green. It's one of those ones that you would think you could actually give this one a go and make, but you don't want it running too far past. On that left to right, but just tentative not the pace. This is the chance for Yamashita to do it again. What do I mean by again? Well, she came from eight strokes back. She was tied for 11th entering the final round of the Maybach championship. Maybank championship last November. Chuck 65 bogey three to defeat Hannah Green and H and Choi on the first playoff hole in that tournament. Today she began her campaign five off the pace and put up a very similar number. One better, in fact 64. Now this. For another win. Ashta it's complete. What a thrill for her with a final round. 64 picking up win number three on the LPGA Tour last year's Rookie of the Year. Shocking break here today. Still up a spot in the race to the CME Globe and still rising in her star power the day belongs to the 24 year old. From Japan, what a talent for him. Comfort behind victory played exceptional golf today and finished it off with a birdie on the first playoff hole. While we have a moment, Karen Stubbles is with the winner. Thank you so much. What a tremendous performance today. You have five shots back. At what point did you believe you could win today? So we hold up the dominoes. Get all my don't knock it. I'm going to make you know and I'm going to stick with it. Don't want to need talk. No, so I don't like it on this kid. Oh my God. It'll cause you. I think it's going to show. Don't look at the sea. Did she want to take it on? Don't think that day. It had a little like a score gap with the top, but this week I had a really good feeling so I'm really happy to win. Well, congratulations champion this week. Well played, thank you so much. Yes, it was presentation of CBS sports in association with the LPGA.