The ninth edition of the Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) championship will be held at the Taiheiyo Club Minori Course in Japan from 22-25 April 2027.

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 ...

PORTHCAWL, Wales — Miyu Yamashita of Japan captured her first major title Sunday when she withstood a charge by Charley Hull by not making a bogey until the outcome of the Women’s British Open was no ...

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The R&A and the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) have announced that the ninth edition of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (WAAP) championship will be held at the Taiheiyo Club Minori Course in ...

PORTHCAWL, Wales (AP) — Miyu Yamashita of Japan captured her first major title Sunday when she withstood a charge by Charley Hull by not making a bogey until the outcome of the Women's British Open ...