Miyu Yamashita won the CPKC Women’s Open in dominant fashion. To put into perspective how commanding the victory was, she tied an impressive LPGA record in the process.
The 25-year-old Japanese star tied the lowest gross score of all-time on tour with a four-day total of 23-under 257. She shot a final round four-under 66—the highest score she shot all week—at Royal Mayfair in Edmonton, Canada to win in wire-to-wire fashion. Yuri Yoshida of Japan finished second, nine shots back.
Yamashita tied Sei Young Kim at 257, which she shot at the 2018 Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic in similar fashion to also win by nine shots.
Yamashita started the final round with a six-shot lead and never let anyone get close. She has continued to impress in closing out victories, whether it’s winning from ahead, in this case, or in playoffs (she’s won in this fashion twice) or coming from behind.
Yamashita is the fastest Japanese player to earn four wins, and she did it in 42 starts. She’s so versatile that even at her young age, she’s already won in four countries. She got her first win at the AIG Women’s British Open last year, then won the Maybank Championship in Malaysia and the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan (in a playoff over Lottie Woad) earlier this year. Now she’s won in Canada.
Yamashita opened the tournament strong and never let off the gas, shooting 62-64-65-66. She is part of a very talented young Japanese corps on tour now, and she holds the highest world ranking of the group at No. 7. There are five Japanese players ranked in the top 25 in the world. Yamashita starred on the Japan LPGA, where she won 13 times before joining the LPGA last year. Her winning ways didn’t stop there. She was the 2025 rookie of the year on the LPGA.
Even though she had a commanding presence and a gargantuan lead on Sunday, she still had butterflies.
“I was nervous,” Yamashita said in English in her post-round interview with Golf Channel. “I trusted my game and my shot and my swing.”
Even though she had an interpreter with her, she answered in English. That was surely more nerve-racking than any shot on Sunday, because she seemed to have all the answers. A trip home might be responsible.
She had just taken a two-week break and went to visit her family in Japan. She worked with her dad/coach and fine-tuned her game, and she was right back on the 18th green with a champagne celebration.
“I’ve got really good feelings right now, so I want to keep the good rhythm,” Yamashita said after her first round. She kept the good vibes going all weekend and looks to keep it going next week as well in the FM Championship in Boston.
She won $412,500 and has $5.9 million in career earnings.
Yamashita’s consistency is evident as she has eight top-10 finishes. She’s won twice and has joined multiple winners in World No. 1 Nelly Korda, World No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul, Haeran Ryu, Hyo Joo Kim and Hannah Green.
The most impressive thing about Yamashita is that she doesn’t have nearly the length off the tee as some of her counterparts, and yet, it doesn’t matter. She’s 142nd on tour in driving distance for an average of 250.82 yards. By comparison, Spain’s Julia Lopez Romero is first at 288.2 yards.
What sums Yamashita up just fine is that she has one of the best short games in the world. She’s No. 1 on tour in scrambling and ninth in putting at 29.12 average per round.
After the round, she reiterated, as she often has, that her focus is not in hitting it far but keeping it in the fairway. She needed a seven-foot putt for birdie on the final hole to tie Sei Young Kim for the scoring record.
Naturally, she made it.
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