World No. 5 Saso set for busy November

The Philippines’ Yuka Saso watches her drive from the tenth tee in spherical 3 of the ladies’s golf particular person stroke play in the course of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Kasumigaseki Nation Membership in Kawagoe on August 6, 2021. (Photograph by YOSHI IWAMOTO / AFP)

Yuka Saso is plunging right into a busy November, hoping to cap a sterling, solidly constant US Girls Skilled Golfers Affiliation (LPGA) season with a victory—or extra—in opposition to the world’s greatest feminine golfers.

The 20-year-old Filipino-Japanese, who has risen to No. 5 on the earth rankings, will play one event in Japan and two in the USA, the place she’s going to compete within the LPGA’s season-ending Tour Championship, in line with her administration group.

The LPGA rookie “will play the Toto Japan LPGA occasion … in addition to the Pelican LPGA occasion and CME LPGA occasion in Florida,” Sterling Sports activities Administration, which represents the reigning US Girls’s Open champion, advised the Inquirer by way of e-mail.

The Toto Japan Basic on the North course of Seta Golf Membership in Shiga tees off on Nov. 4. The Pelican Girls’s Championship, in the meantime, will get going at Pelican Golf Membership in Belleair, Florida, on Nov. 11. Saso has additionally earned sufficient factors to qualify for the LPGA Tour Championship, which begins Nov. 18 at Tiburón Golf Membership in Naples, Florida.

Saso’s US Open win helped increase her up the world rankings, however it was her constant play that pulled her as much as No. 5. The reigning Asian Video games champion and Tokyo Olympian has performed eight occasions within the US LPGA, the place she is a rookie, and has completed within the high 10 in 5 of these eight occasions.

She completed tied for fourth in her newest event, the Founders Cup.

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