Yuka Saso. (Photo from PGA of America) By REY C. LACHICA She’s just a rookie in the Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association (JLPGA) but Fil-Japanese Yuka Saso is already a multi-millionaire. The country’s lone double-gold winner in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia breached the P30-million...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso. (File Photo) Asian Games gold medalist Yuka Saso carded a final round two-under par 70 to finish tied for 14th in the Japan Women’s Open Sunday in Miyakawa City in Fukuoka prefecture. The Filipino-Japanese golfer, a rookie in the Japan Tour, mixed her round with...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso. (File Photo) Yuka Saso birdied her opening hole but it turned out to be just one of her few good shots in the third round Saturday as she scrambled for a 73 to bow out of the title race in the Japan Women’s Open. Her birdie on the opening par-5 No. 1 hole sparked hopes...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso. (File Photo) Yuka Saso turned in a respectable two-under 70 and advanced to the LPGA of Japan Tour’s second major championship in Miyakawa City in Fukuoka Prefecture on Friday. Though she’s still eight shots off new leader Japanese Sakura Koiwai, her explosive finish...
Bianca Pagdanganan of the Phillipines (Gregory Shamus / Getty Images / AFP) Rookie Bianca Pagdanganan and Dottie Ardina fired identical two-under 70 and trailed Aussie Hannah Green and American Cydney Clanton by four at the start of the Cambia Portland Classic of the LPGA Tour in Oregon Friday....
Yuka Saso (File Photo) Yuka Saso and Momoko Ueda try to engage each other in a virtual “match play” when they see action in the Descente Ladies Tokai Classic beginning Friday at the Shinminami Aichi Country Club’s Mihama course in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Yuka Yasuda was actually the one...
Yuka Saso (File Photo) Filipino-Japanese Yuka Saso failed on her ‘comeback’ bid as she carded a four-over par 76 to finish tied for 13th in the JLPGA Championship Konica Minolta Cup Sunday in Okayama, Japan. Saso, who was in joint fourth place to start the final round, managed a...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso birdied the final hole to stay two shots behind going into the final round of the Japan LPGA Championship. (File Photo) Yuka Saso finally birdied the par-5 18th hole on Saturday and produced a 69 to stay on track for a first major triumph in the rich Japan LPGA...
Yuka Saso (File Photo) Rookie Yuka Saso turned in a two-under 70 despite a final-hole mishap to stay two shots off new leader halfway through the Japan LPGA Championship at the JFE Setonaikai Golf Club in Okayama on Friday. Korean Hee Kyung Bae grabbed the lead after firing a 67, her 136 total...
From left, Olympic-bound athletes boxer Eumir Felix Marcial, pole vaulter EJ Obiena, gymnast Carlos Yulo, boxer Irish Magno (Handout Photos) Philippines’ chief of mission to the Tokyo Games Nonong Araneta believes the present batch of Olympic qualifiers and hopefuls have the strongest chance of...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso bags her first win in the JLPGA tournament. (File Photo) If it were basketball, Filipino-Japanese Yuka Saso would have surely taken the last shot, or delivered during penalty situation in football, or scored a home run with two strikes on her in the ninth inning of a tied...
Saso takes 2nd win in JLPGA Tour, gets P16.5M cash reward Yuka Saso bags the Japan LPGA Nitori Ladies title, her second win in the JLPGA Tour. Filipino-Japanese Yuka Saso won by two strokes with a one-under par 71 which gave her the Japan LPGA Nitori Ladies golf tournament title Sunday at the Otaru...
