Yuna Nishimura Wins First LPGA Title With Dominant Wire-to-Wire Victory in Arkansas

Yuna Nishimura received her first LPGA Tour title Sunday, claiming the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Arkansas with a wire-to-wire efficiency and incomes $450,000 from the event’s $3 million purse.

The 26-year-old from Osaka, Japan, posted rounds of 63-63-66 for a 54-hole whole of 21-under-par 192, ending 5 pictures away from a three-way tie for second. Aki Iwai shot the day’s low spherical with a bogey-free 62; Chanettee Wannasaen carded a 65 and In Gee Chun a 67 — all three ending at 16-under.

She entered Sunday main by 5 and closed out the title with a 5-under 30 on the again 9, together with an eagle on the par-5 14th, in accordance with Yahoo Sports.

“I told myself to go aggressive until the very end and I went for it,” Nishimura mentioned, per Golf Channel. “I still can’t believe it. I still shake my hand. But, yeah, I’m proud of myself and super happy.”

The win got here at a well-known venue for Nishimura, who completed tied for third on the similar occasion throughout her 2023 LPGA Tour rookie season. She had received six instances on the Japan LPGA Tour earlier than Sunday’s breakthrough on the worldwide stage.

Elsewhere within the discipline, Lauren Coughlin set an LPGA Tour file Saturday with 9 consecutive opening birdies in a spherical of 61, Golf Channel reported, earlier than ending tied for twelfth with a closing 66. Yealimi Noh and Mao Saigo every made their first profession holes-in-one on Sunday, per Golf Channel. World No. 7 Lottie Woad withdrew from the event as a consequence of sickness.

The event, in its twentieth 12 months, ran September 25–27 at Pinnacle Country Club.