{"id":6440,"date":"2024-11-04T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rio-takeda-wins-lpga-japan-classic-after-six-hole-play-off\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T03:21:06","slug":"rio-takeda-wins-lpga-japan-classic-after-six-hole-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rio-takeda-wins-lpga-japan-classic-after-six-hole-play-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Takeda wins LPGA Japan classic after six-hole play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rio Takeda won her first LPGA tour title by beating American Marina Alex in a six-hole sudden-death play-off at the Japan Classic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old forced a play-off when she birdied the 18th, leaving both players on 15 under after the tournament was reduced to 54 regulation holes following Saturday&#8217;s bad weather. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair both birdied the first play-off hole and found par during the next four holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Japan&#8217;s Takeda made a birdie on the par-five 18th to see off Alex, who could only find par. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The play-off victory, one of the longest in LPGA history, means Takeda has earned a tour card. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was planning to take Q School in December and now I can skip that and go and play next year on the LPGA tour, which is exciting for me now,&#8221; said the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/czxv13r30kyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Takeda won her first LPGA tour title by beating American Marina Alex in a six-hole sudden-death play-off at the Japan Classic. The 21-year-old forced a play-off when she birdied the 18th, leaving both players on 15 under after the tournament was reduced to 54 regulation holes following Saturday&#8217;s bad weather. The pair both birdied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}