Miyu Yamashita Holds Off Charley Hull Challenge To Win 2025 AIG Women’s Open

WELCOME

Hello and welcome to Golf Monthly’s coverage of the AIG Women’s Open final round at Royal Porthcawl.

Japan’s Miyu Yamashita has extended her one-stroke lead to two since today’s action began and is currently on 10-under, with her closest challenger no longer playing partner, A Lim Kim but England’s Charley Hull on eight-under.

Away from the leaders, we’ve also had an ace from Mimi Rhodes and amateur star, Paula Martin Sampedro is making her presence known inside the top-10.

Thank you for joining me. I’ll bring you all of the key updates as they happen until a champion is crowned in blustery conditions later on today!

HULL TO WITHIN ONE

The gap from Hull to Yamashita is now just one stroke as the English chaser begins the ninth. Hull has just birdied the par-3 eighth – adding to a gain at the par-3 fifth – to make it three birdies in four holes.

BRILLIANT

Further down the par-5 ninth than Hull, Rio Takeda faces an awkward bunker shot into the wind. However, she produces a brilliant strike to fly it all the way and spin her ball back past the hole. That should be a comfortable birdie for the Japanese pro.

BAD TIME FOR A BOGEY

There does often seem to be one player in the final group or groups who suffers something of a disaster in the fourth round, and that appears as though it will be A Lim Kim. The Korean three putts the seventh to fall back to six-under – that’s four strokes off the leader, Yamashita.

ANOTHER HOLE CLOSER

Yamashita knocks her par putt in at the seventh to remain at 10-under as Rio Takeda misses her close birdie putt at the ninth. Given the wind out there today, the shorter putts are certainly not a given.

THROWING DARTS

Yamashita could be about to move two strokes clear as she fires an absolute dart just to the left of the hole at the par-3 eighth. A Lim Kim is also in tight, with the Korean in desperate need of a switch in momentum.

Not far ahead, Hull slings a hybrid around from right to left at the ninth and will have a 50-yard pitch shot for her third at the par-5 hole. A birdie might be required if Yamashita holes out, as she is expected to, in order to maintain that one-stroke gap.

BIG BIRDIE

A Lim Kim bounces back immediately with a tidy eight-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth. She is up to seven-under.

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