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Yuri Yoshida

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Yuri Yoshida
吉田 優利
Personal information
Born (2000-04-17) 17 April 2000 (age 24)
Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan
Height158 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
CollegeJapan Wellness Sports University
Turned professional2019
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 2024)
LPGA of Japan Tour (joined 2020)
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
LPGA of Japan Tour3
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenT51: 2024
Women's British OpenCUT: 2023
Evian ChampionshipDNP

Yuri Yoshida (吉田優利, Yoshida Yuri) (born 17 April 2000) is a Japanese professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. She won three times on the LPGA of Japan Tour 2021–2023.[1]

Early life and amateur career

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Yoshida had a successful amateur career and in 2018 she won both the Japan Junior Championship and the Japan Women's Amateur Championship.[2] In 2019, she was medalist at the Australian Women's Amateur.[3]

She represented Japan internationally, and led her team to a runner-up finish behind the United States at the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy in Ireland, where she finished third individually behind Cho Ayean and Jennifer Kupcho.[2]

Professional career

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Yoshida turned professional in late 2019 and joined the 2020 LPGA of Japan Tour. She won twice on the 2020–21 LPGA of Japan Tour season, and rose to a Women's World Golf Rankings of 77 by September 2021.[4] In 2023, she won the World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup, one of the four majors of the JLPGA.[5]

Yoshida earned her card for the 2024 LPGA Tour through qualifying school, where she tied for 7th.[6]

Amateur wins

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  • 2017 Kanto Amateur Championship, Aaron Baddeley International Junior Championship
  • 2018 Japan Women's Amateur Championship, Japan Junior Championship

Source:[2]

Professional wins (3)

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LPGA of Japan Tour wins (3)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 31 Jul 2021 Rakuten Super Ladies 65-67-66=198 −18 3 stroke Japan Mamiko Higa
2 5 Sep 2021 Golf5 Ladies 69-68-65=202 −14 Playoff Japan Eri Okayama
3 7 May 2023 World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup 71-69-76-73=289 +1 3 strokes South Korea Jiyai Shin

Tournaments in bold denotes major tournaments in LPGA of Japan Tour.

Results in LPGA majors

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Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Chevron Championship
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT T51
Women's PGA Championship
The Evian Championship NT
Women's British Open CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament

Team appearances

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Amateur

Source:[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Member Guide: Yuri Yoshida". LPGA of Japan. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Yuri Yoshida". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Three-way tie for medalist at Women's Australian Amateur". Amateur Golf. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Yuri Yoshida". Women's World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Yuri Yoshida wins first Japan women's major title". Japan Times. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  6. ^ "2023 LPGA Q-Series: Meet the Top 45 and Ties". LPGA. 7 December 2023.
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