Miyu Yamashita

Miyū Yamashita (山下 美夢有) is a Japanese professional golfer born on August 2, 2001, in Neyagawa, Osaka. She competes on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour, where she has accumulated 13 victories. Ranked inside the world's top ten on the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings, Yamashita is the 2025 AIG Women's Open champion and the 2025 LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

Yamashita turned professional and joined the JLPGA Tour in 2020, winning her first title at the 2021 KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies Open. Her 2022 season was a breakout: she recorded five wins, claimed the JLPGA Tour money title with earnings of over 235 million yen, and became the youngest player to win the Mercedes Ranking. She followed that with the Japan LPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup in 2022 and again in 2023. In December 2024 she secured her LPGA Tour card by winning the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, opening the door to competing at the highest level of the international game.

Her LPGA debut in 2025 was remarkable. She won the AIG Women's Open at Royal Porthcawl by two strokes over Charley Hull and Minami Katsu, her first major championship and first professional victory outside Japan. Later in the same season she won the Maybank Championship in Malaysia via a playoff, adding a second LPGA title in her debut year. Her game is built around pinpoint accuracy rather than power, a combination that lets her attack pins from the fairway with consistency few peers can match.

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