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CaddyBytes 🏆 2025 AIG Women's Open Final Round Highlights: As the 2026 AIG Women's Open builds toward Royal Lytham & St Annes, this featured recap looks back at Miyu Yamashita’s breakthrough major victory at Royal Porthcawl. The 2025 championship had a true links feel, with patient scoring, weather control, and final-round nerve deciding who could finish the last women’s major of the season. Yamashita entered Sunday with the lead and protected it with composed ball-striking and steady putting. Charley Hull made a hard charge in front of the home-country galleries, while Minami Katsu also stayed in the chase, but Yamashita kept the tournament from getting away from her even as the pressure tightened down the stretch. The closing holes created the real championship test. Yamashita had to manage the lead, avoid the big miss, and keep making the disciplined decisions that had carried her through the week. Hull’s challenge made the final round feel alive, but Yamashita’s calm finish delivered her first major championship and gave the AIG Women’s Open another international champion. That 2025 result sets up the 2026 championship at Royal Lytham, where links golf should again reward players who can flight the ball, control spin, handle bunkers, and stay patient when the wind turns small mistakes into major-championship trouble.

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