{"id":27418,"date":"2025-08-23T05:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/iwai-dominates-cpkc-womens-open-leads-by-3-strokes-in-pursuit-of-double\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:11:32","slug":"iwai-dominates-cpkc-womens-open-leads-by-3-strokes-in-pursuit-of-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/iwai-dominates-cpkc-womens-open-leads-by-3-strokes-in-pursuit-of-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwai Dominates CPKC Women&#8217;s Open: Leads by 3 Strokes in Pursuit of Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Akie Iwai leads the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open<\/h2>\n\nMISSISSAUGA, Ontario \u2013 Akie Iwai is positioned as the leader heading into the weekend at the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open, seeking her second consecutive victory.\n\nAfter an opening round of 64 strokes (7 under par), Iwai carded a 69 on Friday, reaching a total of 133 strokes (9 under par) at the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club.\n\nThe 23-year-old Japanese golfer, who won the Portland Classic last Sunday, joins her twin sister Chisato as a rookie champion of the LPGA Tour. Iwai maintains a simple game strategy, avoiding anticipating results.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t change my mind. I don&#8217;t change my swing. I just focus on my game,&#8221; he affirmed.<\/p><cite>Akie Iwai<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nJeeno Thitikul, the Thai star who debuts after snatching the world number 1 spot from Nelly Korda, achieved a 70, sharing second place with Minjee Lee (67) and Leona Maguire (70).\n\nCanadian golfer Brooke Henderson, after starting with 71 strokes, recovered with a 66, placing herself at 5 under par. The 2018 champion obtained her last LPGA Tour title in January 2023.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m close,&#8221; Henderson said. &#8220;I just have to keep going and complete two more solid rounds.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Brooke Henderson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHenderson played alongside Thitikul and Lottie Woad, winner of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Open, who with rounds of 75-69 failed to make the cut by one stroke. Defending champion Lauren Coughlin also missed the cut after registering 74-70. Coughlin won last year in Calgary.\n\nAkie Iwai, with six victories on the JLPGA Tour, is participating in Canada for the first time. On Friday, on the tree-lined course, she played the first nine holes in par, with two birdies and two bogeys. In the second half, she achieved birdies on the 13th hole (par-5) and the 17th (par-4).\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Today I also had many birdie opportunities, but I couldn&#8217;t convert them. I left short putts,&#8221; he commented.<\/p><cite>Akie Iwai<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nChisato Iwai, winner in Mayakoba in May in Mexico, also missed the cut by one stroke, with rounds of 75 and 69.\n\nKorda was at 4 under par after his second round of 69. He had a double bogey on the 3rd hole (par-3).\n\nAphrodite Deng, the 15-year-old Canadian amateur, who tied for second place after a first round of 66, shot a 73, falling to 15th place at 3 under par.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akie Iwai leads the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open MISSISSAUGA, Ontario \u2013 Akie Iwai is positioned as the leader heading into the weekend at the CPKC Women&#8217;s Open, seeking her second consecutive victory. After an opening round of 64 strokes (7 under par), Iwai carded a 69 on Friday, reaching a total of 133 strokes (9 under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7392,7657,163,1515],"class_list":{"0":"post-27418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-akie-iwai","9":"tag-cpkc-womens-open","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-lpga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}