Yamashita first to retain the Maybank Championship

Miyu Yamashita became the first player to win the Maybank Championship twice, closing with a 68 at Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club on Sunday to finish on −22, two shots ahead of Yan Liu. The tournament was first played in 2023; Céline Boutier and Ruoning Yin won the first two editions, and Yamashita took the 2025 title in a three-way play-off.

This time she needed no extra holes. Yamashita had led since the second round and started Sunday on 198, two ahead of Liu and Pauline Roussin-Bouchard. Liu, who shot 63 on Saturday, birdied the 2nd and, after Yamashita’s birdie at the 3rd, drew level with an eagle from about three metres at the par-5 4th, Herald Business reported. Yamashita went back in front with a birdie at the 5th, birdied the 8th, dropped her only shot of the day at the 9th and birdied the par-3 11th. Liu bogeyed the 14th.

At the par-5 18th Liu’s eagle putt from about six metres, which would have drawn her level, finished short and she made birdie. Yamashita then holed an uphill putt of about three metres for a birdie of her own.

The win is worth $450,000 from a $3 million purse. It is Yamashita’s third LPGA Tour title of the season, after a play-off win at the Meijer LPGA Classic in June and a nine-shot win at the CPKC Women’s Open in August. She has five in all, including the 2025 AIG Women’s Open.

Marisa Tojai, a 17-year-old amateur from Thailand, shot 67 to share third with Roussin-Bouchard on −19. At the 16th, a 332-yard par 4 and the LPGA’s designated risk-reward hole, she found water and made double bogey. Robyn Choi was fifth on −17, and Achiraya Sriwong’s 65 was the best final round among the top ten.

Final leaderboard

Pos	Player	Rounds	Total	To par
1	Miyu Yamashita	65-66-67-68	266	−22
2	Yan Liu	69-68-63-68	268	−20
T3	Marisa Tojai (a)	72-65-65-67	269	−19
T3	Pauline Roussin-Bouchard	64-69-67-69	269	−19
5	Robyn Choi	67-69-66-69	271	−17
6	Achiraya Sriwong	68-72-67-65	272	−16
7	A Lim Kim	70-64-71-68	273	−15
8	Weiwei Zhang	71-71-65-67	274	−14
T9	Esther Henseleit	70-71-67-67	275	−13
T9	Aki Iwai	68-71-69-67	275	−13
T9	Nataliya Guseva	68-69-71-67	275	−13
T9	Céline Boutier	69-69-69-68	275	−13
T9	Karis Davidson	70-67-70-68	275	−13
T9	Hye-Jin Choi	67-70-70-68	275	−13
T9	Charley Hull	66-69-72-68	275	−13

Par 72. The LPGA’s run of Asian events ends next week at the Toto Japan Classic in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Sources

• LPGA: Maybank Championship 2026 leaderboard
• LPGA: Maybank Championship overview
• ESPN: LPGA leaderboard, Maybank Championship
• Associated Press via WRAL: Miyu Yamashita holds off Yan Liu to defend her LPGA Maybank Championship title
• Herald Business: Japan’s Yamashita wins back-to-back Maybank Championship
• Free Malaysia Today: Yamashita keeps her cool to retain Maybank Championships title
• The Star: History beckons for Miyu Yamashita
• Wikipedia: Maybank Championship (LPGA)
• Wikipedia: Miyū Yamashita