GUANGLAN, China — Canadian beginner Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont., completed runner-up in a playoff on the GolfJoy Girls’s Open on Saturday, narrowly lacking out on the title after a robust final-round efficiency.
Liu, 17, a member of Golf Canada’s Workforce Canada NextGen squad, carded a bogey-free, six-under 66 to climb right into a tie for the lead at 11-under-par 205 alongside China’s Ren Yijia on the CLPG Tour occasion held on the Olazabal Course at Mission Hills Golf Membership Dongguan.
Ren secured the victory on the primary playoff gap, changing a birdie from inside eight toes on the par-4 18th after Liu’s birdie try from roughly 20 toes slid previous.
Regardless of the playoff loss, Liu impressed in her CLPG Tour debut, staying in competition all through the week and posting one of many lowest rounds of the day on Saturday.
“General, I feel I performed fairly first rate this week,” stated Liu. “There have been some issues I might have performed higher and a few putts I in all probability might have made, however that’s simply golf.”
Liu surged into competition on the again 9, making 5 birdies over a seven-hole stretch beginning at No. 9. She briefly held the outright lead after a birdie on the par-5 fifteenth earlier than Ren matched her with a birdie of her personal. Each gamers closed regulation with three consecutive pars to power a playoff.
“On the playoff gap we each had fairly first rate birdie probabilities,” Liu stated. “I used to be just a little bit additional away and he or she made hers and I didn’t.”
The consequence continues a robust stretch for Liu, the reigning Canadian Junior Ladies champion, who is about to compete in subsequent month’s Chevron Championship — the primary main of the LPGA Tour season. She has additionally dedicated to play collegiate golf at UCLA.
Thailand’s Onkanok Soisuwan and China’s Sui Xiang completed tied for third at six-under, 5 photographs again.
The GolfJoy Girls’s Open marked the primary full-field occasion of the 2026 CLPG Tour season.
