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Japanese golfers have had an impressive showing in 2025 on the LPGA Tour—winning six of 29 tournaments entering this week’s Toto Japan Classic—and that continued as the tour visited Seta Golf Course in Shigo, Japan. Nasa Hataoka pulled out her seventh career LPGA win by defeating countrywoman Yuna Araki in a playoff to win the rain-shortened event. The two were tied after 54 holes when heavy rains washed out the final round on Sunday. There was a brief window to hold the playoff, however, with the pair playing the 18th hole, ordinarily a par 5, as if it was a par 3. Hataoka made a par to grab the win.
The 78-player field in the no-cut, 72-hole event featured several of the LPGA’s top Japanese players including Miyu Yamashita, one of just two players to win multiple LPGA titles in 2025; defending champion Rio Takeda; past major winner Ayaka Furue; and twin sisters and rookies Akie and Chisato Iwai. In addition, 35 JLPGA members are competing in the event which has been an official LPGA tournament since 1975.
In the end, 14 of the top 20 finishes were from Japan.
The overall prize money payout for the event was $2.1 million with Hataoka earning $315,000. Ironically, Takeda claimed the title a year ago also in a rain-shortened 54 holes by defeating Marina Alex on the sixth hole of a sudden-death playoff.
This week’s event concluded the LPGA’s month-long fall Asian swing, with the tour playing one more tournament in the U.S. (next week’s Annika at Pelican) before ending the season in Naples, Fla., with the CME Group Tour Championship. The top 60 players on the LPGA’s Race to the CME points standings will get to compete in the final tournament with a purse of $11 million and a $4 million to the winner.
Below is the prize money payout for each golfer at the Toto Japan Classic.
Win: $315,000
2: $192,550
3: $139,681
4: $108,055
5: $86,972
6: $71,159
7: $59,562
8: $52,184
9: $46,912
10: $42,695
11: $39,532
12: $36,896
13: $34,577
14: $32,469
15: $30,571
16: $28,885
17: $27,410
18: $26,144
19: $25,090
20: $24,246
21: $23,404
22: $22,560
23: $21,717
24: $20,873
25: $20,136
26: $19,398
27: $18,659
28: $17,921
29: $17,184
30: $16,551
31: $15,918
32: $15,286
33: $14,653
34: $14,020
35: $13,494
36: $12,966
37: $12,440
38: $11,912
39: $11,385
40: $10,963
41: $10,542
42: $10,121
43: $9,698
44: $9,277
45: $8,961
46: $8,644
47: $8,328
48: $8,011
49: $7,695
50: $7,379
51: $7,169
52: $6,958
53: $6,746
54: $6,537
55: $6,325
56: $6,113
57: $5,904
58: $5,692
59: $5,483
60: $5,271
61: $5,166
62: $5,060
63: $4,955
64: $4,850
65: $4,743
66: $4,638
67: $4,534
68: $4,427
69: $4,322
70: $4,217
71: $4,165
72: $4,110
73: $4,058
74: $4,006
75: $3,958
76: $3,907
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