Yuka Saso celebrates with the Harton S. Semple trophy after winning the 76th US Women’s Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco last year
HONG KONG: When a little-known teenager from the Philippines burst into the global golf spotlight by winning last year’s US Women’s Open it changed her life — but left tricky decisions ahead.
Yuka Saso will next week enjoy the new experience of defending a major. But at Pine Needles she will play under a different flag, the crimson red circle of Japan.
Saso, who was born in the Philippines and has a Filipino mother and Japanese father, agonised over the “very difficult” decision to switch allegiance to the land of her father.
Japan does not allow adults to hold dual nationality, leaving Saso…
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