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Fukushima survives playoff to win Salonpas Cup

TOKYO —

Overnight leader Akiko Fukushima hung tough in a playoff Sunday to win the World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup, edging South Korea’s Shin Ji Yai on the fifth extra hole.

Fukushima survived the playoff by holing delicate par-saving putts before clinching her first Japan LPGA major title in 11 years in an anticlimactic fashion on the decisive hole, where she three-putted while Shin missed her third putt for bogey.

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