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Asian Games: Meet PH golf's golden trio

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/tvpatrol/08/22/20180826-yuka.jpg"/><figcaption>Bianca Pagdanganan (from left), Yuka Saso and Lois Kaye Go and delivered big time for the Philippines in the Asian Games on Sunday. <em>PSC media pool</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Three Pinay golfers brought a pleasant surprise for Philippine sports when they pulled off a impressive performance, giving the country two gold medals in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on Sunday.</p><p>Yuka Saso, Bianca Pagdanganan and Lois Kaye Go clinched the team title, Saso snared the individual championship, and Pagdanganan claimed a bronze in the most productive single-day outing for the Filipinos in the quadrennial event.</p><p>Now basketball-crazy Filipino sports fans might view the trio as a product of overnight success. </p><p>But Saso, Pagdanganan and Go have been busy perfecting their golf skills for years. Their Asian Games victory was a culmination of all their efforts.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/08/26/18/asian-games-pinay-golfer-yuka-saso-wins-gold-in-dramatic-finish">Asian Games: Yuka Saso, Philippines women’s golf team bag 2 gold medals</a></li></ul><div><strong>Yuka Saso</strong></div><p>The 17-year-old Filipino-Japanese hails from San Ildefonso, Bulacan. </p><p>When she was 15, Saso led the Philippines to the World Junior Girls team title and also topped the individual standings at Mississaugua Golf and Country Club in Ontario. </p><p>Saso crowned herself as the 2018 Philippine Ladies Open champion last January. In the same month, she also claimed the 2018 Victorian Junior Masters in Australia.</p><p>Before plunging into Asian Games action, she earned her first American Junior Golf Association invitational victory at Thunderbird International Junior in the United States last June.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/tvpatrol/08/22/20180826-yuka2.jpg"/><figcaption>Bianca Pagdanganan (from left), Yuka Saso and Lois Kaye Go and delivered big time for the Philippines in the Asian Games on Sunday. <em>PSC media pool</em></figcaption></figure></div><div><strong>Bianca Pagdanganan </strong></div><p>The 20-year-old Pagdanganan is based in Tucson, Arizona and has been active in the US circuit for years.</p><p>She competed in the Colonel Wollenberg&#x27;s Ram Classic in 2016, the NCAA Albuquerque Regional in 2017, and the U.S. Women&#x27;s Amateur Championship in 2018.</p><p>Pagdanganan powered University of Arizona to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women’s championship that earned her an LPGA exemption at the Marathon Classic played last month in Ohio</p><p>Some of her biggest wins include a couple of holes-in-one at the 2017 Lady Thunderbird Invitational and the NCAA Women’s Championship last May.</p><p>The Gonzaga University golfer also claimed the championship in the 55th Philippine Ladies Open in 2017.</p><div><strong>Lois Kaye Go</strong></div><p>The 19-year-old Boston College junior is a native of Cebu.</p><p>In 2017, she fired a final round 65 and claimed the Women’s Porter Cup in the US. She went on to win a bronze medal in the 2017 Southeast Asian Games a few months later.</p><p>A few days before the Asian Games, Go captured the women’s title in the 13th Kuala Lumpur Amateur Open in the Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam (KGPA) in Malaysia.</p><div><strong>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</strong></div>

<p>Three Pinay golfers brought a pleasant surprise for Philippine sports when they pulled off a impressive performance, one that gave the country two gold medals in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on Sunday.</p>

Three Pinay golfers brought a pleasant surprise for Philippine sports when they pulled off a impressive performance, one that gave the country two gold medals in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on Sunday.