Saso opts for Japan citizenship

Yuka Saso has chosen to remain a Japan national. – AP

US Women’s Open champion Yuka Saso has chosen Japanese citizenship despite representing the Philippines at the Olympic Games this year and in past events, she said this week.

The 20-year-old golfer, who won the US Women’s Open in San Francisco in June as a teenager, currently has dual citizenship as her father is from Japan and her mother is a Filipino.