Goyang, South Korea — The USA defeated China twice within the four-ball sport on Thursday, the primary day of the LPGA Worldwide Crown Event, and world No. 1 Gino Titikul had an ideal efficiency within the staff occasion.
Titikul and her companion Pajari Anannarkhan (Thailand) defeated Hannah Inexperienced and Grace Kim (Australia) by one at New Korea Nation Membership. Titikul has received six consecutive video games in staff competitions.
The win got here after Australia’s Minjee Lee and Steph Kyriacou defeated Chanetee Wanasen and Jasmine Suvarnapura by two factors to share factors with Thailand on the opening day.
America’s Yearimi No and Angel Ying defeated China’s Liu Yan and Ying Ruoning 5 wins and 4 losses, whereas Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin defeated Zhang Weiwei and Liu Ruixin 1 up.
The USA was the one staff to win each opening video games.
Japan led the world staff from the beginning in each four-ball matches, however Charlie Hull and Lydia Ko birdied the ultimate gap to hitch Rio Takeda and Miyu Yamashita. Brooke Henderson and Su Weilin then received 2-1 over Ayaka Furue and Mao Saigo, incomes them 1.5 factors over their opponents.
Hull’s birdie on the twelfth gap introduced Hull and Ko again to 1 down, they usually stayed 1 down till the par-4 18th gap, when Ko lastly sank a 25-foot birdie putt to tie the match.
“The one strategy to prolong the match was for me to gap the putt on the seventeenth,” Ko stated. “At our size, birdie putts will not be assured in any respect, however I felt I should not let the staff down. Charlie held so many good birdie putts and saved us within the sport, and I simply got here in to trip the final two.”
The host staff received off to an excellent begin with South Korea’s Kim Hyo-joo and Choi Hye-jin defeating Sweden’s Maya Stark and Lynn Grant 3-2, whereas Ko Jin-young and Ryu Hye-ran completed tied with Ingrid Lindblad and Madelene Sagström.
The match format sees seven international locations and “remainder of the world” groups competing in two swimming pools. The USA, China, Australia, and Thailand will take part in Pool A, whereas South Korea, World Groups, Japan, and Sweden will take part in Pool B. The groups and their gamers have been decided by the ladies’s world rankings.
The addition of the world staff can even enable gamers corresponding to New Zealand’s Ko and Canada’s Henderson to take part within the match.
4-ball video games proceed Friday and Saturday. The highest two international locations from every pool advance to the semi-finals and ultimate on Sunday, consisting of 1 foursomes match (alternating photographs) and two singles matches.
Titikul was a member of the Thai staff that received the Worldwide Crown at San Francisco’s TPC Harding Park in 2023, and is the one participant to win the match. She has received six occasions on the LGPA Tour, together with wins this season on the Mizuho Americas Open and two weeks in the past in Shanghai.
Final week, Kim Sei-young received the BMW Women Championship, which was additionally held in South Korea. The LPGA Asia Swing continues subsequent week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and concludes in Shiga, Japan from November sixth to ninth.
