Goyang, South Korea — Australia defeated Staff USA to win the LPGA Worldwide Crown Match on Sunday, with Minjee Lee and Hannah Inexperienced successful each singles matches and taking the title with 2-1 wins over Angel Yin and Yearimi Noh, respectively.
The four-way match between Australians Stephanie Kyriacou and Grace Kim and People Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin led to a draw, nevertheless it did not matter when Inexperienced sealed the victory on the seventeenth gap of the second singles match at New Korea Nation Membership.
It was Australia’s first win in a match play event, however they missed out on that in 2023 when present No. 1 Gino Titikul and a tie defeated Australia within the last at San Francisco’s TPC Harding Park.
Charlie Hull and Lydia Ko received a surprising singles match in opposition to Japan, giving the world group a strong lead with three attracts, and the world group completed in third place.
Haru earned a spot on the world group with a 4-3 win over Ayaka Furue, whereas Ko secured a third-place end with a 3-2 win over Rio Takeda.
Mao Saigo and Miyu Yamashita narrowed the hole on the Japanese group by defeating Brooke Henderson and Weilin Su 4-3 within the four-a-side match.
A heartbreaking semi-final for the World Staff Early Sunday morning, Kiriakou and Kim defeated World Staff members Weylin and Ko on the twentieth gap, clinching the Australians’ place within the singles last with one win every.
Hull defeated Hannah Inexperienced 2-1 within the first singles match to place the world group forward, earlier than Minjee Lee fought again with a tie in opposition to Canada’s Henderson, successful by one level and tying the match.
The highest-seeded U.S. group had a better path to the finals as Yin defeated Japan’s Takeda 2-1, then No received the thirteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth holes to defeat Yamashita 4-2, sealing America’s spot.
Furue and Saigo handed Japan a disappointing victory, and Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin received 1-up on this week’s foursome match, ending the U.S.’s excellent document.
The event format sees seven international locations and “remainder of the world” groups competing in two swimming pools. The groups and their gamers had been decided by the ladies’s world rankings.
The highest two international locations from every pool superior to Sunday’s semi-finals and last, which consisted of 1 foursomes match (alternating photographs) and two singles matches.
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.
