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10/23 05:53 CDT Americans beat China twice. Thitikul stays perfect at LPGA's
International Crown team event
Americans beat China twice. Thitikul stays perfect at LPGA's International
Crown team event
GOYANG, South Korea (AP) --- The United States beat China twice in fourball
matches Thursday on the first day of the LPGA's International Crown tournament
while world No. 1-ranked Jeeno Thitikul remained perfect at the team event.
Thitikul and partner Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand beat Hannah Green and
Grace Kim of Australia 1-up at the New Korea Country Club. It was Thitikul's
sixth consecutive win at the team competition.
The win came after Australia's Minjee Lee and Steph Kyriacou beat Chanettee
Wannasaen and Jasmine Suwannapura 2-up to split the points with Thailand on the
opening day.
Americans Yealimi Noh and Angel Yin routed Liu Yan and Yin Ruoning of China 5
and 4 and later Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin beat Zhang Weiwei and Liu Ruixin
1-up.
The U.S. was the only team to have won both its opening matches.
Japan led the World team early in both fourball matches but Charley Hull and
Lydia Ko birdied the final hole for a tie with Rio Takeda and Miyu Yamashita.
Then Brooke Henderson and Wei-Ling Hsu rallied for a 2 and 1 win over Ayaka
Furue and Mao Saigo to pick up 1.5 points against their opponents.
Hull and Ko got back to 1 down when Hull won the 12th hole with a birdie, and
the pair remained 1 down until the par-4 18th hole, ultimately tying the match
when Ko buried a 25-foot birdie putt on the last.
"The only way I thought we were going to extend the match was for me to hole
the putt on 17," Ko said. "At both our lengths, it's not a guaranteed birdie
putt at all, but I felt like I shouldn't let the team down. Charley holed so
many good birdie putts that kept the match going, and I just came for the ride
for the last two."
South Korea earns 1.5 points The host team got off to a good start when South Korea's Hyo Joo Kim and Hye-Jin Choi beat Sweden's Maja Stark and Linn Grant 3 and 2. Then Jin Young Ko and Haeran Ryu finished tied with Ingrid Lindblad and Madelene Sagstrom. Under the tournament format, seven countries and a "rest of the world" team compete in two pools --- the U.S., China, Australia and Thailand in Pool A, and South Korea, the World team, Japan and Sweden in Pool B. The teams and their players were determined by the women's world ranking. The addition of a world team allows for players such as Ko of New Zealand and Henderson of Canada to play in the tournament.
4-ball matches continue over next 2 days Fourball matches continue on Friday and Saturday. The top two countries from each pool advance to Sunday's semifinals and finals that consist of one foursomes (alternate shot) and two singles matches. Thitikul was a member of the Thai team in 2023 which won the International Crown at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco and is the only player in the field who has won the event. Thitikul is a six-time winner on the LGPA tour, including wins this season at the Mizuho Americas Open and the Shanghai tournament two weeks ago. Last week Sei Young Kim won the BMW Ladies Championship, also in South Korea. The LPGA's Asian swing continues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next week and concludes in Shiga, Japan from Nov. 6-9. ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf
South Korea earns 1.5 points The host team got off to a good start when South Korea's Hyo Joo Kim and Hye-Jin Choi beat Sweden's Maja Stark and Linn Grant 3 and 2. Then Jin Young Ko and Haeran Ryu finished tied with Ingrid Lindblad and Madelene Sagstrom. Under the tournament format, seven countries and a "rest of the world" team compete in two pools --- the U.S., China, Australia and Thailand in Pool A, and South Korea, the World team, Japan and Sweden in Pool B. The teams and their players were determined by the women's world ranking. The addition of a world team allows for players such as Ko of New Zealand and Henderson of Canada to play in the tournament.
4-ball matches continue over next 2 days Fourball matches continue on Friday and Saturday. The top two countries from each pool advance to Sunday's semifinals and finals that consist of one foursomes (alternate shot) and two singles matches. Thitikul was a member of the Thai team in 2023 which won the International Crown at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco and is the only player in the field who has won the event. Thitikul is a six-time winner on the LGPA tour, including wins this season at the Mizuho Americas Open and the Shanghai tournament two weeks ago. Last week Sei Young Kim won the BMW Ladies Championship, also in South Korea. The LPGA's Asian swing continues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next week and concludes in Shiga, Japan from Nov. 6-9. ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf
