GOYANG, South Korea — Australia beat the US Staff to win LPGA’s Worldwide Crown match on Sunday, clinching the title after Minjee Lee and Hannah Inexperienced took each of their singles matches, with every successful, 2 and 1, over Angel Yin and Yealimi Noh, respectively.
The foursomes match between Australians Stephanie Kyriacou and Grace Kim and People Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin completed in a tie, however was inconsequential when Inexperienced secured victory on the seventeenth gap within the second singles match on the New Korea Nation Membership.
It is the primary win for Australia on the match-play match, which eluded them in 2023 when present No. 1 ranked Jeeno Thitikul and Thailand beat them within the remaining at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
The World staff completed in third place after Charley Hull and Lydia Ko each had spectacular victories of their singles matches in opposition to Japan to take an unassailable lead within the three match tie.
Hull led out for the World staff with a 4 and three win over Ayaka Furue and Ko sealed the third place end with a 3 and a pair of win over Rio Takeda.
Mao Saigo and Miyu Yamashita beat Brooke Henderson and Wei-Ling Hsu 4 and three within the foursomes to slender the deficit for the Japanese.
Semifinal heartache for World staff Earlier Sunday, Kyriacou and Kim beat Wei-Ling and Ko of the World staff on the twentieth gap to clinch a spot within the remaining for the Aussies after the singles had completed at one win apiece.
Hull had edged previous Hannah Inexperienced 2 and 1 to place the World staff forward after the primary singles match, earlier than Minjee Lee rallied in her tie in opposition to Canada’s Henderson to win 1-up and degree the match.
The highest-seeded United States staff had a extra simple path to the ultimate as Yin had a 2 and 1 win over Japan’s Takeda, earlier than Noh sealed the People spot with gap wins on the thirteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth for a snug 4 and a pair of victory over Yamashita.
Furue and Saigo took a comfort victory for Japan and ended the US good file this week once they had a 1-up win of Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin within the foursomes.
Underneath the match format, seven international locations and a “remainder of the world” staff compete in two swimming pools. The groups and their gamers had been decided by the ladies’s world rating.
The highest two international locations from every pool superior Sunday’s semifinals and remaining that consisted of 1 foursomes (alternate shot) and two singles matches.
Final week Sei Younger Kim received the BMW Women Championship, additionally in South Korea. The LPGA’s Asian swing continues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia subsequent week and concludes in Shiga, Japan from Nov. 6-9.