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10/24 02:33 CDT Americans win fourth straight fourball match at the LPGA's
International Crown team event
Americans win fourth straight fourball match at the LPGA's International Crown
team event
GOYANG, South Korea (AP) --- The United States stayed perfect at the LPGA's
International Crown tournament on Friday, winning its third and fourth fourball
matches and ending No. 1-ranked Jeeno Thitikul unbeaten record in the team
competition.
Americans Yealimi Noh and Angel Yin beat Thitikul and Pajaree Anannarukarn 5
and 4, handing Thitikul her first loss after six consecutive match wins in the
event. Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin later won the second fourball match for the
Americans, beating Chanettee Wannasaen and Jasmine Suwannapura 3 and 2 at the
New Korea Country Club.
On Thursday, the top-seeded Americans beat China twice. The U.S. --- the only
unbeaten team in the tournament --- leads Pool A with four points and has
clinched a place in Sunday's semifinals.
All eight teams will play a third set of fourball matches on Saturday.
Australia and China split their Pool A fourball matches Friday. Minjee Lee and
Stephanie Kyriacou beat Zhang Weiwei and Liu Yan 2 and 1 and China's Yin
Ruoning and Ruixin Liu defeated Australians Hannah Green and Grace Kim 1-up.
In Pool B, Japan and Sweden also split Friday's matches. Miyu Yamashita and Rio
Takeda beat Madelene Sagstrom and Ingrid Lindblad 3 and 2 but Maja Stark and
Linn Grant gave Sweden a win, defeating Mao Saigo and Ayaka Furue 3 and 2.
The World team picked up 1 1-2 points against South Korea and leads Pool B with
three points from two wins and two ties.
England's Charley Hull sunk a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to give her
and World teammate New Zealander Lydia Ko a 1-up win over Hyo Joo Kim and
Hye-Jin Choi. Jin Young Ko and Haeran Ryu tied their match with Wei-Ling Hsu of
Taiwan and Canada's Brooke Henderson.
Under the tournament format, seven countries and a "rest of the world" team
compete in two pools. The teams and their players were determined by the
women's world ranking.
The top two countries from each pool advance to Sunday's semifinals and final
that consists of one foursomes (alternate shot) and two singles matches.
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.
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