GOYANG, South Korea — The USA stayed good on the LPGA’s Worldwide Crown event on Friday, successful its third and fourth fourball matches and ending No. 1-ranked Jeeno Thitikul’s unbeaten file within the staff competitors.
Individuals Yealimi Noh and Angel Yin beat Thitikul and Pajaree Anannarukarn 5 and 4, handing Thitikul her first loss after six consecutive match wins within the occasion. Lilia Vu and Lauren Coughlin later gained the second fourball match for the Individuals, beating Chanettee Wannasaen and Jasmine Suwannapura 3 and a couple of on the New Korea Nation Membership.
On Thursday, the top-seeded Individuals beat China twice. The U.S. — the one unbeaten staff within the event — leads Pool A with 4 factors and has clinched a spot in Sunday’s semifinals.
All eight groups will play a 3rd set of fourball matches on Saturday.
Australia and China break up 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 Inexperienced and Grace Kim 1-up.
In Pool B, Japan and Sweden additionally break up Friday’s matches. Miyu Yamashita and Rio Takeda beat Madelene Sagstrom and Ingrid Lindblad 3 and a couple of however Maja Stark and Linn Grant gave Sweden a win, defeating Mao Saigo and Ayaka Furue 3 and a couple of.
The World staff picked up 1 1-2 factors in opposition to South Korea and leads Pool B with three factors from two wins and two ties.
England’s Charley Hull sunk a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th gap to offer her and World teammate New Zealander Lydia Ko a 1-up win over Hyo Joo Kim and Hye-Jin Choi. Jin Younger Ko and Haeran Ryu tied their match with Wei-Ling Hsu of Taiwan and Canada’s Brooke Henderson.
“I managed to whack it, however I do not wish to whack it too exhausting as a result of I do not wish to have a fiddler coming again,” Hull mentioned. “So simply thought gap it and save the stress.”
Beneath the event format, seven nations and a “remainder of the world” staff compete in two swimming pools. The groups and their gamers have been decided by the ladies’s world rating.
The highest two nations from every pool advance to Sunday’s semifinals and closing that consists of 1 foursomes (alternate shot) and two singles matches.
Final week Sei Younger Kim gained 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.
