Led by the magnificent Minjee Lee and steely Steph Kyriacou, who both finished unbeaten in five thrilling match-play encounters, Australia captured the unofficial “World Cup” of women’s golf after a day of high drama in Seoul.<\/p>\n
Fittingly, world No.3 Lee put Australia 1-0 in front with a 2 & 1 triumph over Angel Yin in the opening singles match of the final before fellow heavyweight Hannah Green clinched the tie with a 2 & 1 victory over Yealimi Noh.<\/p>\n
With 11 birdies in 16 holes in a phenomenal semi-final display earlier on Sunday, Noh and Yin had been colossal for Team USA all week.<\/p>\n
But the pair could not match Lee and Green, who stood up when it mattered most.<\/p>\n
While all four Australians contributed, Lee was a class above.<\/p>\n
The triple major champion accrued 4.5 out of a possible 5 points for the week, going unbeaten in three four-ball matches with Kyriacou, then winning both her singles encounters in Sunday’s semis and final.<\/p>\n
Lee’s stunning 1 up victory over Canadian Brook Henderson, from three down with six holes to play, was a win for the ages – and the 29-year-old’s fourth comeback win of the week. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kyriacou was immense too, draining a tension-filled nine-foot downhill slider for birdie on the 18th hole on Saturday to thrust Australia into the semi-finals during her own unbeaten campaign in four-balls and foursomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Green had not won a point in five days before burying the winning birdie putt in the final, while it was Kim’s similarly pressure-cooker birdie putt on Saturday that vaulted her and Kyriacou’s foursomes into the sudden death semi-final play-off that Australia ultimately won on the 20th hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by the magnificent Minjee Lee and steely Steph Kyriacou, who both finished unbeaten in five thrilling match-play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-241622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}