England’s Charley Hull and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko won their singles matches to help the World team beat Japan and finish third at the LPGA Tour’s International Crown tournament.<\/p>\n
Australia stunned the United States in the final to win the biennial competition for the first time.<\/p>\n
World number three Minjee Lee beat Angel Yin and Hannah Green defeated Yealimi Noh in their singles matches.<\/p>\n
The tournament brings together seven national teams and the World team, each made up of four players who participate in the matchplay event, with a total prize pot of $2m (\u00a31,502,855).<\/p>\n
“I’m so happy that I could do it with these girls, it was just a lot of fun this whole week,” three-time major winner Lee said.<\/p>\n
“Playing matchplay is something different and we don’t get to do it too often.”<\/p>\n
Australia beat the World team in Sunday’s semi-finals while the USA defeated Japan.<\/p>\n
Thailand, China, South Korea and Sweden were eliminated in the pool stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Charley Hull and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko won their singles matches to help the World team beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-226394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}