Minjee Lee led the way as Australia stunned the United States in the final to win the LPGA Tour’s International Crown for the first time on Sunday in South Korea.<\/p>\n
The Australians<\/a> clinched victory in the biennial team golf trophy when world number three Lee<\/a> beat Angel Yin<\/a> and Hannah Green<\/a> downed Yealimi Noh<\/a> in their singles matches, both 2 and 1.<\/p>\n Steph Kyriacou<\/a> and Grace Kim<\/a> tied their foursomes match<\/a> with Lilia Vu<\/a> and Lauren Coughlin<\/a> but by that time the result was already in the bag.<\/p>\n Lee, a three-time major winner, said the team nature of the victory made it even more special.<\/p>\n “I’m so happy that I could do it with these girls, it was just a lot of fun this whole week,” she said.<\/p>\n “Playing match play is something different and we don’t get to do it too often.”<\/p>\n Lee came through a close battle with Yin, with neither player managing to edge more than one ahead until the Australian broke clear at the end.<\/p>\n Kyriacou said the Australians had to dig deep to lift the trophy in their fifth appearance in the\u00a0LPGA International Crown<\/a>, including a runner-up finish to Thailand two years ago.<\/p>\n “In a lot of our matches we were behind the eight-ball, especially going into the back nine,” said Kyriacou.<\/p>\n “We managed to come back in every match with me and Gracey.<\/p>\n “I think having grit throughout the week got us over the line.”<\/p>\n Australia beat the World team<\/a> in Sunday morning’s semi-finals while the Americans got the better of Japan.<\/p>\n The World team beat Japan for third place after singles wins for England’s Charley Hull<\/a> and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko<\/a> over Ayake Furue<\/a> and Rio Takeda<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n Mao Saigo<\/a> and Miyu Yamashita<\/a> beat Taiwan’s Hsu Wei-ling<\/a> and Canada’s Brooke Henderson<\/a> in the foursomes match.<\/p>\n Thailand, China, South Korea and Sweden were eliminated in the pool stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minjee Lee led the way as Australia stunned the United States in the final to win the LPGA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-228340","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\/228340","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=228340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}