Taiwan’s Hsu Wei-ling and Canada’s Brooke Henderson beat Sweden’s Madelene Sagstrom and Ingrid Lindblad 4 and 3 yesterday to qualify the World team for the International Crown semi-finals.
The win gave the World team their fourth point in Pool B from three wins and two ties in the LPGA team event at the New Korea Country Club.
In a later match, Maja Stark and Linn Grant of Sweden beat the World team’s Charley Hull and Lydia Ko 3 and 1.
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Australia also qualified for the semi-finals from Pool A, as did South Korea from Pool B.
“I’ve been waiting a long time for the World Team to come true, and I am just so grateful to be a part of this team,” Henderson said. “It’s been an incredible opportunity so far. I love my partner here, [Hsu] bailed me out a lot here today, and she played amazing all week. It’s been so much fun, and I’m really excited for tomorrow,” she said.
Going into yesterday’s final round of fourball matches, the US had already qualified for the semi-finals from Pool A with wins in their first four fourball matches.
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, which consists of one foursomes (alternate shot) and two singles matches.
Last week, Kim Sei-young won the BMW Ladies Championship, also in South Korea.
The LPGA’s Asian swing continues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this week and concludes in Shiga, Japan, from Nov. 6 to Nov. 9.
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