Main winners Minjee Lee, Hannah Inexperienced and Grace Kim will lead a strong Australian line-up on the prestigious girls’s Worldwide Crown workforce occasion in South Korea.
With Lee, Inexperienced, 2025 main winner Grace Kim and mercurial expertise Steph Kyriacou forming a formidable workforce, Australia is seeded fourth for the biennial match-play occasion, which begins on Thursday.
After dropping the 2023 ultimate to Thailand, which can once more be led by world primary Jeeno Thitikul, Inexperienced is tipping one other sturdy displaying from the Australians.
“We’re all very excited and we’re all aggressive in opposition to each other,” Inexperienced stated.
“Hopefully that can present once we are taking part in on the golf course.
“We’re actually excited and I would not be stunned if we do nicely, as a result of we now have workforce bond and that is essential for this event.”
Even with out world quantity two Nelly Korda, the US is high seed forward of Japan, South Korea and Australia.
Thailand, Sweden, a World workforce and China spherical out the eight-team occasion.
Grace Kim who received the Evian Championship in July and can be representing Australia on the Worldwide Crown. (AP: Laurent Cipriani)
Australia has been pitted in opposition to the US, Thailand and eighth-seeded China in Pool A.
World quantity three Lee is the one participant on the occasion to have featured in all six earlier editions.
Inexperienced returned to kind final week together with her first top-10 end of the season since April.
After lacking the lower in 5 of her earlier six begins, Inexperienced credited her tie for fifth on the Women Championship in South Korea to a extra relaxed strategy.
“I believe all through the season I used to be looking to see what I used to be doing mistaken,” Inexperienced stated.
“Normally at our stage, we’re at all times repeating — it could be just a bit tweak right here and there.”
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