The 2023 Hanwha LifePlus International Crown was a women's golf team event organized by the LPGA, played May 4–7 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California. This was the fourth International Crown, a biennial match play event contested between teams of four players representing eight countries. The winning team earn $500,000, or $125,000 per player.
Format The competition took place over four days. It featured four-ball competition on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The top two countries from each pool advanced to Sunday. Two semifinal matches were played Sunday morning. Each semifinal match consisted of two singles matches and one foursomes match. The winning semifinal countries competed in the final match on Sunday afternoon, and a third-place match took place between the two losing semifinal countries. Both matches used the same format as the semifinals.
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Teams On November 21, 2022, immediately following the CME Group Tour Championship, eight teams qualified to participate in this event, based on the combined Women's World Golf Rankings of the top four players from each country: Australia, China, England, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States.
The team members were announced on April 11, 2023, confirmed via the Women's World Golf Rankings as of April 3, and divided into two pools.
+ Teams Pool Seed Rank Country A 1 34 B 2 48 B 3 100 A 4 111 A 5 174 B 6 213 B 7 309 A 8 481
Pool A Pool B+#1 United States Rank Player 2 Nelly Korda 6 Lexi Thompson 12 Lilia Vu 14 Danielle Kang+ #2 South Korea Rank Player 3 Ko Jin-young 9 Kim Hyo-joo 11 Chun In-gee 25 Choi Hye-jin+#4 Sweden Rank Player 27 Maja Stark 28 Madelene Sagström 34 Anna Nordqvist 117 Caroline Hedwall+ #3 Japan Rank Player 13 Nasa Hataoka 19 Ayaka Furue 30 Yuka Saso 38 Hinako Shibuno+ #5 England Rank Player 45 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 103 Bronte Law 165 Alice Hewson 207 Liz Young+ #6 Thailand Rank Player 4 Atthaya Thitikul 57 Patty Tavatanakit 71 Moriya Jutanugarn 81 Ariya Jutanugarn+ #8 China Rank Player 17 Lin Xiyu 32 Yin Ruoning 181 Yu Liu 251 Ruixin Liu+ #7 Australia Rank Player 5 Minjee Lee 23 Hannah Green 107 Stephanie Kyriacou 174 Sarah Kemp Changes: for Sweden, Linn Grant (ranked 22) was unable to participate and was replaced by Caroline Hedwall. for England, Georgia Hall (ranked 10) and Charley Hull (ranked 16) withdrew late and were replaced by Alice Hewson and Liz Young.
Results Round one pool play Thursday, May 4, 2023
Pool A Sweden vs. England Nordqvist/Hedwall (SWE) defeated Law/Ewart Shadoff (ENG), 4 & 3 Sagström/Stark (SWE) defeated Young/Hewson (ENG), 5 & 4 United States vs. China Vu/Korda (USA) defeated Yin/Lin (CHN), 2 & 1 R Liu/L Liu (CHN) defeated Kang/Thompson (USA), 1 up
Standings after round one Seed Team Points Win Loss Tie 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 8 1 1 1 0 5 0 0 2 0
Pool B Japan vs. Thailand Thitikul/Tavatanakit (THA) defeated Saso/Furue (JPN), 1 up M Jutanugarn/A Jutanugarn (THA) defeated Hataoka/Shibuno (JPN), 2 up South Korea vs. Australia Lee/Kyriacou (AUS) defeated Choi/Chun (KOR), 2 up Green/Kemp (AUS) defeated Kim/Ko (KOR), 2 & 1
Standings after round one Seed Team Points Win Loss Tie 6 2 2 0 0 7 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 2 0
Round two pool play Friday, May 5, 2023
Pool A Sweden vs. China Sagström/Stark (SWE) defeated Yin/Lin (CHN), 2 & 1 Nordqvist/Hedwall (SWE) defeated R Liu/L Liu (CHN), 2 & 1 United States vs. England Vu/Korda (USA) defeated Young/Hewson (ENG), 2 & 1 Kang/Thompson (USA) defeated Law/Ewart Shadoff (ENG), 3 & 2
Standings after round two Seed Team Points Win Loss Tie 4 4 4 0 0 1 3 3 1 0 8 1 1 3 0 5 0 0 4 0
Pool B Japan vs. Australia Lee/Kyriacou (AUS) defeated Hataoka/Furue (JPN), 2 up Green/Kemp (AUS) and Shibuno/Saso (JPN), halved Thailand vs. South Korea Thitikul/Tavatanakit (THA) defeated Kim/Ko (KOR), 3 & 2 M Jutanugarn/A Jutanugarn (THA) defeated Choi/Chun (KOR), 2 & 1
Standings after round two Seed Team Points Win Loss Tie 6 4 4 0 0 7 3.5 3 0 1 3 0.5 0 3 1 2 0 0 4 0
Round three pool play Saturday, May 6, 2023
Pool A Sweden vs. United States Nordqvist/Hedwall (SWE) defeated Kang/Thompson (USA), 1 up Vu/Korda (USA) and Sagström/Stark (SWE), halved China vs. England Yin/Lin (CHN) defeated Law/Ewart Shadoff (ENG), 2 & 1 Young/Hewson (ENG) defeated R Liu/L Liu (CHN), 1 up
Standings after round three Seed Team Points Win Loss Tie 4 5.5 5 0 1 1 3.5 3 2 1 8 2 2 4 0 5 1 1 5 0
Pool B Thailand vs. Australia M Jutanugarn/A Jutanugarn (THA) defeated Green/Kemp (AUS), 3 & 2 Thitikul/Tavatanakit (THA) defeated Lee/Kyriacou (AUS), 1 up Japan vs. South Korea Kim/Ko (KOR) defeated Shibuno/Saso (JPN), 3 & 2 Choi/Chun (KOR) defeated Hataoka/Furue (JPN), 2 & 1
Standings after round three Seed Team Points Win Loss Tie 6 6 6 0 0 7 3.5 3 2 1 2 2 2 4 0 3 0.5 0 5 1
Finals Sunday, May 7, 2023
Semi-finals Sweden vs. Australia Kyriacou (AUS) defeated Nordqvist (SWE), 4 & 3 Green (AUS) defeated Hedwall (SWE), 3 & 2 Lee/Kemp (AUS) defeated Sagström/Stark (SWE), 5 & 3 United States vs. Thailand Thitikul (THA) defeated Thompson (USA), 3 & 2 Vu (USA) defeated Tavatanakit (THA), 1 up M Jutanugarn/A Jutanugarn (THA) defeated Kang/Korda (USA), 1 up
3rd place match Sweden vs. United States Sagström (SWE) defeated Vu (USA), 5 & 4 Thompson (USA) defeated Stark (SWE), 3 & 2 Kang/Korda (USA) defeated Nordqvist/Hedwall (SWE), 1 up
Final Thailand vs. Australia Thitikul (THA) defeated Kyriacou (AUS), 4 & 2 Tavatanakit (THA) defeated Green (AUS), 4 & 3 M Jutanugarn/A Jutanugarn (THA) defeated Lee/Kemp (AUS), 4 & 3
Final standings Place Team Points Win Loss Tie Money ($)(per player) 1 11 11 1 0 125,000 2 6.5 6 5 1 75,900 3 6.5 6 5 1 64,400 4 6.5 6 5 1 55,200 T5 2 2 4 0 40,825 2 2 4 0 7 1 1 5 0 35,650 8 0.5 0 5 1 32,200
References
External links
Coverage on the official LPGA website