The 2014 International Crown was a women's golf team event organized by the LPGA, played July 24–27 at the Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, a suburb northwest of Baltimore. This was the inaugural International Crown, a biennial match play event contested between teams of four players representing eight countries. The field in 2014 consisted of 31 professionals and one amateur, and the winning team, Spain, earned $400,000, or $100,000 per player.
Format
The first three days, Thursday through Saturday, featured round-robin pool play matches at fourball. Each match was worth two points for a win and one point for a halve. Following the completion of pool play, the top two teams in each pool and one wild card team advanced to singles play. The five remaining teams were re-seeded based on points earned in pool play, and each team played one singles match against each of the other teams on Sunday. The total points earned in pool and singles play determined the team champion.
Course
Hole
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Out
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
In
Total
Yards
322
428
182
544
335
180
400
404
428
3,223
432
347
482
168
412
425
539
187
413
3,405
6,628
Par
4
4
3
5
4
3
4
4
4
35
4
4
5
3
4
4
5
3
4
36
71
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Teams
On November 13, 2013, eight teams qualified to participate in this event, based on the combined world rankings of the top four players from each country: Australia, Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. The team members were finalized on March 31, 2014, and divided into two pools. Due to a world rankings error, the teams from Australia and Chinese Taipei switched seeds and pools.
Initial
Pool A
Pool B
Revised
Pool A
Pool B
Late changes: for Japan, Rikako Morita declined to play; Shiho Oyama, the first alternate, also declined to play; Mamiko Higa finalized the Japanese team.
;Wild card Spain and Thailand advanced to singles played from pool A and Japan and Sweden advanced from pool B. The United States and South Korea each finished third in pool play and engaged in a sudden-death playoff for the wild card spot in singles play. Park and Ryu eliminated Kerr and Thompson on the first playoff hole and South Korea advanced to singles play. ;Standings
Reseed
Team
Points
Win
Loss
Tie
1
8
3
1
2
2
7
3
2
1
3
7
3
2
1
4
7
3
2
1
5
6
3
3
0
Singles play
Sunday, July 27, 2014 Spain swept its four singles matches and secured the title after the third win. Sweden and South Korea both won two matches while Japan and Thailand had one victory each.
Match 25: Park defeated Hedwall, 4 & 2
Match 26: Phatlum defeated Kim, 1 up
Match 27: Lindberg defeated A. Jutanugarn, 6 & 5
Match 28: Ciganda defeated Choi, 8 & 6
Match 29: Ryu defeated Yokomine, 1 up
Match 30: Recari defeated Parmlid, 3 & 2
Match 31: Nordqvist defeated Higa, 3 & 2
Match 32: Mozo defeated M. Jutanugarn, 3 & 2
Match 33: M. Miyazato defeated Sattayabanphot, 3 & 1
