{"id":1989,"date":"2016-06-14T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2016-06-14T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:48:07","slug":"field-set-for-international-crown-lpgas-8-nation-team-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/golf\/personalities\/1989\/field-set-for-international-crown-lpgas-8-nation-team-event","title":{"rendered":"Field set for International Crown, LPGA’s 8-nation team event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UL<\/a>The players are in. The schedule is out.<\/p>\n

Team USA has received the No. 2 seed in the UL International Crown, an eight-nation, 32-player LPGA event that will be played July 21-24 at the Merit Club in Gurnee, Ill., north of Chicago.<\/p>\n

The four players on the U.S. team are Lexi Thompson, Stacy Lewis, Gerina Piller and Cristie Kerr.<\/p>\n

They will face No. 7 England on Thursday, No. 6 Thailand on Friday and No. 3 Japan on Saturday. Those four-ball matches will be followed by singles matches on Sunday. Five teams will advance to the singles matches.<\/p>\n

The Republic of Korea received the top seed in the tournament. No. 4 Australia, No. 5 Taiwan and No. 8 China also are in Korea\u2019s bracket.<\/p>\n

\"Crown<\/a>Inbee Park will be joined on the Korean team by Sei Young Kim, In Gee Chun and Amy Yang.<\/p>\n

This will be the second International Crown. Spain won the inaugural championship in Maryland in 2014, and Sweden was runnerup. The event will be played in South Korea in 2018.<\/p>\n

“This is an event that will have a global Olympic kind of feel,\u2019\u2019 LPGA communications chief Kraig Kann said.<\/p>\n

Tickets and information about volunteer opportunities can be found at the ULCrown.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

Based on rankings, Korea, which will be represented by four of the world\u2019s top eight players, will be the favorite.<\/p>\n

But the vagaries of match play and the possibility of a Ryder-Cup-like crowd make the outcome far less clear-cut, as the inaugural International Crown showed.<\/p>\n

“I want as much noise, as many flags [as possible],\u2019\u2019 tournament director Drew Blass said. “I want the marshals to say, `We can\u2019t keep it down.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

———<\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter @HerbGould<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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