The LET team led by Captain Gwladys Nocera - had chosen not to line up for this first day - Europe lost three of its four meetings this Friday during this first round of The Queens in Japan.

The-Queens-LET- difficult first round

The Korean LPGA squad flew over their four-ball games at Miyoshi Country Club on Friday to maintain a solid lead after the opening day of The Queens presented by Kowa in Japan.

“Today everyone was in really good shape and we came out on top with some superb scores,” Kim said at a press conference, alongside the other captains representing the Korean, Japanese, Australian tours. and Europeans.

Gwladys Nocera, Captain-player of the Ladies European Tour team engaged in the third edition of The Queens, had chosen not to line up in the four balls of the first day. With four games on the program and nine players in total, the veteran with 14 career successes on the LET had preferred to let her teammates face their counterparts from the Australian (ALPG Tour), Korean (KLPGA Tour) and Japanese (LPGA of Japan) circuits.

The bet did not pay off, since the duets composed by Nocera lost in three of the four meetings, only the Anglo-South African pair of Felicity Johnson and Lee-Anne Pace bringing back the two points of the victory thanks to a 2 & 1 success against Stacey Peters and Kathryn Bristow (ALPG). For the rest, the English Holly Clyburn and Florentyna Johnson lost 2 & 1 against the Japanese Ritsuko Ryu and Lala Anai, the other English Annabel Dimmock and Melissa Reid lost 3 & 1 against the Koreans Hae-Rym Kim and Ji-Hyun Kim, and finally Scotland's Carly Booth and her Icelandic partner Olafia Kristinsdottir fell 4 & 3 against Seon-Woo Bae and Jeong-Eun Lee of the KLPGA Tour.

“It was a difficult day. Obviously, we were hoping for better results, but the games were of a very good level and my players fought to the end. I take great pleasure in my role as captain. It's hard to watch other people play, but I know they're doing their best, just like I'm going to do my best for them tomorrow ”, said the Frenchwoman. With two points on the clock, the LET team is provisionally 3rd, behind the Koreans (8 points thanks to 4 wins) and the Japanese (5 points with 2 wins and a tie), and ahead of the Australians (1 point with a tie) .


(source: ffgolf.org)

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