Women’s Golf: Laura Davies-Mel Reid Lead The QUEENS Fourball Lineups
Women’s golf will get a new power couple when Dame Laura Davies and Melissa Reid lead the LET team into Friday’s fourball matches at The QUEENS presented by Kowa.
Ladies European Tour Team Captain Dame Laura Davies and playing partner Melissa Reid will be hoping for a fast start when they lead out Europe in the opening fourballs at The Queens presented by Kowa at Miyoshi Country Club in Aichi, Japan, on Friday morning.
The English duo won their fourball match 4 and 3 against Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang in The 2011 Solheim Cup at Killeen Castle and they are determined to kick start their team’s effort in a similar fashion by beating Japan’s Ayaka Watanabe and Erika Kikuchi in the first edition of the unique match play tournament being played between four of the world’s leading women’s golf tours this weekend.
History will be made when four teams of nine players, each with a playing captain, from the Ladies European Tour, Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association of Japan, Ladies Korean LPGA and Australian Professional Golf Inc., tee off on the West Course on Friday.
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The fourballs go out in 10 minute intervals and next on the course will be Katherine Kirk and Nikki Garrett for Australia who will be up against Korean US Women’s Open champion In Gee Chun and her partner Yoon Ji Cho.
The third match will see two of this year’s maiden Ladies European Tour winners, Hannah Burke from England and Danish rookie professional Emily Kristine Pedersen, up against Sarah Kemp and Sarah Jane Smith of Australia.
LPGA Rookie of the Year Sei Young Kim and Jin Young Ko of Korea will then face Shiho Oyama and Misuzu Narita of Japan in the fourth match. Ritsuko Ryu and Miki Sakai will take on the experienced Australian captain Rachel Hetherington and Whitney Hillier, before four-time European Solheim Cup team member Gwladys Nocera of France and Norwegian Marianne Skarpnord face Koreans Jung Min Lee and Min Sun Kim.
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In the seventh match, Australians Lindsey Wright and Stephanie Na are pitted against the Japanese team captain Momoko Ueda and Erina Hara. In the final match of the day, experienced Solheim Cup players Catriona Matthew of Scotland and Karine Icher of France are up against the Korean captain Bo-Mee Lee and Sung Hyun Park.
Icher and Matthew beat Lizette Salas and Brittany Lang 2 and 1 in their fourball match at this year’s Solheim Cup in Germany and are the highest placed Ladies European Tour team members on the World Rankings.
Davies has chosen a strong final pairing for day one and is hoping to carry some momentum through to the day two foursomes before all 36 players compete in the 18 singles matches on Sunday.
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North American fans can follow The Queens Cup on the LET electronic leaderboard. ProGolfNow will also provide ongoing commentary and updates; and Golf Channel will provide televised coverage via Golf Live Etra of the 2nd round on Saturday, December 5 at 2:30pm ET and the final round on Sunday, December 6 at 2pm ET. In other locations check your local listings.