LPGA TOUR'S INAUGURAL TEAM TROPHY TITLE COMES TO EUROPE

MATCH-PLAY MAESTROS SPAIN WIN  

 INTERNATIONAL CROWN TROPHY

 

FROM THE GOLF CHANNEL WEBSITE

By Randall Mell

July 27, 2014, 7:30 pm

OWINGS MILLS, Baltimore, Maryland – Beatriz Recari sized up the LPGA Tour's inaugural International Crown Team Match-play Trophy during the gala on the eve of the inaugural matches and made a bold claim.
“We’re taking that home with us,” Recari said.
Recari was having fun, but she wasn’t kidding. The Spaniards were on a mission. They won Sunday with bravado that would have made the late match-play maestro Seve Ballesteros proud of his fellow Spaniards.
With a staggering sweep of all four of its singles matches on Sunday, Spain ran away with the first playing of the international team event. 
Recari, Carlota Ciganda, Belen Mozo and Azahara Munoz all closed out their singles victories before reaching the 18th green.
“We just like to trash talk,” Mozo cracked good-naturedly. “It’s how we are. We accept trash talk back. We like it, we embrace it. It’s how competitive we are.”
The quartet paraded away from Caves Valley Golf Club with the trophy and their individual sterling silver crowns as part of their winner’s haul.
“It means so much to us, for our country,” Recari said. “We feel the flag. Our blood boils when we hear the anthem, and when we see the flag. That's for you to have an idea of what it means for us. "We're just so stoked that we did it, and that we can take this trophy back home.”
Mozo clinched the crown, rolling in a 12-foot birdie putt at the 16th hole to close out a 3-and-2 victory against Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn with two matches still on the course.
“I had absolutely no idea,” Mozo said, not knowing what was on the line as it was happening. “I just wanted to make the putt. You don’t understand how much.”


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