GURNEE, Ill. – England squeezed about as much excitement into the single point it won Friday at the UL International Crown as a team could at the Merit Club.
And England’s Mel Reid won about as much respect as a player could losing her dramatic match.
With England learning at day’s start that its star, Charley Hull, was ill and unable to play Friday’s fourballs against Japan, the English showed their grit fighting shorthanded to stay atop the Pool B standings.
Reid took on Japan all by herself in the best-ball format, and she made the Japanese birdie the final hole to beat her, 1 up.