International Crown Tournament (Golf)

I like to play golf and also like to watch LPGA on TV.
In Last week, LPGA specially hosted an international tournament with a higher the 8 top-ranked/top-ranking countries.
This was started/began/'kicked off' last Thursday, I and all most people (including me) who like golf estimated assumed/expect ed that both USA and Korea were would easily progress/advance to go to the final round.
But something happened/went wrong that both neither country did not go to progressed/proceeded directly to the final round directly. So they both went through the play off.
After all In the end, Korea joined the final round with other 4 countries.

Negative sentences with 'either', 'both', 'all' need rephrasing.  Both countries advanced, Neither country advanced. Cannot say 'Both were not' instead say 'Neither was'