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USA Today
3 hours ago
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- USA Today
Lottie Woad earns low amateur honors at U.S. Women's Open, moves closer to LPGA card
Lottie Woad earns low amateur honors at U.S. Women's Open, moves closer to LPGA card ERIN, Wis. ― As if competing in a U.S. Women's Open wasn't demanding enough, Lottie Woad put a new pair of shoes in play during a practice round and "got beat up pretty bad with blisters." The world's top-ranked amateur battled through the long and undulating terrain of Erin Hills to top the amateur standings. Woad, one of six amateurs to make the cut out of the 26 in the field, carded a final-round 75 to finish at 5 over for the championship, two ahead of Texas's Farah O'Keefe and Carolina Lopez-Chacarra. Oregon's Kiara Romero vaulted up the board with the day's low round, 5-under 67, the lowest final round by an amateur in U.S. Women's Open history. "My right foot's OK," said Woad. "My left foot, I don't really know if you'd call it a blister. It kind of has no skin, so more of a wound." Woad's finish at the U.S. Women's Open earns her one point toward the LPGA's Elite Amateur Pathway program, new this year. A top-25 finish would've given her two points. She now has 17 of the 20 points needed to earn her LPGA card for the remainder of the 2025 season as well as 2026. The rising Florida State senior will earn another point next week at the Arnold Palmer Cup June 5-7 at Congaree Golf Club in South Carolina, where she'll represent the International team. Top-ranked amateurs are often invited to the Amundi Evian Championship and, if that's the case for Woad, a top-25 finish there would give the Englishwoman her LPGA card. She's already in the field for the AIG Women's British Open based off her top-10 finish last year at St. Andrews. She can play in that event as an amateur or a pro. "Definitely feel I can contend," said Woad of the state of her game. "Still a lot of things I need to work on. I've had a lot of experience in majors now and being in the final few groups over the weekend."
USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
At U.S. Women's Open, the world's best amateur is moving closer to coveted LPGA card
At U.S. Women's Open, the world's best amateur is moving closer to coveted LPGA card ERIN, Wisconsin – Lottie Woad's whirlwind summer will likely end with an LPGA card – perhaps sooner rather than later. Here at the 80th U.S. Women's Open, the world's top-ranked amateur says the tour's new LPGA Elite Amateur Pathway (LEAP) program remains in the back of her mind. "I try to push it away," said Woad, "but it's obviously there." Midway through the festivities at Erin Hills, the decorated Englishwoman is 2 under for the championship after rounds of 72-70, six back of leader Mao Saigo and securely inside the top 20. An amateur player must earn 20 points in the LEAP program to earn her LPGA card, and the Florida State star currently has 16. She can earn two points this week with a top 25 finish or only one point for a cut made. After the USWO, Woad heads to the Arnold Palmer Cup June 5-7 at Congaree Golf Club in South Carolina. She'll earn a point there for representing the International team. Top-ranked amateurs are often invited to the Amundi Evian Championship and, if that's the case for Woad, a made cut there would give the Englishwoman her LPGA card for the rest of the 2025 season as well as 2026, should she manage to finish in the top 25 this week. She's already in the field for the AIG Women's British Open based off her top-10 finish last year at St. Andrews. She can play in that event as an amateur or a pro. Worst case, she'll lock it up after the conclusion of the U.S. Women's Amateur in August based off her standing in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The player who wins the Mark H. McCormack Medal for finishing No. 1 earns three points. Those who finish second or third earn two points. But first, there's work left to do at Erin Hills, where the 2024 Augusta National Women's Amateur champion is the low amateur in the field, tied for 20th with 16-year-old Rayee Feng.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
British trio four shots off lead at US Women's Open
US Open first round leaderboard-4 Yin (US), Lopez (Spa), Takeda (Jpn) Noh (US), Im (Kor), Kim (Kor); -3 Iwai (Jpn), Hatoaka (Jpn), Tamburlini (Swi), Hwang (Kor), Kawamoto (Kor)Selected others: E Dryburgh (Sco), Hull (Eng), Woad (Eng), Korda (US); +1 Lee (Aus); +2 Saso (Jpn)Full leaderboard British trio Charley Hull, Gemma Dryburgh and Lottie Woad sit four shots off the lead, alongside world number one Nelly Korda, after the first round of the US Women's Open. They are all at level par on a congested leaderboard at Erin Hills in world number 11 Angel Yin and 2020 champion A Lim Kim are among six players in the joint lead on four under after a day when 58 players shot level par or better. England's Hull, who was two over after 11 holes, hit birdies on the 12th and 16th holes to post a 72 and match the efforts of Scotland's Dryburgh who birdied the 13th and 14th holes to wipe out early Lottie Woad, who won the prestigious Augusta National Women's Amateur in 2024, was three under after 10 holes but a double-bogey six on the par-four 17th saw her drop major winner Korda had one bogey and one birdie in her 72."Overall, I can't complain," said the American. "First day, it's all about patience. I'm striking it pretty well, so hopefully I can carry that into the next couple days."
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
FSU women's golf win programs third NCAA Regional tournament, book spot in NCAA championship
Florida State women's golf won the NCAA Lexington regional and booked a spot in the NCAA women's golf championship. The No. 2 Seminoles and regional top seed are headed to Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, for the NCAA Championships after winning their regional with a team score of -15, led by Lottie Woad and Mirbel Ting, who both shot -10. Advertisement This is the third regional title in program history, all of which have been won in the last five years. FSU previously won the Louisville regional in 2021 and the Tallahassee Regional in 2022. Both Woad and Ting, FSU's top golfers and the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked amateurs in the world, finished tied second behind Kansas State's Carla Bernet, who shot -12 and -6 in the final round to win the individual title at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The Seminoles finished five strokes ahead of second-place Kansas State and Georgia Southern, who shot -10. FSU was the only team under par after round one and was one of two programs under par heading into the final round. Advertisement They finished as just one of four teams in red numbers. FSU has now claimed an ACC championship and regional title in the program's quest for an NCAA title. Opening round action of the NCAA Championship is set for May 16, and the tournament runs until May 21. FSU women's golf NCAA Regional scores Team score of the top five advancing programs FSU: -15 Georgia Southern: -10 Kansas State: -10 USC (Southern California): -7 Vanderbilt: +2 FSU individual scores T2 - Lottie Woad: -10 T2 -Mirabel Ting: -10 17 - Kaylah Williams: E 39 - Sophia Fullbrook: +7 Subs Alexandra Gazzoli: +14 (Rounds 1/2) Layla Pedrique: +4 (Round 3) Liam Rooney covers Florida State athletics for the Tallahassee Democrat. Contact him via email at LRooney@ or on Twitter @__liamrooney This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: FSU women's golf dominate Lexington regional, win third title
NBC Sports
05-04-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
One wrong club and near misses cost Lottie Woad a chance at Augusta National Women's Am repeat
AUGUSTA, Ga. – What we remember in defeat here are the calamitous moments, the shots that are too bold and others too timid, the splashes and the trickles and the flubs. But Augusta National doesn't just test a player's power and touch and discipline. It's also a measure of stone-cold precision. So it was that Lottie Woad stood in the middle of the 10th fairway, eying up her approach into the downhill green as she tried to chase down another Augusta National Women's Amateur title. The 21-year-old Englishwoman has enjoyed a banner season, and it all began here a year ago. Though she was ranked No. 4 in the world, Woad lacked a significant title against the game's best at this level. That changed that magical day last April when she survived a few early stumbles to birdie three of the last four holes and win arguably the most prestigious women's amateur event in the world. Woad's life changed that day – more obligations, expectation, recognizability. But so, too, did her career. An ascension to world No. 1. Major starts. A victorious Curtis Cup appearance. And during her day job in college golf, with the latest class off to the pros, she was the new targeted player to beat. All she's done since is finish inside the top 3 in every event she's played for Florida State. 'This week is definitely different to last year,' Woad said earlier this week in Augusta, 'coming in with bigger expectations and stuff like that. But I'd be very proud of how I dealt with that if I could manage to win it.' As she learned last year in victory, Woad's opening round at Champions Retreat could set the tone for the week. She recorded an opening 65 to sit two shots back, then played solidly enough in Round 2 to grab a share of the 36-hole lead and earn her way back into the final group. An opening birdie Saturday helped give her a two-shot cushion, but it was clear from the outset she wasn't completely dialed. She bricked a short birdie putt on the second. She missed the green on the par-3 sixth and made bogey. And as she stepped into her shot on 10, she hadn't just been caught but passed by Spaniard Carla Bernat Escuder, a senior transfer at Kansas State who has enjoyed college success but lacked any big-game bona fides. Golf Channel Staff, On 10, Woad was between clubs, a 5- and 6-iron, and opted for more club into the wind to get all the way to the back hole location. That turned out to be a mistake. Taking a lower-lofted club off the downslope, her approach came in too flat, landing pin-high and without backspin, hopping over the back, rolling down the steep slope and coming to rest in a bush. 'I put a good swing on it, it was just the wrong club,' said Woad, who had her English team coach, Steve Robinson, on the bag. 'Then got in an unfortunate position, so probably was always going to make 6 from there.' The double bogey dropped her three shots back and in a need of a second-nine scramble. Of course, Woad knew from own experience it was possible – her final flourish last year included birdies on 15, 17 and 18 – and the leaderboard told a similar story, with four scores in the 60s already posted. 'At that point there was nothing to lose,' she said. 'Just said, 'Let's make some birdies,' and that was really it.' Sure enough, Woad began to mount a comeback. She lipped out an eagle chip on 13 and then stuffed her approach into 14 to pull within two shots of Bernat Escuder, but her final hour proved to be anticlimactic. Woad failed to get up-and-down from the bunker on 15 and settled for par, then one-armed her tee shot on 16 and made bogey to, officially, end her chances, much to the dismay of her cheering squad of coaches and Florida State teammates who followed along with every shot. 'I'm pretty frustrated,' Woad said afterward. 'Played decent tee to green, just didn't hole really any putts, and that's what it came down to in the end.' And there it was again, those margins, the thin lines between success and failure that, somehow, seem even thinner at Augusta. There were countless examples late. The bunker shot on 15 that repelled away from the flag instead of climbing the ridge. The shot from the sand on 16 that somehow stayed on the top shelf. The approach on 17 that was inches away from catching the slope and funneling toward the hole. It added up to a final-round 72, a solo-third finish and a disappointing slog up the hill to the patrons waiting around the 18th green. 'I think you learn every time you're in contention – it's just putting yourself in those positions, really,' she said. 'You can't win every time. The goal coming into it was just to be in contention. So got that, and, yeah, it was a pretty good defense in the end.' It just ended a few holes earlier than expected.
