With the big men’s championship season ended after the Scottie Scheffler open championship win last week, Golf Golf has the scene of all for the next two weeks, with this week ISPS Handa Scotti Open Leading to AIG Women’s Open at Royal PartthCawl.
Is a time suitable for lottie Woad, the amateur star who simply Completed T3 at Amundi Evian ChampionshipTo make her professional debut, adding extra juice to the last match of the main LPGA season.
The LPGA season has been everything for equality. World no. 1 nelly cord Completed the racing at Open Womens of SH.BA But still won’t win. Lydia KO won in February, but has not put herself in the diploma. Nr. 2 World Jeeno Thitikul was able to win her first big career at the PGA and Evian PGA Championship but fell a little at the weekend. Charley Hull also has to cross the finish line. Minjee lee submitted a pronounced victory in PGA FriscoStark peak invaded Erin Hills And Grace Kim’s victory in Evian was the last most dramatic round of a major you will see.
But the buzzing was not what was expected to go out last year.
The historic Korda run last season gave women golf a stroke, and the summer run in the gold medal and the open title of AIG women was a suitable cap in an extraordinary season for the LPGA.
Women’s golf needs a lightning bolt, a win, as the big season approaches the entire basin – something to catch the momentum it had last season.
They are taking this week in the form of Woad, which has been opened with rounds 67, 65 and 67 to get a two -stroke lead over Sei Young Kim and Nanna Kerstz Madsen in the last round at Dundonald Links.
Woad played the first two rounds with cords. She opened the third round of Saturday with only one two-stroke lead, but the number one world shot only one two-nine 70 Saturday and lost three strokes in Woad, which posted a round of five under.
Cord made her LPGA debut a decade ago. It came with much less fanaticism than Woad, who arrives after a career preserved in Florida State, a victory in Anwa, a victory in Irish Open and a readiness in Evian.
“That was so long ago,” Korda said on Saturday about her debut. “Gosh, this is my 10th year in the tournament. I think it was in Symetra. Of course, my professional debut was not in the spotlight as it. But that it succeeds and the leadership of the event is quite special.”
Woad grinded without her game A. Her Driver, normally one of her superpowers, was not ready to avoid the first round, but she still found a way to shoot five in the opening round. Woad then used some quieter conditions during its second nine Friday, shooting a seven round under the top with 36 holes.
Woad is a rapidly growing star. She became the first LPGA player to graduate from the Leap program, deciding to return to and give up on her last year in Florida State after her ardent stretching to see her win the open Irishman and ready to baggage Evian.
“I’m sure there is a lot of pressure on her shoulders, but I hope she is surrounding herself with some good people,” Leona Maguire said. “You’ve seen it with Rose Zhang a few years ago, it also left for a very hot start. There will be a lot of new things for it a few weeks and the coming months, but I’m sure it is able to handle it.”
Zhang is the Woad player is trying to join Sunday.
Just over two years ago, Zhang, who was also an amateur star, won in her professional debut in Mizuho Americas Open, becoming the first LPGA player to win in her pro debut since Beverly Hanson in 1951.
All eyes have been in Woad this week, but the 21-year-old has been quiet now that there are no more questions about her golf future.
“I don’t think it’s very different,” Woad said on Saturday. “I feel like there is a lot of attention to lead to me trying to get my points. So this kind feels a little cheaper now that I have received my card.”
Woad will not blow you in interviews. That way, she is much like Corda, a golf saver with a track that only wants to dig her out of dirt and spend some time in front of microphones. But her game speaks herself, and her debut Stellar Pro has delivered something that women’s golf needed: More buzzing!
This week’s direct coverage was only available in the NBCSPorts app, with the “Encore” coverage at the Golf Channel at night. How the product gets more money on the eye on a more sustainable basis is an obstacle that new Commissioner Craig Kessler has to overcome. (You can get to know him more in his interview with our Claire Rogers here.)
There is no reason that the Scottish of Scottish women should not be on live television in the morning, especially when the PGA Tour is again in Minnesota.
But Woad’s chance in history has forced television people to hear and set Sunday’s last round on CNBC from 9am to 11am. This is a small, but indispensable win for women’s golf in a week where golf attention should be on them.
With the big final final, the women’s golf should get all the oxygen on Sunday, while a rising star seems to join record books with his biggest star in Korda looking to go down and shoot it, giving women Lightning Bolt that Golf Golf has asked for this season.
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