Lottie Woad’s legend continued to grow Sunday at the Carton House Golf Club in Kildare, Ireland.
The amateur world already has a host of ratings under its belt, including the amateur honors of the 2024 Augusta and Low Amah in the AIG Women Open and US Open Women. She has won five times in Florida State and has just finished a new season in which she did not end worse than the third to a T-8 in the NCAA individual championship.
On Sunday, Woad left a strong pros field in European Tour Ladies of Irish Irish KPMG Irish Open Golf ChampionshipFilming a Sunday with four under 69 to finish the tournament in 21 Under, six shots in front of the Madeline Sagstrom contestant.
“It means a lot to win the victory,” Woad said. “Of course, I had a great supremacy coming today, but I still had to really focus as I was being followed by some really good players. I’m happy to do it. It is perfect. I feel like I am playing well, and I hope to continue it in Evian next week.”
The field also included Pros lpga Charley Hull, who ended the fourth, Leona Maguire and Georgia Hall.
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With the victory, Woad becomes the first amateur to win a permitted event since Jana Melichova won the lady of Tipport Czech Tipport 2022. Lydia won a allowed event in 2013 when she raised the trophy in New Zealand of Open as 15-year-old.
On Sunday, Woad started the seventh stroke ahead of Sagstrom. The amateur opened with birds at no. 2 and no. 4 before throwing a blow to the fifth. But Woad Bird Eight and 13th. A noise in 15, only its third of the week, was quickly wiped out of the back-back birds at 16 and 17 to place the touches of finishing in a dominant victory that was just the last sign of what will come while Woad approaches the LPGA.
While the 21-year-old did not win any dance point for her victory in Ireland, she is all, but guaranteed to secure the remaining two points she needs to win her LPGA Tour card until August. Woad decreases to 18 points and will have an opportunity to earn points in the next week’s Amundi Evian championship and AIG Women Open. The players get a jumping point for a cut made on a major and two for a high-end-25 finish. If Woad wins no point in the last two diplomas of the year, it will win four when winning the McCormack medal as the world’s highest amateur in August.
Despite letting it win, Woad has said it will remain an amateur until it has 20 points under its belt. Once she has the 20 points needed to secure her card, she can either get membership for this season and another and give up her old season in Florida State, or she can postpone her membership for a year and join the LPGA Tour next season.
“No, I’m not tempted to go back to,” Woad said on Sunday. “I’m still trying to get my last two points for LPGA. I’m trying to get them and then we’ll see what happens after that.”
What happens after that is that Lottie Woad, high -ranking amateur and flowering superstar, will reach a stage that it seems destined to bloom, and all signs point to her legend just by continuing to grow after doing.
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