Lottie Woad’s victory has everyone talking. Has Lydia ko willing to ask questions

Lottie Woad’s Profit was the golf world conversation last weekend. The highest amateur returned to the pros and won the scottal Handa of Open women from three shots to join Beverly Hanson and Rose Zhang as the only players who won in their Pro debut.

Woad’s victory, along with its T3 at the Amundi Evian Championship and wins at KPMG Women Irish Open as an amateur, has impressed everyone by Nellly Korda to Justin Rose. 21-year-old Woad’s performance should be a help for women’s golf as it seems to capture the momentum it had last year during the historic stretch of Korda and Whirlwind Lydia KO In the LPGA fame hall.

But this week has to do with the present. For what is possible.

This week, Woad arrives at AIG Women Open at Royal Porthcawl, the last championship of the year, as a betting favorite, with Corda, Jeeno Thituful, defending Lydia KO and others chasing the 21-year-old phenomenon on the chance sheet.

The center of attention was in Woad last week at Dundonald Links. It will be even brighter this week in Wales. Woad’s show has all buzzing. But KO, who will play the first two rounds at Royal Parthcawl with Woad and Lilia Vu, plans to use her time with the next star to improve her game. Ko has not spent any time about Woad, but she has seen her swinging, and that’s enough to know that there are things to learn from young Englishmen. After all, in Golf, age is really just a number.

“It’s going to be my first time playing with lottie, so I’m excited,” KO said on Tuesday at Royal Porthcawl. “She is getting in with a tone of momentum, and I think there will be a lot of people who will go out and watch it. It will be really interesting to me to see and see the things I can learn from her and why she is playing well. I don’t think the rankings you are-you are a higher rank player doesn’t mean there is something I can’t learn from someone else.

“She is definitely playing great golf. I’ve seen her swinging, and my coach has sent me a video of her swing, because there are aspects I’m going for what she has. Yes, it will be really interesting to be inside the ropes, choosing a little her brain.”

that know the pressure that faces more than most.

Of course, KO was much younger than Woad now when she went under the microscope.

The first LPGA victory came at the age of 15, when she won the CN 2012 Canadian Open. She had already won a European ladies tourist event on the 14th. All these years later she was marched in the LPGA fame hall.

Woad is 21 and has spent three years playing at Florida State University. Her experience will be different from KO. Her time spent in college has already given her the tools needed to succeed in the pot with professional pressure immediately.

“I think it’s different in ways because lottie is older than when I first came to the tour,” KO said. “She played for three years of collegial golf. She has been in many of those tougher moments. Of course, it’s different from being an amateur and playing collegial golf to be a professional, but I think she has been there and did well in those pressure conditions, no matter what kind of environment was inside. So I think there is little more experience than people.

“But when I have seen the coverage or how it composes itself, it does not seem to rush into things or it becomes very exciting. I’m sure it will help it with that transition as well.”

Woad seems to be treating the transition easily to this point.

During her last three professional beginnings, she is 55 years old under an average of 67.4. Its results? Win, T3, Win.

This week will be different. Woad has competed in diplomas before, but never as a betting favorite. Still, she has had to deal with the great expectations for the last 15 months, since her impressive victory in the Augusta 2024 national women’s amateur. She informed herself there on the sacred bases of golf and the anticipation of her arrival on the LPGA scene has been slowly built since. She has treated her all perfectly, using blinders to block the noise and adhere to her process.

For him, things have not changed. She is simply playing Golf and seeks to beat the best in the world in a scene that suits her talent.

“I mean, there is always pressure always, but I don’t think there is more than there were,” Woad said on Tuesday. “As of my view, before any of the last few weeks, one kind was still wanting to fight there, and that is still the goal.”

On Thursday, she will begin her walk around the famous links east of Swansea and west of Cardiff. She will answer the questions from KO and probably ask some, too. And then she will go trying to add a big championship to her new growing resume, relying on a readiness and process she likes.

Ko won her first first in 18 years. Maybe everyone has something to learn from the other.