{"id":25272,"date":"2025-07-26T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25272\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:26:11","slug":"lottie-woad-takes-two-shot-lead-at-womens-scottish-open-on-professional-debut-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25272\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottie Woad takes two-shot lead at Women&#8217;s Scottish Open on professional debut | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lottie Woad continued to impress on her professional debut as a second-round 65 gave her a two-shot lead in the Women&#8217;s Scottish Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old former world No 1 amateur from Surrey moved from joint-second to top of the leaderboard after again outscoring playing partner and world No 1 Nelly Korda with a bogey-free round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy with that, bogey-free is always nice,&#8221; said Woad. &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to continue the momentum. I&#8217;m trying to play well, I&#8217;ve got confidence, so I will keep on doing that.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played in seven majors now, so I&#8217;ve had all that experience and then also the LET event too. It wasn&#8217;t really new; I knew how to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to stick to the plan I&#8217;ve had all week, and the same strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, people will be chasing me, but I&#8217;m just not going to change anything. I&#8217;m going to try and do what I did in Ireland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Starting at the 10th, it took Woad five holes to make her first birdie, adding two more before making a run of four in seven holes from the third.<\/p>\n<p>That took her to 12 under, with just one bogey in 36 holes, with Korda and Dane Nanna Koerstz Madsen two behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sky-sports-lottie-woad-golf_6965645.jpg\" alt=\"Lottie Woad has announced her move to turn pro.\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              England amateur star Lottie Woad elected to turn professional and accepted LPGA Tour membership<\/p>\n<p>Woad, who won the Irish Open earlier this month, announced her decision to turn professional last week after missing out on \u00a3400,000 in prize money having finished just a shot outside the play-off won by Grace Kim at the Evian Championship, the fourth women&#8217;s major of the year.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Charlotte Laffer missed the cut on plus four having entered Friday as the overnight leader, shooting five bogeys and three double bogeys amid a round of 82.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Leona Maguire is tied for eighth on six-under, while Georgia Hall sits down in tied-12th on four-under.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s major season concludes at the AIG Women&#8217;s Open from July 31-August 3 live on Sky Sports Golf, with Lydia Ko returning as defending champion at Royal Porthcawl. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/plans\/new\/sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the majors and more with no contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/golfnow-logo.png\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-image\" alt=\"Golf Now logo.\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\">Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK &amp; Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lottie Woad continued to impress on her professional debut as a second-round 65 gave her a two-shot lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-25272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}