{"id":442472,"date":"2026-01-30T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:00:08","slug":"tournament-of-champions-lottie-woad-one-shot-off-lead-after-opening-round-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442472\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament of Champions: Lottie Woad one shot off lead after opening round in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

England’s Lottie Woad is one shot behind leader Nasa Hataoka after the first round of the Tournament of Champions in Florida. <\/p>\n

Woad, 22, who only turned professional last summer and was invited to play at the opening LPGA tournament of the season in Orlando, is one of four players on five under par. <\/p>\n

Japan’s Hataoka claimed seven birdies for a round of 66 to lead on six under from Woad, Thai pair Chanettee Wannasaen and Atthaya Thitikul and Sweden’s Linn Grant. <\/p>\n

Woad had the lead thanks to six birdies through 14 holes but made her only bogey of the day at the 18th.<\/p>\n

She said the Lake Nona course “definitely challenges you”, adding: “The practice days were pretty cold… so it played a little bit easier today.”<\/p>\n

Woad was an amateur when she won her first Ladies European Tour title in dominant fashion at the Women’s Irish Open <\/a>in July. <\/p>\n

She then then delivered a statement victory on her professional debut three weeks later when she secured her second tour win at the Women’s Scottish Open. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Lottie Woad is one shot behind leader Nasa Hataoka after the first round of the Tournament of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-442472","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\/442472","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=442472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}