CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Lottie Woad held off Haeran Ryu on a gusty Sunday afternoon at Maketewah Country Club in the Kroger Queen City Championship.<\/p>\n
Three strokes ahead of playing partner Amanda Doherty and four ahead of Ryu entering the round, Woad closed with a 1-under 69 for a two-stroke victory. The 22-year-old English player finished at 12-under 268. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just played pretty good tee-to-green,\u201d Woad said. \u201cI hit a lot greens, hit a lot of fairways. And it\u2019s pretty windy out there, so I think that was the key, obviously, to having the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wind was a big challenge on the first-year venue that features par-3 closing holes on each nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was definitely up there with the strongest of the days and was kind of flickering around a bit,\u201d Woad said. \u201cIt was a cross-wind most holes, but kind of flipped between into and down. So, trying to judge the yardages into some smaller greens was definitely tricky.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryu had a double bogey on the par-4 13th in a 67. She played the front nine in 5-under 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazing front nine. I\u2019m so happy,\u201d Ryu said. \u201cBut I have a little mistake on the back nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nelly Korda shot a 67 to tie for eighth at 5 under after winning in her previous two starts. She began the day nine strokes back after a third-round 72.<\/p>\n
Woad won for the second time on the LPGA Tour, following a victory last year in the Women\u2019s Scottish Open in her professional debut. She also won the European tour\u2019s Irish Open last summer as an amateur. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis one is definitely, I think, is a little sweeter than the first one because I wasn\u2019t really expecting that,\u201d Woad said. \u201cThis one, I\u2019ve seen how good everyone is out there, so it\u2019s good to win again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woad made a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 17th to open a two-stroke lead, with Ryu parring the par-3 18th soon after in the group ahead to post at 10 under.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot an easy putt from where I was above the hole with a lot of break, and had a little pace going in, so pretty glad I hit the hole,\u201d Woad said. \u201cGave me a two-shot cushion on a par 3, so pretty happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woad overcame a double bogey on the par-4 sixth. The former Florida State star birdied the seventh, parred the next five and dropped a stroke on the par-4 13th. After three more pars, she got the long birdie try to fall on 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cI generally played pretty well,\u201d Woad said. \u201cObviously, double, not really sure what happened there. Just kind of happened pretty quickly there. The rest I hit a lot of fairways, greens pretty stress-free.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miyu Yamashita has third at 9 under after a 64. Ruoning Yin (66) was 8 under, and Doherty (71) and Jin Young Ko (65) were 7 under. Jeeno Thitikul, the winner last week in New Jersey, was another shot back after a 69.<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Lottie Woad held off Haeran Ryu on a gusty Sunday afternoon at Maketewah Country Club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-677247","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\/677247","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=677247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}