{"id":260882,"date":"2026-01-31T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:12:11","slug":"tournament-of-champions-lydia-ko-and-lottie-woad-share-lead-at-lpga-season-opener-after-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260882\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament of Champions: Lydia Ko and Lottie Woad share lead at LPGA season opener after round two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI don\u2019t know what I was expecting, but I saw a lot of good and I think I just kind of carried on that momentum to today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a good position leading up to some tough golf ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LydiaLydia Ko and Lottie Woad (pictured) are on eight-under, leading by one shot from Amy Yang and Nasa Hataoka. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Rising English star Woad, meanwhile, who only turned professional last year after claiming a third place finish at the Evian Championship as an amateur, drained four birdies with only one bogey in her three-under-par 69.<\/p>\n

Woad though was frustrated at her inability to shoot a lower score after missing a series of makeable birdie putts.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad a lot of eight-footers for birdie and just didn\u2019t make them, which was really annoying,\u201d the 22-year-old said.<\/p>\n

Ko and Woad lead by one shot from South Korea\u2019s Amy Yang and Japan\u2019s Nasa Hataoka.<\/p>\n

Hataoka had lit up the course with a six-under-par opening round but had to settle for a 71 on day two in a mixed outing that included three birdies and two bogeys.<\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s Ingrid Lindblad and South Korean duo Hwang You-min and Kim A-lim are a further shot back on six under.<\/p>\n

Thailand\u2019s world No 1 Jeeno Thitikul is three off the lead on five under alongside Nelly Korda and another Thai, Chanettee Wannasaen.<\/p>\n

-Agence-France Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t know what I was expecting, but I saw a lot of good and I think I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,95,1975,31100,26663,149708,41306,108496,149704,7240,149705,149707,84742,111,139,69,1118,139155,20248,18833,6926,2122,213,5433,16559,1237,149706],"class_list":["post-260882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-and","tag-at","tag-champions","tag-fired","tag-fiveunderpar","tag-grab","tag-halfway","tag-ko","tag-lead","tag-lottie","tag-lpga","tag-lydia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-oneshot","tag-opener","tag-round","tag-season","tag-share","tag-sports","tag-stage","tag-tournament","tag-two","tag-woad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}