The former world number one amateur held a two-shot lead going down the par-five 18th and, after knocking a wedge to tap-in range, she finished in style with a birdie.<\/p>\n
“It’s a pretty good outcome,” Woad said in understated fashion. “I definitely wasn’t expecting to win but knew I was playing well and just hoping to contend.<\/p>\n
“There’s not many scoreboards out there, but I knew it was probably quite tight at one stage.<\/p>\n
“It’s great. Links golf is really fun and it went fine. My dad was here all week and my mum got the train up last night, so I was hoping I wouldn’t mess it up.”<\/p>\n
Woad, who won the Irish Open as an amateur, turned professional last week after missing out on \u00a3400,000 prize money when finishing just a shot outside the play-off won by Grace Kim at the Evian Championship – the women’s fourth major of the year.<\/p>\n
She now takes home \u00a3220,000 in prize money for winning on Scotland’s west coast and heads to Royal Porthcawl for next week’s Women’s Open among the favourites.<\/p>\n
“Even if I hadn’t won this week, I would still be trying to win the Open next week,” added Woad. “It’s still a learning curve getting used to the attention.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former world number one amateur held a two-shot lead going down the par-five 18th and, after knocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-27622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}