{"id":38491,"date":"2025-08-01T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38491\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:28:07","slug":"lottie-woads-second-round-charge-at-womens-open-undone-by-triple-bogey-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38491\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottie Woad\u2019s second-round charge at Women\u2019s Open undone by triple bogey | Women’s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seaside golf can meddle with the most patient of characters. Lottie Woad had played herself firmly into the second-round mix at this Women\u2019s Open at five under par, but the 16th at Royal Porthcawl was to bite back at English golf\u2019s golden girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Woad\u2019s second shot found trouble \u2013 it took Lydia Ko, one of Woad\u2019s playing partners, to find the ball \u2013 and her third swing barely caused any movement whatsoever. Woad called for a referee, plus a second opinion, in her belief that her ball was now embedded and worthy of free relief. With the claims refused, she had to declare the ball unplayable. This grisly affair eventually culminated in a triple-bogey seven and a round of 70 which for so long had looked like further demonstrating Woad\u2019s rapid ascent to the summit of her sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot more good in it than bad,\u201d said Woad. \u201cI played really well for 17 holes, just that one hole cost me a bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s probably the toughest hole on the course. The tee shot is hard to hit the fairway and then you\u2019ve got three wood into a very strong wind. Anything that\u2019s missing the target is going to be exaggerated. So I pushed it and got a pretty unlucky lie. It wasn\u2019t too thick around there apart from where I was. So I couldn\u2019t really do much with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woad admitted she was disappointed that officialdom had declared that her ball was not embedded. \u201cI just had to forget about it as quickly as possible,\u201d she added. Woad missed from four feet for a birdie at the last, meaning she remains nine adrift of the lead. By her own admission, and even owing for the vagaries of links, that may already be too far.<\/p>\n

The broader problem for Woad and all others is that Miyu Yamashita has taken quite a grip on this tournament. The Japanese player\u2019s 65 launched her to 11 under, meaning a three-shot lead over her compatriot Rio Takeda. Yamashita\u2019s bogey-free round included a stunning back nine of 32.<\/p>\n

Miyu Yamashita signs autographs following her second round of 65. Photograph: Oisin Keniry\/R&A\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Close inspection of Yamashita\u2019s form indicates her prominence in Wales should be no real surprise. While the terrain might be somewhat different from what the 23-year-old is used to, jousting at the summit of leaderboards appears second nature. She has won 13 times on the Japan Tour and had 43 top-three finishes since April 2021. In this, her rookie year on the LPGA Tour, she has recorded 10 top-20 finishes from 16 starts. Yamashita shares her name with a Japanese wrestler, which must lead to some interesting moments when observers are punching letters into Google. The golfing Yamashita missed the cut in the Women\u2019s Open last year. She appears on a mission to make up for that.<\/p>\n

Lindy Duncan\u2019s 70 moved her to four under, where she has Pajaree Anannarukarn and Chiara Tamburlini for company. Madelene Sagstr\u00f6m moved into touching distance of the group behind Yamashita, the Swede\u2019s 69 meaning a three-under total at the 36-hole point.<\/p>\n

At two under, Porthcawl member Darcey Harry comfortably survived for the weekend. \u201cI keep forgetting that this is actually my home course and I\u2019ve played it before,\u201d she said. \u201cI have to keep reminding myself I know the course, so I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m stressing. I just have to try to enjoy the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think the first two days are usually the most nerve-racking because you want to make the cut. Anything can happen on this course. You can get in trouble, big trouble any time. I definitely think today was quite a stressful day for everyone because the cut\u2019s on the line. I can reset for tomorrow.\u201d The world No 1, Nelly Korda, like Woad and Harry, is at minus two.<\/p>\n

There was a golden moment for Steph Kyriacou, who made a hole in one with her gap wedge at the 8th. \u201cI didn\u2019t see it go in, which sucked, but the crowd went nuts,\u201d said the Australian. \u201cIt didn\u2019t damage the hole, which was surprising, so it was quite clean. My first official hole in one with no asterisk. Pretty excited. I had a hole in one in a practice round before. There were witnesses, first ball, but it\u2019s not really the real deal, is it? There\u2019s footage, people, tournament, major, it counts. I think everyone on my team is going to use it as an excuse to get drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lilia Vu was among those to crash out of this major at the halfway point. Carlota Ciganda, Jennifer Kupcho and Sophia Popov, who won this championship five years ago, did likewise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seaside golf can meddle with the most patient of characters. Lottie Woad had played herself firmly into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-38491","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\/38491","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=38491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}