{"id":399668,"date":"2026-01-31T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399668\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:12:10","slug":"tournament-of-champions-lottie-woad-shares-lead-with-lydia-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399668\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament of Champions: Lottie Woad shares lead with Lydia Ko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Lottie Woad hit a three-under-par 69 on day two of the Tournament of Champions to share the lead with three-time major winner Lydia Ko. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old, who only turned professional last year and was invited to play at the season-opening LPGA tournament in Orlando, built on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c74vyrx4jnno\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening round of 67<\/a> to jointly lead with New Zealander Ko on eight under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olympic Champion Ko, 28, added a 67 on Friday to Thursday&#8217;s 69 round the Lake Nona course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woad, who hit four birdies and one bogey, said: &#8220;I looked at the leaderboard quite a lot because I was getting annoyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The pins were probably a little trickier, so [there] weren&#8217;t as many birdies as [Thursday], so I just had to keep giving myself chances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ko, meanwhile, is bogey-free through 36 holes but the 2024 Women&#8217;s Open champion said she would never call the Florida course &#8220;easy&#8221;, adding: &#8220;I think this golf course changes a lot depending on how the conditions are.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Lottie Woad hit a three-under-par 69 on day two of the Tournament of Champions to share the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399668","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=399668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}