England’s Lottie Woad held her nerve to clinch a two-shot victory at the LPGA Queen City Championship in Ohio on Sunday, firing a one-under-par 69 to capture her first tour win on US soil.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old rising star from Surrey had taken a grip on the tournament with a scintillating five-under-par 65 on Saturday that gave her a three-shot lead heading into Sunday’s final round at Maketwah Country Club in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Woad<\/a> got off to a dream start, with two birdies in her opening five holes to drop to 13 under, before a double-bogey on the sixth checked her progress.<\/p>\n However, she hit back with a bogey on the next hole and then completed the back nine at level par to clinch her second LPGA Tour title after her victory at the Scottish Open last July.<\/p>\n Her closing 69 left her on 12 under for the tournament with an aggregate 268, two shots clear of South Korea’s Ryu Hae-ran<\/a>, who finished on 10 under after a three-under-par 67 final round.<\/p>\n The victory was the latest stop on what has been a meteoric rise for Woad, who this time last year was preparing to play in the US collegiate championship before breaking through with a maiden LPGA win in Scotland two months later.<\/p>\n “This one is definitely a little sweeter than the first one because I wasn’t really expecting it,” Woad said.<\/p>\n “This one I’ve seen how good everyone is out there, so it’s good to win again. I just played pretty good tee-to-green. I hit a lot greens, hit a lot of fairways. And it’s pretty windy out there, so I think that was the key obviously to having the lead.”<\/p>\n Japan’s Miyi Yamashita<\/a> finished third on nine under after running out of holes in a dazzling six-under-par 64.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old from Osaka’s round included a run of four straight birdies to finish, but it was not enough to pull her closer to Woad on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n “It’s been a while since I had a good score like this, and the wind was strong, but I was able to play with a really good feeling throughout the round,” Yamashita said.<\/p>\n China’s Yin Ruoning<\/a> was four shots off the lead on eight under after carding a four-under-par 66, one shot ahead of Amanda Doherty<\/a> of the United States and South Korea’s Ko Jin-Young<\/a>, who tied for fifth place on seven under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Lottie Woad held her nerve to clinch a two-shot victory at the LPGA Queen City Championship in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592387","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\/592387","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=592387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}