{"id":13084,"date":"2025-07-16T02:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13084\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:11:03","slug":"top-amateur-lottie-woad-joins-pro-ranks-in-womens-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13084\/","title":{"rendered":"Top amateur Lottie Woad joins pro ranks in women’s golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 15, 2025, 02:28 PM ET<\/p>\n

LONDON — Top-ranked amateur Lottie Woad<\/a> announced Tuesday she will turn professional, two days after nearly winning a major title.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Englishwoman followed her victory by six shots at the Women’s Irish Open on the Ladies European Tour on July 6 by finishing in third place — just one stroke off the pace — at the Evian Championship<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

She didn’t win any prize money at either tournament because she was amateur.<\/p>\n

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However, her good finish at the Evian secured enough points to seal LPGA Tour membership through its Elite Amateur Pathway. Woad, who was a five-time First-Team All-American at Florida State, will be leaving the school with one year left.<\/p>\n

“I am very excited to announce that I have decided to turn professional,” she wrote on social media. “I’m delighted to have secured a[n] LPGA card through the LEAP.<\/p>\n

“I’m also happy to accept membership of the Ladies European Tour for 2026. Thank you to everyone who has helped me get to this position.”<\/p>\n

Woad is set to make her first start as a pro at the Women’s Scottish Open next week.<\/p>\n

The British Women’s Open, the final major of the year, is at Royal Porthcawl starting July 30.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 15, 2025, 02:28 PM ET LONDON — Top-ranked amateur Lottie Woad announced Tuesday she will turn professional,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}