{"id":41187,"date":"2025-07-27T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41187\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:03:11","slug":"former-top-amateur-lottie-woad-wins-womens-scottish-open-in-professional-debut-on-lpga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41187\/","title":{"rendered":"Former top amateur Lottie Woad wins Women&#8217;s Scottish Open in professional debut on LPGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"lottie-woad.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lottie-woad.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Lottie Woad announced her arrival on the LPGA Tour in incredible fashion this weekend at Dundonald Links. Shooting a final-round 68 to finish 21 under at the 2025 Women&#8217;s Scottish Open, Load claimed a decisive victory in her professional debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woad led the tournament wire-to-wire, taking a share of the first-round lead with a 67 on Thursday before jumping into solo first with a 65 on Friday. Though she faced some pressure Sunday from Hyo Joo Kim, who joined her in a tie atop the leaderboard after making six birdies in her first 11 holes, Woad was able to produce a pair of birdies on Nos. 13 and 14 to push back in front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim reached 20 under, one back, after a birdie of her own on No. 14, but a pair of bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes pushed her two back of Woad&#8217;s lead. With a two-shot advantage on the 18th, Woad wrapped up her first professional win in style by throwing a dart at the pin to set up a closing birdie, earning a three-stroke victory over Kim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woad missed out on a playoff at the Evian Championship by one shot in her final start as an amateur, immediately following that up with a win in her first start as a pro in Scotland. The former Florida State star and No. 1 amateur in the world was expected to be competitive early in her LPGA career, but she exceeded those expectations by beating a strong field in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Woad is the first player to win in her LPGA Tour debut since Rose Zhang in 2023, and she will collect a $300,000 winner&#8217;s check for her efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Lottie Woad announced her arrival on the LPGA Tour in incredible fashion this weekend at Dundonald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-41187","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\/41187","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=41187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}