{"id":688812,"date":"2026-06-06T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688812\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:41:08","slug":"lottie-woad-penalized-for-improving-stance-during-u-s-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688812\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottie Woad penalized for improving stance during U.S. Women&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Lottie Woad was penalized two strokes for improving her stance Saturday morning at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n<p>Woad, the 22-year-old Englishwoman who turned pro last summer after her junior year at Florida State, hit her approach shot into the right greenside bunker at Riviera Country Club\u2019s par-4 ninth hole, her ball plugging in the face.<\/p>\n<p>It took Woad two attempts to get out of the trap, losing her footing on the first swing. She then got up and down for bogey, though she learned two holes later that she would be docked two strokes for violating Rule 8.1a.<\/p>\n<p>Her score on the hole was changed to a double-bogey-7, which increased Woad\u2019s third-round score to 3-over 74. She\u2019ll enter Sunday at 7 over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 Lottie Woad was penalized two strokes for improving her stance Saturday morning at the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-688812","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\/688812","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=688812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}