Irvine, Scotland – Lottie Waard scored 4 birdies on six holes stretches across the flip, posting a 5-under 67 on Saturday, sustaining a two-shot lead on the ladies’s Scotland open with a victory in his skilled debut.
Woad has management over the sport on Dundonald Hyperlinks, so he went to 33 consecutive holes with out bogeys till he dropped his shot on the fifteenth.
Her lead was a one shot, however the 21-year-old from England responded with a brief wedge that performed completely on the seventeenth, leaving her with an 8-foot birdie putt that she transformed. The ultimate par made her 17 beneath 199.
Danish’s Nanna Korsz Madsen caught Oud early on the par-5 third gap, and was delayed after Wooden’s birdie streak. Nonetheless, Dane got here along with three straight birdies and some par saves for 67.
She made the 14th longest eagle putt in two photographs together with Say Younger Kim (66), reaching two photographs for a birdie on the par-5 closing gap.
Nelly Korda performed bogey-free, however the People managed two birdies on one other comparatively delicate day by Scottish requirements. Her 70 left 5 photographs behind Woad, who had already had a golden summer season in Europe.
Woad, who gained the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice in 2024 and rose to primary within the ladies’s novice rankings that yr, gained the Girls’s Open within the Girls’s Europe Tour three weeks in the past.
She then missed the playoffs on one shot on the Evian Championship. Nonetheless, her tie, third within the LPGA main, gained her a tour card, and he or she determined to skip her fourth grade at Florida and Flip Professional. Now she has an opportunity to win on her debut.
“That is what we intention to maintain taking pictures as little as doable and giving us alternatives,” Woad mentioned. “If somebody shoots the sunshine, it is truthful sufficient. I am excited concerning the alternative. I’ve expertise and I will attempt to use it.”
Kim has 12 titles on the LPGA Tour, together with the 2020 Girls’s PGA Championship at Aroni Mink, however she has appeared for 5 years since her final victory. She shall be becoming a member of the ultimate group on Sunday with Woad and Madsen.
Korda, however, has many grounds to make up for it if he needs to finish the unbelievable drought. She gained the LPGA seven occasions final season, however has but to win this yr.
“I in all probability wasn’t hitting it that was pretty much as good as the primary two days,” Korda mentioned. “I made some actually good par saves and did not actually capitalize a few of my good photographs. Nevertheless it’s golf. That is nice. I nonetheless have tomorrow.”
Woad tries to match Rose Zhang by successful the LPGA Tour along with his skilled debut. Chang did it at Liberty Nationwide on the Mizuho America Open two years in the past.
The Girls’s Scotland Open is collectively authorised by the LPGA and LET.
