Lottie Woad Sends Powerful Five-Word Message Ahead Of Women’s Open

Lottie Woad has been living on cloud nine so far this July, with two wins and a top-five finish in as many professional events. However, such successes haven’t caused her to lose focus, and she plans to continue building on her momentum.

In fact, minutes after winning the Women’s Scottish Open in her professional debut, Woad stated that she’ll be “trying to win the Open” next week at Royal Porthcawl.

The message is nothing but a powerful warning to all her colleagues heading to Wales to compete in the AIG Women’s Open. After what she has shown in recent weeks, the Englishwoman will be one of the favorites to win the final major title of the season, even though she has just turned professional.

“Even if I hadn’t won this week, I would still be trying to win the Open next week,” Woad told BBC after winning at Dundonald Links. “It’s still a learning curve getting used to the attention.”

Woad won the Women’s Irish Open on the Ladies European Tour in early July, still playing as an amateur, and then tied for third at the Amundi Evian Championship. Two weeks later, she won her first professional tournament at Dundonald Links.

“It (winning) is a pretty good outcome, I guess!” she said, according to Sky Sports. “I definitely wasn’t expecting to win my first event, but knew I was playing well. I was just hoping to contend and played really solid today. It was pretty nice in the end, being able to lay up on the par five.”

“This is my first time playing links golf since the AIG Women’s Open last year. I wasn’t exactly sure how it would go but it went fine!”

The lack of links course play hasn’t been a problem for Woad. Not only did she just win at Dundonald, but a year ago she finished tied for 10th in the Women’s Open, played on the iconic Old Course at St. Andrews.

That was the first of two top-10 finishes she has earned in seven starts at major championships, and the first of her three Low Amateur awards at events at that level. This year she added the US Women’s Open (T31) and the Amundi Evian Championship (T3).

To date, only one female player has won a major championship in her first year as a professional. Canadian Sandra Post began her pro career in 1968, winning the Women’s PGA Championship that year.

Catherine Lacoste deserves special mention. A year before Post’s feat, she became the first (and so far only) female amateur to win a major championship, taking the US Women’s Open title.

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