Lottie Woad started her professional career in spectacular fashion with a three-stroke victory at the 2025 ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open.
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The English star made her professional debut this week, after securing her LPGA Tour card following a T3 finish at the Amundi Evian Championship.
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Woad, who won the 2025 KPMG Women’s Irish Open, went into the final day with a two-shot lead having been top of the leaderboard at the 36-hole and 54-hole marks.
The 21-year-old started strong with back-to-back birdies on the second and third holes before nine pars on the trot, but Woad then rolled in birdies on 13 and 14.
A third bogey of the week happened on 16 for the former world number one amateur, but she finished in style with a birdie on 18 to win with a score of 21-under-par.
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“It’s quite hard to do that [win on professional debut], but it’s very special to win in my first LPGA event,” said Woad. “Everyone was chasing me today, and I managed to maintain the lead and played really nicely down the stretch and hit a lot of good shots, which is nice.
“It’s a pretty good outcome, I definitely wasn’t expecting to win my first event, but I knew I was playing well, and I was hoping to contend. I played really solidly today and it was pretty nice in the end, as I could lay-up on the par-5 18th hole. I hit an 80-yard lay-up, so I felt confident coming down there and it’s always nice to finish with a two-footer for birdie.
“There weren’t that many scoreboards out there, so I didn’t know anyone had got level, but I knew it was probably quite tight because I was only a couple under-par at the turn. When I had the two birdies early on the back nine, I knew that I might have a lead.”
Woad becomes the first player to win on their professional debut on the LET since Singapore’s Shannon Tan at the 2024 Magical Kenya Ladies Open and the first on the LPGA Tour since Rose Zhang at the 2023 Mizuho Americas Open.
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She also became the first English winner of the ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open since Trish Johnson back in 2014.
The two-time LET winner continued: “It’s great to win here. Links golf is really fun, I don’t get to play it too often, it’s my first time since the AIG Women’s Open last year, so I wasn’t sure how it would go.
“My dad was here all week, and my mum got the train up last night, so I was hoping that I wouldn’t mess it up. Even if I hadn’t won this week, I’d still be trying to win next week and just trying to be up there is all you can ask for going into the final day.
“The course is amazing, it was in great condition, and it played differently every day with the different wind directions. It was a nice challenge and everyone here has been so kind.”
Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim finished in outright second place on 18-under-par after a final round of 68 (-4) at Dundonald Links.
The 2025 Aramco Korea Championship winner began the day with a birdie on the first before rolling in three birdies in a row on the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and she dropped a shot on the eighth.
However, back-to-back birdies on 10 and 11 put her level with England’s Woad on 19-under-par and another birdie on 14 drew her level with the Englishwoman once again, but bogeys on 15 and 16 put an end to her title challenge.
Spain’s Julia Lopez Ramirez equalled the round of the week with a 65 (-7) on the final day to finish in a tie for third place alongside Korea’s Sei Young Kim on 14-under-par.
