Lottie Woad, making her first start as a professional, shot 5-under 67 to sit one off the lead after the opening round of the ISPS Handa Women\u2019s Scottish Open.<\/p>\n
Woad, Nuria Iturrioz, Rio Takeda, Leona Maguire and Arpichaya Yubol are all tied for second, chasing England\u2019s Charlotte Laffar.<\/p>\n
Laffar returned to the Ladies European Tour in May after a four-year hiatus during which she gave birth to two sons. The LET co-sanctions the Women\u2019s Scottish Open.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Englishwoman teed off late Thursday and started with a bogey. She then notched eight birdies to just one bogey the rest of the way at Dundonald Links.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got no pressure at all,\u201d said Laffar, who has her husband as her caddie. \u201cGolf is a lot of people\u2019s lives out here, but my children are my life. So, this has become more of a working hobby, I suppose you could say. I\u2019ve just got to enjoy every moment. I don\u2019t know how long I\u2019m going to do it for. I will see how it goes. I\u2019ve got to show the kids how I used to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woad nearly won her final event as the world\u2019s top-ranked amateur, tying for third two weeks ago at the Amundi Evian Championship, an LPGA major. Having earned tour status through its LEAP program for amateur standouts, Woad accepted membership and promptly made six birdies and one bogey in her debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll definitely take it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was some good, some bad. Overall, pretty fair.\u201d<\/p>\n
World No. 1 Nelly Korda is two shots off the pace after a 4-under 68. Korda is seeking her first victory of the year.<\/p>\n
The LPGA\u2019s fifth and final major of the season is next week in Wales at the AIG Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lottie Woad, making her first start as a professional, shot 5-under 67 to sit one off the lead…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-90261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114911603959446106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}