Lottie Woad will take a two-stroke lead into the ultimate spherical of the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Hyperlinks as she seeks to clinch her maiden skilled win on debut.
The 21-year-old former world No 1 newbie from Surrey maintained her cushion on the prime of the leaderboard after a third-round five-under 67.
A fourth birdie in her first 10 holes briefly prolonged the benefit to a few, and regardless of choosing up additional photographs on the 14th and seventeenth, a bogey on the brief fifteenth – solely her second in 54 holes – left her 17 underneath.
That was two higher than Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen and South Korean Sei Younger Kim.
England’s Lottie Woad leads the Scottish Open by two photographs after one other spectacular spherical on her professional debut
“That is the purpose, to shoot as little as potential and hold giving myself possibilities,” Woad mentioned. “If somebody shoots lights out, honest sufficient. I am excited for the chance. I’ve acquired the expertise and I am going to attempt to use that.”
World No 1 Nelly Korda is 5 photographs adrift on 12 underneath after a bogey-free 70, her highest spherical of the week.
Madsen, who caught Woad early with an eagle on the par-five third gap, fell behind after Woad’s birdie streak. However the Dane rallied with three straight birdies and a few par saves for a 67.
She was two photographs behind, together with Kim, who made a protracted eagle putt on the 14th and acquired up-and-down for birdie on the par-five closing gap to get inside two photographs.
Highlights of Woad’s KPMG Girls’s Irish Open victory at Carton Home, Kildare
Woad, who gained the Irish Open earlier this month, introduced her determination to show skilled final week after lacking out on £400,000 in prize cash having completed only a shot outdoors the play-off gained by Grace Kim on the Evian Championship, the fourth girls’s main of the yr.
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