ANWA 2024 champ Lottie Woad picking LPGA major over ACC Championship

Lottie Woad confronted a tricky resolution within the aftermath of her Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner. The victory comes with particular invites to 4 main championships, together with subsequent week’s Chevron Championship, which overlaps the ACC Championship.

Woad, a 20-year-old sophomore at Florida State, has opted to make her main championship debut on the Chevron April 18-21 at The Membership at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas, a Florida State official has confirmed. The Englishwoman delivered a end for the ages on Saturday within the last spherical at Augusta Nationwide, making birdie on three of the final 4 holes to beat USC’s Bailey Shoemaker by one stroke.

“If been advised earlier than this week that I’d be two again with 4 to play, I might have been like, yeah, good, that sounds nice,” mentioned Woad. “To be within the combine on the again 9 at Augusta is one thing that everybody desires about.”

Woad, ranked No. 4 within the World Beginner Golf Rating, hasn’t completed outdoors the highest 8 in faculty golf this season, with co-medalist honors on the Annika Intercollegiate.

World No. 1 Nelly Korda headlines the sphere at Chevron after successful her fourth consecutive begins on Sunday on the T-Cell Match Play. Korda is the primary American to win 4 consecutive begins on the LPGA Tour since Nancy Lopez, who gained 5 consecutive begins in 1978.

Woad acquired a heat welcome when she returned to Tallahassee. Try the photographs from her welcome reception: