Surrey beginner star Lottie Woad has gained the Mark H McCormack Medal because the main lady within the World Novice Golf Rating for 2024.
Farnham-based Woad, who’s the primary ever English winner of the ladies’s McCormack Medal, will obtain exemptions into subsequent 12 months’s US Girls’s Open and the AIG Girls’s Open on the again of the award.
Woad, 20, mentioned: “I’m actually comfortable to have gained the McCormack Medal. It rounds off a profitable 12 months for me and I’m honoured to be named alongside the earlier recipients of the medal.
“It was all the time a objective of mine to succeed in primary and turn into the world’s main lady beginner golfer. It’s taken some time to get there but it surely’s good to see all of the exhausting work repay and obtain this milestone.”
Earlier this 12 months, Woad grew to become the primary European golfer to win the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice, and he or she did so in dramatic style after ending birdie-birdie over the ultimate two holes to pip American Bailey Shoemaker by one shot.
She has additionally recorded three second-place finishes within the NCAA D1 Girls’s Championship, Florida State Match Up and Collegiate Invitational at GCC, whereas within the autumn of final 12 months gained the ANNIKA Intercollegiate..
Subsequent week she is going to compete for Nice Britain and Eire within the Curtis Cup at Sunningdale in a bid to win the match in opposition to the USA for the primary time since 2016.
‘THOROUGHLY DESERVING RECIPIENT’
Professor Steve Otto, Chief Expertise Officer at The R&A, mentioned, “Lottie has loved a really profitable 12 months wherein she has persistently carried out at a excessive degree and her outcomes, together with successful the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice, makes her a totally deserving recipient of the ladies’s McCormack Medal.
“We want to congratulate Lottie on this excellent achievement and look ahead to seeing her golf profession go from power to power within the years forward.
“The listing of previous McCormack Medal winners reads like a ‘Who’s Who; of in the present day’s prime skilled expertise, underscoring the immense dedication and fervour required to attain the world’s primary beginner rating,” mentioned John Bodenhamer, USGA chief championships officer.
“Lottie’s achievement is a robust testomony to her relentless effort and willpower. On behalf of everybody on the USGA, we prolong our heartfelt congratulations for this exceptional honour.”
