Surrey novice star Lottie Woad has gained the Mark H McCormack Medal because the main girl within the World Beginner 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 yr’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 yr for me and I’m honoured to be named alongside the earlier recipients of the medal.
“It was all the time a aim of mine to succeed in primary and develop into the world’s main girl novice golfer. It’s taken some time to get there however it’s good to see all of the exhausting work repay and obtain this milestone.”
Earlier this yr, Woad grew to become the primary European golfer to win the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner, and he or she did so in dramatic trend 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 yr gained the ANNIKA Intercollegiate..
Subsequent week she’s going to compete for Nice Britain and Eire within the Curtis Cup at Sunningdale in a bid to win the match towards the USA for the primary time since 2016.
‘THOROUGHLY DESERVING RECIPIENT’
Professor Steve Otto, Chief Know-how Officer at The R&A, mentioned, “Lottie has loved a really profitable yr wherein she has persistently carried out at a excessive stage and her outcomes, together with profitable the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner, makes her a totally deserving recipient of the ladies’s McCormack Medal.
“We wish to congratulate Lottie on this excellent achievement and sit up for seeing her golf profession go from energy to energy within the years forward.
“The record of previous McCormack Medal winners reads like a ‘Who’s Who; of right now’s high skilled expertise, underscoring the immense dedication and fervour required to realize the world’s primary novice rating,” mentioned John Bodenhamer, USGA chief championships officer.
“Lottie’s achievement is a robust testomony to her relentless effort and dedication. On behalf of everybody on the USGA, we lengthen our heartfelt congratulations for this exceptional honour.”
