Surrey newbie 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 yr’s US Ladies’s Open and the AIG Ladies’s Open on the again of the award.
Woad, 20, mentioned: “I’m actually completely happy 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 at all times a purpose of mine to achieve primary and change into the world’s main lady newbie golfer. It’s taken some time to get there but it surely’s good to see all of the laborious work repay and obtain this milestone.”
Earlier this yr, Woad grew to become the primary European golfer to win the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice, 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 Ladies’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 Expertise Officer at The R&A, mentioned, “Lottie has loved a really profitable yr wherein she has persistently carried out at a excessive degree and her outcomes, together with profitable the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice, makes her a completely deserving recipient of the ladies’s McCormack Medal.
“We want to congratulate Lottie on this excellent achievement and sit up for seeing her golf profession go from power to power within the years forward.
“The checklist of previous McCormack Medal winners reads like a ‘Who’s Who; of at present’s high skilled expertise, underscoring the immense dedication and keenness required to realize the world’s primary newbie rating,” mentioned John Bodenhamer, USGA chief championships officer.
“Lottie’s achievement is a strong testomony to her relentless effort and willpower. On behalf of everybody on the USGA, we lengthen our heartfelt congratulations for this outstanding honour.”
