Lottie Woad will take a two-stroke lead into the ultimate spherical of the ISPS Handa Ladies’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 3, and regardless of selecting up additional photographs on the 14th and seventeenth, a bogey on the quick 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.
“That’s the aim, to shoot as low as possible and keep giving myself chances,” Woad stated. “If someone shoots lights out, fair enough. I’m excited for the opportunity. I’ve got the experience and I’ll try 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 an extended eagle putt on the 14th and acquired up-and-down for birdie on the par-five closing gap to get inside two photographs.
Woad, who gained the Irish Open earlier this month, introduced her resolution to show skilled final week after lacking out on £400,000 in prize cash having completed only a shot exterior the play-off gained by Grace Kim on the Evian Championship, the fourth girls’s main of the yr.
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