Who is Lottie Woad? Meet the amateur golf superstar

Lottie Woad etched her name into the annals of history at Augusta National in April by winning the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

But the 20-year-old amateur sensation has been setting leaderboads alight for years so let’s get to know a bit more about the young English star…

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Hailing from Farnham, a market town in Surrey, Woad is a sophomore at Florida State University. So far this season, Woad has made six top-eight finishes.

She certainly knows how to put away golf tournaments.

Woad won the Annika Intercollegiate of last Autumn and she also came second at the Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club and the Florida State Match Up.

Woad won the Florida State Match Up in 2023 and all in all, she has four wins to her name on her amateur record.

She earned First Team All-America honours as a freshman last year, while also representing England in the Palmer Cup in Pennsylvania and the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship in Abu Dhabi.

In 2022, Woad won the R&A Girls’ Amateur at Carnoustie and joined another winners list of illustrious names including Anna Nordqvist, Suzann Pettersen and Georgia Hall.

And after her Augusta success, she became the best women’s amateur player on the planet – the first time an English woman had reached the summit of the World Amateur Golf Rankings – and made the top 25 at the Chevron Championship.

That brought her the Mark H McCormack medal as the leading woman for 2024.

A bright professional future surely awaits.

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Matt Chivers

Now on the wrong side of 25, Matt has been playing golf since the age of 13 and was largely inspired to take up the game by countless family members who played golf during his childhood.

Matt is a member at Royal Cinque Ports in Deal playing off a 5 handicap, just a pitching wedge away from his hometown of Dover where he went to school and grew up. He has previously been a member at Etchinghill and Walmer and Kingsdown in Kent.

Having studied history at the University of Liverpool, Matt went on to pass his NCTJ Exams in Manchester a year later to fulfil his lifelong ambition of becoming a journalist. He picked up work experience along the way at places such as the Racing Post, the Independent, Sportsbeat and the Lancashire Evening Post.

Matt joined NCG in February 2023 and is the website’s main source of tour news, features and opinion. He has reported live from events such as The Open, the Ryder Cup and The Players Championship, having also interviewed and spoken to the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Lee Westwood, Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson, to name just a few.

Consuming tour golf on what is a 24/7 basis, you can come to Matt for informed views on the game and the latest updates on the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA Tour, Ladies European Tour and LIV Golf.

What’s in Matt’s bag: Cobra LTDx LS driver, Cobra LTDx 3-wood, TaylorMade P7MC irons, Ping Glide 4.0 wedges, Odyssey putter.