Lottie Woad has been labelled as the UK’s hottest golfing prospect since Rory McIlroy but this week at Augusta, the 21-year-old has the chance to join an exclusive club of which the Ulsterman can only dream.
Only three players have successfully defended a global title at the revered Masters course – Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Sir Nick Faldo – and the Surrey prodigy can enrol alongside these legends by retaining the Augusta National Women’s Amateur this week.
“It’s definitely a huge opportunity, and one that I couldn’t imagine when I was watching Augusta as a kid, because this competition didn’t exist then [ANWA was introduced in 2019],” Woad told Telegraph Sport.