{"id":18300,"date":"2025-07-24T19:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/laffar-leads-womens-scottish-open-korda-in-the-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:17:20","slug":"laffar-leads-womens-scottish-open-korda-in-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/laffar-leads-womens-scottish-open-korda-in-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Laffar Leads Women&#8217;s Scottish Open; Korda in the Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"IRVINE, Scotland \u2013 Lottie Woad made her professional debut on Thursday and not much changed. The rising English star had a 67 under par and was among those who were one stroke behind Charlotte Laffar after the opening round of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Open.\n\nLaffar, who returned to the Ladies European Tour in May after taking four years off to have two children, started with a bogey at Dundonald Links and made up for it with eight birdies on the rest of the course for a 66.\n\nLed by one over five players. That group included Leona Maguire, who had a very different start to her day than Laffar. Maguire holed out from the first fairway for eagle. Nelly Korda, still seeking her first win of the year after a seven-win season in 2024, was among those who shot 68.\n\nThe tournament is co-sanctioned by the LPGA and the LET, an ideal spot before the final major of the year, next week&#8217;s Women&#8217;s British Open at Royal Porthcawl in Wales.\n\nWoad first gained attention when she won the Augusta National Women&#8217;s Amateur in 2023 and then rose to number 1 in the women&#8217;s amateur rankings while at Florida State. She won the Irish Women&#8217;s Open three weeks ago as an amateur and then finished one stroke off a playoff in a major at the Evian Championship. That secured her an LPGA card and she turned professional.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m trying to keep as much momentum as possible and keep playing how I was playing. It worked today, so I&#8217;ll try to do that again in the next few days. It didn&#8217;t feel very different today. I think having all the experience I&#8217;ve had in majors and competing gave me everything I needed, and I didn&#8217;t really have to change much.<\/p><cite>Lottie Woad<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nLaffar, 32, from England, made four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine and regained the lead with a birdie on the 17th. Her husband, David, was caddying for her and they left their children with their grandparents.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have no pressure. Golf is the life of many people here, but my children are my life. So this has become more of a working hobby, I guess you could say. I just have to enjoy every moment. I don&#8217;t know how long I&#8217;m going to do it. I&#8217;ll see how it goes. I have to show the kids how I used to play.<\/p><cite>Charlotte Laffar<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, Scotland \u2013 Lottie Woad made her professional debut on Thursday and not much changed. The rising English star had a 67 under par and was among those who were one stroke behind Charlotte Laffar after the opening round of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Open. Laffar, who returned to the Ladies European Tour in May after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6280,5447,1515,6281],"class_list":{"0":"post-18300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-charlotte-laffar","9":"tag-lottie-woad","10":"tag-lpga","11":"tag-womens-scottish-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}