The Florida state sophomore held off a charging Bailey Shoemaker and sank a 12-footer on the 18th to claim victory in the event.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—A picture-perfect day on the impeccably manicured Augusta National Golf Club was always going to make for a special occasion for those competing in the women’s amateur event that has been an annual tradition preceding the Masters .Woad, who is from England, became the first European to win the 54-hole event that began in 2019.
“I’m obviously disappointed, but at the end of the day, I played about as good as I could have. Maybe a couple of putts could have dropped. But I made just about everything too. It is what it is.” “I looked at the scoreboard pretty much every hole when I saw it,” she said. “I always look at the scoreboard, so I wasn’t going to change that.
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