Luke Bone has been coaching Lottie Woad since she was eight years old. The Farnham Professional has seen Woad become the World No. 1 amateur, win at Augusta where she would birdie three of the last four holes, and be part of a victorious Curtis Cup team at Sunningdale.
If 2024 was spectacular, then this year has been even more impressive. The amateur star very nearly won a Major at the Evian Championship, she did then win by six shots on the Ladies European Tour in Ireland and, in her first start in the paid ranks, she captured the Scottish Open, a co-sanctioned event with the LPGA Tour. She is now up to 11th in the world and will surely make her Solheim Cup debut next year in the Netherlands.
Lottie Woad 2025
You might not have expected Lottie to finish third in a Major, win back-to-back events and then finish 8th in the AIG Women’s Open but, from a very young age, it never surprised me when she kept hitting that next level – because it was obvious that it was what she was so determined to do.
She would always come back having done the work. It’s not always easy to make change, and being a determined young girl, she might get frustrated if it wasn’t happening as quickly as she wanted but she had implemented it within the next week or so.
Over those years of doing that you develop a trust between the player and the coach, which is where where we’ve landed ourselves now, and everything she set out to do as a goal she has achieved so far. I would never have bet against her and I still wouldn’t bet against her in what she plans to achieve going forward.
Lottie Woad with the ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open trophy
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Work Ethic
Lottie’s work ethic to achieve, in terms of practice and hitting balls, is unrivalled. I’ve been on tour with her and at Majors and a tournament week is different to what you see behind the scenes. But even at a tournament week she’s first there on the range and we have even had to discuss how to make sure she doesn’t tire herself out.
There are a lot of people who work a lot of the time but it’s the smart working and the lack of wastage that…
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