Lottie Woad: Augusta National Women's Amateur champion - and Leeds United fan

New Augusta National Women's Amateur champion Lottie Woad is hoping to emulate the success of Rose Zhang but is in no rush to turn professional with her immediate focus on playing at St Andrews - and the fortunes of Leeds United. English golfer Woad, a student at Florida State University, became the first European winner of the Augusta event on Saturday, birdieing her final two holes, and three of her last four, to finish one stroke ahead of American Bailey Shoemaker.

I'm just going to keep trying to play well and experience all these great things I am going to get to do. ' is the best one, playing at the home of golf . That is the best major in my opinion, being from England, so that is going to be really cool.' Woad, from Farnham in Surrey, was eager to find out the Leeds score after her sizzling finish at Augusta - and said learning the promotion chasers had been beaten 2-1 by Coventry 'ruined my day a little bit'.

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