Charlotte Woad (born 17 January 2004) is an English amateur

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er. She won the 2022

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and 2024

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, and reached number one in the

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in June 2024.

Golf career

In 2021, Woad won the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship. In May 2022, she made her debut on the

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in the Madrid Open. In August 2022, Woad won the

. Woad enrolled at

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in 2022 and started playing with the Florida State Seminoles women's golf team. She was WGCA Freshman of the Year, and as a junior FSU Female Athlete of the Year and ACC Golfer of the Year. In April 2024, Woad won the

. In May, she finished runner-up to

Adéla Cernousek Adéla Cernousek (born 13 August 2003) is a French professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. She was the individual winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I women's golf championship, 2024 NCAA Championship. Early life Cernousek was born in Antibes ne ...

in the individual competition at the NCAA Division I women's golf championship. In June 2024, she rose to number one in the

. In August 2024, she was named as the winner of the Mark H. McCormack Medal; this made her the first woman from England to win that medal. In the same month she was also awarded the Smyth Salver at the

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Personal life

Woad was born in January 2004, the daughter of Rachel and Nick Woad. She comes from

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Amateur wins

*2019 Surrey Ladies County Championship *2021 The Critchley Astor Salver, Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship *2022 Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters,

, Ivy Intercollegiate *2023 Florida State Match Up, Annika Intercollegiate *2024

, Landfall Tradition *2025 Moon Invitational Source:

Results in LPGA majors

LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances

* European Young Masters (representing England): 2019 * Girls and Boys Home Internationals (representing England): 2021 (winners) * Women's and Men's Home Internationals (representing England): 2022 (winners), 2023 (winners), 2024 *

European Ladies' Team Championship The European Ladies' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1959. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been pl ...

(representing England):

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

(winners),

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fren ...

(representing England):

Patsy Hankins Trophy The Patsy Hankins Trophy is a women's amateur golf competition on the model of the Ryder Cup, corresponding to the men's Bonallack Trophy. The competition opposes every two years a European team and a team representing Asia/Pacific, and the venue a ...

(representing Europe): 2023, 2025 *

Vagliano Trophy The Vagliano Trophy is a biennial women's amateur golf tournament. It is co-organised by The R&A and the European Golf Association and is contested by teams representing "Great Britain and Ireland" and the "Continent of Europe". It is played in o ...

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2023 *

Arnold Palmer Cup The Arnold Palmer Cup is an annual team golf competition for college/university golfers. It is named for Arnold Palmer. From 2018 it has been contested between a United States team and an International team representing the rest of the world. The ...

(representing International team): 2023, 2025 (winners) *

Curtis Cup The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match. It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and The R&A and is contested by teams representing the United States and " ...

(representing the Great Britain & Ireland):

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

(winners) Source:

References

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