Lottie Woad won the Kroger Queen City Championship by two shots, earning her second LPGA Tour victory and jumping to No. 5 in the world.
Lottie Woad is no longer just a rising LPGA Tour name. She’s crashing the elite tier.
Woad won the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G on Sunday at Maketewah Country Club, closing with a 1-under round to finish two shots clear of Haeran Ryu.
The victory gave the 22-year-old English star her second LPGA Tour title and pushed her into the top five of the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings for the first time.
That’s a serious statement with the 2026 Solheim Cup conversation heating up.
Woad built her win with rounds of 70-64-65-69, showing the kind of control and nerve that travels well under pressure. She wasn’t flashy just for the sake of it. She stacked birdies, avoided the big mistake and made the field chase her all weekend.
Ryu gave her a real fight. The five-time LPGA Tour winner fired a final-round 67 and finished alone in second at 270, just two shots back.
She also led the field with 22 birdies, another sign that her game is sitting dangerously close to another win. It was Ryu’s sixth top-10 finish of the 2026 LPGA season.
But Cincinnati belonged to Woad.
The win moved her up five spots to No. 5 in the world rankings and strengthened her position for automatic qualification on the European Solheim Cup team.
At 22, she’s already becoming one of the names nobody wants to see near the top of a Sunday leaderboard.
There were other ranking rockets, too. Jin Young Ko finished tied for fifth and climbed seven spots to No. 44, while Amanda Doherty made the week’s biggest leap.
Her T5 finish helped her jump 199 places to No. 221, the best ranking of her career.
Still, the headline is Woad. Two LPGA wins. World top five. Solheim Cup momentum. That’s not hype anymore. That’s arrival.
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