IRVINE, Scotland -- Lottie Woad tapped in one final birdie, plucked the ball out of the cup and gave a simple wave to the crowd as if she had done this before. The English star made it look easy Sunday when she won the Women's Scottish Open in her professional debut.

I've always felt that breakthrough victories reveal the character of a golfer in ways no practice round ever could. What Lottie Woad's wire-to-wire performance at Dundonald Links showed me was that although it was technically brilliant,