Diksha looks for a big week at Scottish Open, Avani, Pranavi also in field

Dundonald Links, Scotland, July 22: Diksha Dagar alongside Avani Prashanth and Pranavi Urs return to competition as the Ladies European Tour returns to action after a two-week break. The ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open, which is co-sanctioned with the LPGA also gives the players a chance to get to the LPGA with a win here.

A year ago Lottie Woad won on her professional debut at the ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open. The now World number five had a quick rise to the top winning on the Ladies European Tour (LET) at the KPMG Women's Irish Open as an amateur before securing her LPGA card, turning professional, and then securing victory in Scotland. Woad returns to Dundonald Links this year with another LPGA Tour title under her belt and is excited to be back.

Dundonald Links is hosting this week's ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open for the fifth consecutive year.

Diksha is having a great run this season. Though the Hero backed golfer has not added to her two LET wins, she has come close often. She has had three Top-10 finishes in last four events - T-9 in Jabra Ladies Open de France, T-3 at Dutch Ladies and T-7 at Hulencourt Ladies. In between she was T-12 at Czech Ladies, which she has won in the past.

A win change Diksha's career path and this season she has five Top-10s and three other results of T-21 or better. She is eighth on the LET Order of Merit and a good finish this week can push her up even further. Her best has been third in 2023 and she was 25th last year.

The co-sanctioned event between the LET and LPGA Tour sees a field of 144 players representing 33 nationalities teeing it up from July 23-26.

Woad said, "I definitely have special memories and positive ones coming into this week. To come back to a place that I've played well and I've played before," said Woad. "Coming here last year, I was coming off a good stretch and everything happened pretty quickly.

"I was trying to get my LPGA card and then make my pro debut and then I was winning here and it was AIG the next week. Everything happened so quickly and now it's been a year and I've had time to reflect on it, it's definitely more special than maybe I thought at the time."

With the UK having been in a heatwave recently, the course is playing a little differently than last year.

In a repeat of 2025, Woad will be playing alongside world number one Nelly Korda and England's Charley Hull for the first two days in Scotland.