Two former Seminoles will team up as professionals just 400 miles from where they starred as collegiate golfers.
Lottie Woad and Luke Clanton are among the 16 teams announced for this year’s Grant Thornton Invitational, the third playing of a tournament that pairs 16 LPGA Tour players with 16 PGA Tour pros for a mixed team event at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla., on Dec. 12-14.
Woad and Clanton, both 21, are the youngest team in the field, and they were both members of the Florida State golf team at the same time.
Woad, who is from England, burst onto the scene when she won the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur and rose to No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking later that summer. She continued her strong play in 2025, winning the Ladies European Tour’s Women’s Irish Open in July as an amateur. She turned pro a couple weeks later and won the Women’s Scottish Open in her professional debut.
Her partner for the Grant Thornton Invitational, Clanton, has also created plenty of buzz. Once the No. 1-ranked amateur, he turned professional in June 2025 and immediately joined the PGA Tour via his PGA Tour University Accelerated points. He didn’t win in 2025 but made 10 of 15 cuts and had two top-25 finishes.
The Grant Thornton Invitational field boasts 137 combined LPGA and PGA Tour victories and 10 major champions. The tournament is three rounds and includes scramble, foursomes and a modified four-ball.
Other notable teams are Lydia Ko and Jason Day, Nelly Korda and Denny McCarthy, Lilia Vu and Tony Finau, Charley Hull and Daniel Berger, and Lexi Thompson and Wyndham Clark. Patty Tavatanakit and Jake Knapp are also back to defend their title won last year. Check out all 16 teams below.
2025 Grant Thornton Invitational teams
Patty Tavatanakit and Jake Knapp
Lydia Ko and Jason Day
Lilia Vu and Tony Finau
Nelly Korda and Denny McCarthy
Jessica Korda and Bud Cauley
Brooke Henderson and Corey Conners
Andrea Lee and Billy Horschel
Charley Hull and Daniel Berger
Lottie Woad and Luke Clanton
Lexi Thompson and Wyndham Clark
Jennifer Kupcho and Chris Gotterup
Rose Zhang and Michael Kim
Lauren Coughlin and Andrew Novak
Maja Stark and Neal Shipley
Angel Yin and Tom Hoge
Megan Khang and Keith Mitchell
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