{"id":10148,"date":"2023-06-06T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mizuho-americas-open-rose-zhang-wins-lpga-tour-event-nine-days-after-turning-pro\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:17:24","slug":"mizuho-americas-open-rose-zhang-wins-lpga-tour-event-nine-days-after-turning-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mizuho-americas-open-rose-zhang-wins-lpga-tour-event-nine-days-after-turning-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizuho Americas Open: Rose Zhang wins LPGA Tour event nine days after turning pro"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Zhang received a sponsor’s invite to play in the LPGA event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n
–<\/span>9<\/strong> R Zhang (US), Kupcho (US) –<\/span>8 <\/strong>H Ryu (Kor) <\/span>-7 <\/strong>A Ashok (Ind), A Furue (Jpn), E Ji (Kor) <\/span>-6 <\/strong>Y Saso (Phl), A Buhai (RSA), L Maguire (Ire) <\/span>-5 <\/strong>D Kang (US), S Kyriacou (Aus), A Thitikul (Tha)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rose Zhang won the Mizuho Americas Open on her LPGA Tour debut just nine days after turning professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

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American Zhang, 20, beat Jennifer Kupcho, 26, on the second hole of a play-off to become the first woman to win on her first LPGA appearance since Beverly Hanson in 1951.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The pair went to a play-off after both finished nine under par at Liberty National in New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n

“What is happening? I just can’t believe it,” said Zhang.<\/span><\/p>\n

“To turn pro and come out here [and win], it’s just been amazing. I’ve enjoyed the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I really got a bit of everything, got a taste of the pressure, got a taste of the wind and I tried to stay composed as always. I knew that golf was just a grind and you really had to dig deep.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhang had the chance to win on the 18th hole in regulation but made a bogey to shoot a closing two-over 74 and join compatriot Kupcho, who carded a nine-under 69, on nine under. <\/span><\/p>\n

But she secured victory on the second hole of the play-off after Kupcho missed her putt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhang spent a record 141 weeks at the top of the women’s amateur rankings, surpassing the previous best of 135 set by Ireland’s Leona Maguire.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also won the <\/span>Augusta National Women’s Amateur<\/span><\/a> in April and her second straight NCAA individual title in May. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Zhang received a sponsor’s invite to play in the LPGA event –9 R Zhang (US), Kupcho (US) –8 H Ryu (Kor) -7 A Ashok (Ind), A Furue (Jpn), E Ji (Kor) -6 Y Saso (Phl), A Buhai (RSA), L Maguire (Ire) -5 D Kang (US), S Kyriacou (Aus), A Thitikul (Tha) Full leaderboardexternal-link Rose Zhang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}