U.S. Girls’s Open: LPGA, Rose Zang excited for giant highlight

The most effective feminine gamers on this planet have descended upon Lancaster Nation Membership for the U.S. Girls’s Open because the LPGA gears as much as crown one other main winner.

Coined the hardest take a look at in ladies’s golf, these girls are excited, together with younger phenom Rose Zhang.

“I adore it right here,” Zhang stated on Wednesday.

“The course is taking part in tough. There’s excessive demand in hitting fairways, greens, and across the tough—it’s fairly penalizing. The greens themselves are very undulating… It’s difficult and really deserving to be a U.S. Open course.”

The final time she accomplished a full occasion, Zhang gained the Cognizant Founders Cup, her second LPGA victory in lower than a 12 months on Tour. She defeated Madelene Sagström, a veteran participant from Sweden.

Zhang made 4 birdies in her ultimate 5 holes to finish the insane comeback victory.

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“A variety of issues clicked for me,” Zhang stated.

“I used to be very dedicated to my recreation, and I had the feels in me to have the ability to assault pins once I wanted to and make putts once I wanted to.”

Nonetheless, she couldn’t defend her title the next week as she withdrew from the Mizuho Americas Open because of an sickness.

That point away from the golf course doesn’t deter her from accepting the problem forward of her at Lancaster. She nonetheless feels assured in the place her recreation is as she eyes her first main title.

“I really feel like the sport is trending in the appropriate route,” Zhang stated.

“Whatever the outcomes, I believe there’s a whole lot of enchancment from the place my recreation stood earlier than the final two weeks.”

This week, the LPGA may have much more eyes on their gamers. NBC Sports activities will air 26 hours of dwell protection, together with on community tv late on Saturday and Sunday for the third and ultimate rounds.

“These are issues I believe we’ve slowly develop into extra accustomed to, particularly once we’re on the market and making an attempt to arrange and do our work,” Zhang stated.

“It’s nearly higher as a result of there’s extra consideration to the ladies’s recreation, and everybody feels inspired and obligated to come back out right here and play their finest— do their finest. I believe there’s a constructive facet to that.”

Zhang is among the many many names to look at this week, together with Nelly Korda, Brooke Henderson, and Lexi Thompson. She may have some heavy hitters to compete towards, however the teen has the sport to win.

Korda is trying to win her second straight main and seventh victory in her final eight begins. Will followers see the world primary truck by means of one other discipline, or will somebody like Zhang take dwelling the U.S. Girls’s Open?

Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By. For extra golf protection, make sure you observe us @_PlayingThrough on all main social platforms. You may as well observe her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports.