Rose Zhang racks up another top-10 major finish at Evian Championship

Rose Zhang tied for ninth on the Amundi Evian Championship in France this previous weekend. It’s the third time this season that the previous Stanford Cardinal completed inside the high 10 at a serious, in three begins.

The 20-year-old completed birdie-birdie on the seventeenth and 18th holes Sunday, carding a 3-under 68 for her closing spherical.

Zhang completed at 5-under for the championship, 9 strokes behind Celine Boutier, who received the title in dominating vogue on her dwelling soil.

“It’s wonderful,” Zhang mentioned when requested about the best way she completed. “You at all times love ending a superb spherical in somewhat bit of fashion. I used to be actually glad that I used to be in a position to convert these putts. Any putt out right here shouldn’t be a given, so the truth that the ball was going within the gap, I used to be actually glad.”

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Zhang has been one of many largest tales in ladies’s golf in 2023.

She received the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner the week earlier than the Masters.

In her LPGA debut, the Mizuho Americas Open, Zhang defeated Jennifer Kupcho in a playoff to assert her first skilled victory in June. She turned the primary lady since Beverly Hanson 72 years in the past to win her first professional begin.

Zhang completed in a tie for eighth on the Girls’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol three weeks later. She then tied for ninth on the U.S. Girls’s Open at Pebble Seashore earlier than her most up-to-date efficiency in France.

“I really feel like I’m heading in the right direction in my psychological house and navigating all the tour life,” Zhang mentioned. “I nonetheless really feel like I’ve a lot extra enchancment forward of me, which I’m excited for the educational curve and the expansion improvement I’ll have afterward.”

It appears to be only a matter of time earlier than Zhang breaks by and wins her first main championship.

Her subsequent alternative will come on the AIG Girls’s British Open, which is able to happen from Aug. 10-13 at Walton Heath Golf Membership in Surrey, England.

Walton Heath hosted the 1981 Ryder Cup, which the Individuals dominated.

As for Zhang, she tied for twenty eighth on the 2022 AIG Girls’s British Open, receiving low newbie honors.

Final yr’s event was held at Muirfield in Scotland.

She additionally performed in 2021, when she missed the minimize at Carnoustie.

However Zhang has way more confidence and the sport to contend in a serious championship than she did then.

If she sticks to her sport plan, she’s going to probably be there come Sunday.

“Recreation plan is simply to execute each shot that I can and actually decide to my swing,” Zhang mentioned Sunday. “Regardless of as an newbie or a professional, I nonetheless attempt to go on the market and beat the golf course.”

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying Via. You’ll be able to observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Be sure you try @_PlayingThrough too.