Golf has a new star in Rose Zhang after the amateur sensation won on her professional debut, earning praise from – and comparisons to – the great Tiger Woods.
Like 15-time major champion Woods, Zhang studied at Stanford and has dominated the amateur scene, winning the national college championship back-to-back as well as the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
The 20-year-old put together one of the best resumes ever seen in the unpaid ranks, spending a record 141 weeks atop the world amateur rankings, and her professional career started in stunning fashion, too, as she lifted the Mizuho Americas Open title in her first LPGA Tour outing on June 4, defeating major champion Jennifer Kupcho in a playoff to bank a winner's cheque of $412,500 (£327,000).
