Rose Zhang put off studying for a bit to take a media tour of New York City, stopping first at NBC’s Today Show Plaza to talk about her historic victory at the Mizuho Americas Open. The 20-year-old beat major champion and fellow NCAA and Augusta National Women’s Amateur winner Jennifer Kupcho in a two-hole playoff at Liberty National to clinch an LPGA title in her professional debut.
Zhang, who has won 10 of her last 12 stroke-play events, told “Today” hosts she had more than 500 messages on her cell phone when she finally took a break from the madness to look.
