Saturday, May 18

Rose Zhang flip flops on jumping into lake with Chevron Championship win

Rose Zhang is making her Chevron Championship launching today, as the child is approaching her 1 year anniversary on the LPGA Tour.

She began 2024 with a complete course load at Stanford and played in several LPGA Tour occasions. Zhang’s quarterfinal loss at the T-Mobile LPGA Match Play occasion 2 weeks ago significant her finest surface of the year, a T5.

Now she is trying to find her very first significant title. If she were to win it, Zhang will be faced with a hard choice.

Typically, the winner of this occasion delves into the lake beside the 18th green.

Ahead of the Chevron Championship, Zhang might not choose if she would keep with custom.

“I was talking with my caddie about it. I have actually played ANA and the ANA Junior Inspiration before. The swimming pool looks a little better than out here,” Zhang stated. “I saw the board. At that point, if you’re a significant champion, why not? Simply leap in. Yeah, I do not believe I would do it willingly,” Zhang stated jokingly.

In 2015, Lilia Vu kept the custom alive by delving into the lake after she won her very first significant.

Zhang made history in 2015, winning her LPGA launching at the Mizuho Americas Open and took the world by storm. She is utilized to making history, as Zhang closed her amateur profession off by winning back-to-back NCAA Individual titles.

With her first success, the previous Stanford Cardinal made her method 4 of the 5 majors in 2023. She taped 3 leading 10s, ending up T9 at the U.S. Women’s Open and the Amundi Evian Championship with a T8 at the KPMG Women’s PGA.

If Zhang were to come out on the top Sunday, it looks like it would be a spur-of-the-moment choice to see if she will keep the custom.

Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf personnel author for SB Nation’s Playing Through. For more golf protection, make certain to follow us @_PlayingThrough on all significant social platforms. You can likewise follow her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports.

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