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[LPGA TOUR]

ROSE ZHANG WINS 72ND GIRLS’ JUNIOR

FOR SECOND USGA TITLE

72번째 미국 여자 주니어 우승

두 번째 USGA 타이틀, 로즈 장

or nearly her entire life, Rose Zhang has made amazing,” said Zhang, 18, of Irvine, Calif. “In USGA
Fhistory with a golf club in her hands. She added to events, you really need your ‘A’ game in terms of your
her illustrious list of accomplishments on Saturday, with patience, your grit and your golf game.
a 6-and-4 victory over Bailey Davis to win the 72nd U.S. After a 3-hour, 15-minute delay for dangerous weather,
Girls’ Junior at Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Zhang fittingly closed the match in style, hitting the
Md. flagstick with her 138-yard approach on the par-4 32nd.
Zhang, who came into this week as the No. 1 player in She converted the 5-foot birdie putt – her 10th of the
the World Amateur Golf Ranking, now holds two USGA day – and was promptly doused with a celebratory water
titles concurrently: the Girls’ Junior and the U.S. Women’s shower. With the Girls’ Junior canceled last year due to
Amateur, which she won 11 months ago at Woodmont the COVID-19 pandemic, winning the Glenna Collett Vare
Country Club in Rockville, Md., just 8 miles from Trophy was worth the wait for Zhang.
Columbia. Zhang is the eighth player to have won both “I'm really proud of the commitment and work that I put
championships and the first to have won the Women’s in over the past year,” said Zhang, an incoming freshman
Amateur first. at Stanford University. “I’ve gotten more experienced,
“To be able to win in such a grueling week, it's truly both in how I play and how I handle myself. And after

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