LPGA: Rose Zhang withdraws from Mizuho Americas Open, occasion she received

Rose Zhang won’t defend her title on the Mizuho Americas Open this week.

She withdrew solely three holes into her first spherical early Thursday morning, which started at 7:55 a.m. native time. Zhang opened with a par at 10, made a double-bogey on the eleventh, after which parred the twelfth gap earlier than calling it quits because of an sickness.

The Stanford standout arrived at Liberty Nationwide contemporary off a formidable win on the Cognizant Founders Cup, her second profession LPGA victory. It additionally marked her second win within the state of New Jersey after her thrilling victory at Liberty Nationwide one yr in the past.

However after her win final week, Zhang had an outing on Lengthy Island on Monday. She then had her pre-tournament press convention on Tuesday and spent Wednesday training. However Wednesday featured depressing and moist circumstances with temperatures within the 50s.

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But, regardless of her busy schedule, Zhang had nothing to say about her well being earlier within the week.

She as a substitute mirrored on her latest success.

“Final week got here just a little bit unexpectedly, I feel. Going into the occasion, I haven’t had the most effective season but, and I’ve been studying rather a lot about myself, been studying rather a lot about my sport and the way I ought to prep,” Zhang mentioned of his win final week.

“There wasn’t something that aligned tremendous effectively once I was on the market enjoying. I feel beginning out the primary two rounds gave me just a little little bit of confidence to actually form of have a spark in enjoying the sport as I envision it, after which to have the ability to actually minimize to the wire and play in opposition to Madelene [Sagstrom] mainly nearly like a match play format was tremendous unbelievable and had quite a lot of enjoyable.”

Zhang’s subsequent begin will come on the U.S. Girls’s Open at Lancaster Nation Membership in two weeks.

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