Will she be the "Tiger Woods" of women's golf? Impossible to predict. One certainty: Rose Zhang has already done better among amateurs than the man with fifteen Grand Slam titles.
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In May, the Californian won the NCAA Division I women's championship, surpassing Woods' number of wins with twelve individual college titles (Woods had eleven) in twenty tournaments played. Like the former world No. 1, she studied at Stanford and, like him in his time, she decided to turn pro at 20.
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By the time she ended her amateur career, she set the record for consecutive weeks at the top of the amateur world rankings with 141 weeks, surpassing Ireland's Leona Maguire's 135 weeks. Stanford coach Anne Walker described her as "the Mozart or Van Gogh of golf." Just that! Unlike Woods, already a club phenomenon in hand at 3 years old, Zhang started golf relatively late, at the age of...
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