Golf: Top-ranked amateur Zhang announces decision to turn professional

FILE PHOTO: Rose Zhang of the U.S. poses with the trophy after winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, U.S., April 1, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

(Reuters) - American Rose Zhang, who has earned virtually every women's amateur golf accomplishment so far in her decorated career, announced on Friday that she is turning professional.

The 20-year-old Stanford sophomore, who leaves the amateur ranks having held top spot in the women's world amateur golf ranking for a record 141 consecutive weeks, will make her pro debut at the LPGA's June 1-4 Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey.