Rose Zhang keeps making history, wins first professional start after NCAA title

It wasn’t easy.

Rose Zhang hopped in a golf cart and headed back to the tee at the par-4 18th for a second playoff hole against Jennifer Kupcho.

The 18th hadn’t been kind to the budding superstar on Sunday; she bogeyed it in regulation and had to make a clutch putt on the first playoff hole to stay in it.

Full-field scores from the Mizuho Americas Open

For the first time in three tries she found the fairway, but was left with 180 yards for her approach. Kupcho had just 146 and appeared to be in the driver’s seat.

That changed with one swing.

Zhang took the headcover off a hybrid and took dead-aim, curling an approach inside 10 feet on her 20th hole of the day.

She would miss the putt, but Kupcho…