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Rose Zhang opens with lowest round in Augusta National Women's Am. history

The Augusta National Women’s Amateur got underway Wednesday morning at Champions Retreat Golf Club, and the top-ranked amateur in the world wasted no time in getting to the top of the leaderboard.

Rose Zhang, who enters this tournament No. 1 in the Women’s WAGR rankings for the third consecutive year, opened with a 6-under 66, which is the lowest round ever recorded in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

Full-field scores from the Augusta National Women’s Amateur

“I think that from the start of the round, I really just wanted to kind of make pars because at Champions Retreat, you never know what you're going to get,” Zhang said.