SPRINGFIELD, N.J.—After stunning women’s golf by winning in her first event as professional, Rose Zhang will try to take the next big step when she goes for her first major victory in the Women’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol—and is in contention four strokes behind the opening round leader, Lee-Anne Pace, with a score of –1 (T12).
And it’s been just a month in the making for the 20-year-old from Irvine, Calif., who many believed was going to be the next big celebrity in her sport, similar to when Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa returned in a two-year span ending in 2010.
