The 19-year-old Californian became the first female golfer in history to win two consecutive individual national championships when she defended her NCAA National Championship title in Arizona on Monday.
Zhang beat Renee Heiken and Lorena Ochoa's NCAA record of eight wins in a single season with a four-under 68 at Scottsdale's Grayhawk Golf Club, despite starting the final round four shots behind the leader.
It likewise sees Zhang attach Ochoa for most NCAA vocation triumphs with 12, a take that sets another Stanford College benchmark - male or female - for wins; among the four individuals who held the prior record: Stanford graduated class Tiger Woods.
After a remarkable amateur career, Woods, a 15-time major champion, quickly established himself as an all-time great. Just before her twentieth birthday celebration on Wednesday, Zhang likewise brags an eye-watering list early honors.
Zhang broke the record for the most weeks spent at the top of the women's amateur world rankings when she won the Augusta National Women's Amateur in April. She has been at the top of the rankings for more than two and a half years.
That was in addition to victories at the US Women's Amateur in 2020 and the US Girls' Junior in 2021, which were the highlights of a string of amateur titles.
"She's the outright GOAT. She is the best novice ever," said Stanford mentor Anne Walker, as indicated by Golf Summary.
Zhang, be that as it may, is in no hurry to guarantee the tag.
In an interview with the NCAA prior to the National Championship, she stated, "I couldn't be more thankful" that "Me even being in the same sentence with Tiger Woods is just so weird and so foreign."
I don't know what records I'm setting. I don't actually contemplate those, particularly when I'm having on the grounds that an influence of being a superior worker and some portion of playing great includes remaining in the present. I take everything in this way because these things occur as byproducts of my work.
“I don't read much about them, but when someone sends me an article and says, "You broke this record, that's amazing," it's really cool. I think, "Wow, I can't believe I also did that." And afterward you continue on with life."
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