In her AIG Women's Open debut this year at Muirfield, Zhang finished in a tie for 28th to take home the Smyth Salver and add another achievement to what is becoming an historic amateur career.
Zhang is second only to Lydia Ko in the longest unbroken spell as women’s amateur world number one,, having taken over at the top after her victory at the US Women’s Amateur in September 2020. By then had already competed in the US Women's Open at the age of 16 and finished 11th in the ANA Inspiration, while this May she added the NCAA college championship by three strokes.
Like Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie before her, she has studied at Stanford University and has been on two winning Curtis and Junior Solheim Cup teams as well as the 2018 Junior Ryder Cup.