Rose Zhang will miss the LPGA’s first major of the year, the 2025 Chevron Championship, due to a neck injury that kept her out of last week’s JM Eagle LA Championship.
The 21-year-old opened the season at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in January in the midst of Stanford’s winter quarter. She skipped the LPGA’s spring Asian swing to continue her studies and returned to action in late March at the Ford Championship, where she missed the cut with rounds of 73-70.
At the T-Mobile Match Play in early April, Zhang conceded her second-round match against Albane Valenzuela due to injury.
“I had a problem last week and then it like just extended to this week,” said Zhang after she halved a match against Nataliya Guseva at Shadow Creek, “and my neck problems kind of get pretty bad.”
Later on Instagram, Zhang kept it light as she said she’d be taking time off to recover, telling fans to remember, “this isn’t a sob story.”
The two-time LPGA winner is currently ranked 20th in the world.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Injured Rose Zhang to miss LPGA’s first major, the Chevron Championship