LPGA monitoring after 10 golfers, including Rose Zhang, withdraw from Mizuho Americas Open WSOC TV [Video]

The LPGA Tour is monitoring the situation after seven people, including star and defending champion Rose Zhang, withdrew from the Mizuho Americas Open due to various illnesses this week.

Zhang, 20, pulled out of the New Jersey tournament after just three holes on Thursday.

“I am really disappointed that I had to withdraw from the Mizuho Americas Open today,” Zhang said in a statement on social media. “This tournament holds a special place in my heart, having had such an amazing week last year when I captured my first LPGA Tour win here at Liberty National. I was really looking forward to trying to defend my title, but unfortunately spent the last 12 hours with really bad intestinal pain.”

Zhang has won twice on the LPGA Tour, including for the first time in her career at last year’s Mizuho Americas Open — which she did as an amateur. She won …