Rose Zhang struggled at occasions along with her putter on Saturday. She sits eight off the chief on the U.S. Girls’s Open heading into the ultimate day of play.

Zhang got here out scorching, sinking a few birdies in her first six holes and had climbed inside a couple of photographs of the lead. Then, her placing grew to become an issue.

She missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the par-3 seventh after hitting a unbelievable tee shot. That’s the place it began to go unsuitable. After her spherical, she talked about her placing woes and the way it wasn’t till the No. 16 did she notice her clubface was too open.

“I felt it. I missed a few putts. Beginning on seven, I didn’t really feel as comfy with how I used to be inserting my membership,” Zhang stated in an LPGA interview. “The putter face — it regarded alright to me. Generally whenever you play into one thing, the notion of your eyes will get somewhat bit off.”

“I are likely to open or shut generally. That causes most likely like half an inch margin of error and causes you to overlook a few putts or lip out,” Zhang stated. “I noticed myself lacking a few extra putts to the correct quite the left… It’s simply one thing you return to by way of fundamentals.”

“Even when I do have an excellent stroke, I are likely to miss proper,” Zhang stated.

She went out in 34, with a birdie on No. 2 and No. 6. Nevertheless, that putt on No. 7 was a expensive one. It crushed her early momentum that she would by no means regain.

She made a bogey on the No. 10 and No. 13 holes to return in at 38 for a good par 72.

Zhang has to hit greens on Sunday and repair these placing points if she needs to claw her method again up the leaderboard. She tees off with defending U.S. Girls’s Open champ Minjee Lee at 12:36 p.m. PT.