A closing bogey by the world’s top-ranked amateur handed Sweden its first Espirito Santo Trophy since 2008 and relegated the U.S. to a silver medal on Saturday at the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship in Paris.
American superstar Rose Zhang had just birdied No. 17 to move to 4 under on her final round and give the U.S. trio of Zhang, Rachel Heck and Rachel Kuehn a one-shot lead over Sweden with one hole to play. But Zhang, now a three-time McCormack Medal winner and the reigning NCAA individual champion, missed the green with her approach at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Breteche’s par-4 18th hole and then failed to convert a 7-footer for par.