Hannah Green
Recently, a "new history" news made headlines in the Western golf media: former U.S. Women's PGA Champion Hannah Green won the championship by 4 strokes ahead of the 2022 Vic Open.
A female professional golfer who won an exciting championship in a men's and women's professional tour-certified event with world points, Hannah Green's victory was seen by foreign media as a new historic feat. "It's a really good feeling that I can be the first woman to win a mixed race even worldwide. Hopefully, this isn't the last time women will hold a trophy. She said.
But was Hannah Green from Australia really the "first" player in the world to accomplish this feat?
Chinese golf fans must not identify with such a "new history." As early as November 7, 2020, at the Hangzhou International Golf Championship, which was jointly certified by the women's central tour and the men's central tour, the women's professional player Zhang Jienalin stood out in the unisex competition and won the championship with a one-stroke advantage. In the world of golf, Jennalin Zhang made this new history 16 months ahead of Hannah Green.
Zhang Jie Nalin
What is the origin of Zhang Jienalin's winning Hangzhou International Golf Championship? Can it break through this history first in the Western world, which is ahead of the developed golf world?
In fact, the first Hangzhou International Golf Championship was held in 2019, and once the event was established, it was jointly certified by the China Women's Professional Golf Tour and the China Men's Professional Golf Tour, with both men's and women's world points. The Hangzhou International Tournament, which was born that year, launched the world's first three-in-one format consisting of a 72-hole individual match and a 36-hole team match. In the end, the women's championship was won by Zhang Weiwei, the men's was won by Chao Haimeng, and the Thai team's Sutipa and Puri combined to win the team championship.
The 2nd Hangzhou International Golf Championship in 2020 has made a comprehensive innovation to the format. The tournament adopts a mixed men's and women's individual par competition system, which is the first time in the history of the world's major golf tournaments that men and women are in the same stage.
The 78-star lineup of 39 men's players and 39 women's players set off from the different tee tables of the Moganshan Guanyun Golf Club (men's 7017 yards, women's 6106 yards, par par 72) and began a four-day competition.
Interestingly, the World Points Organization treated this mixed event as two separate matches, that is, the men's and women's world points were calculated independently, so that the event did not reach the last hole and there was still a possibility of playing up to two extra holes, that is, one to determine the outcome of the event, and the other to determine the first place of the same gender. Fortunately, professional golfer Zhang Jienalin pushed to win the 10-foot birdie on the 18-hole green to end this plus hole suspense, won the coveted professional first title in the unisex PK, and became the first female player in the world to win the professional golf tour in the co-ed game!
Zhang Jienalin also won 180,000 yuan in prize money for the Hangzhou International Championship, won 3 women's world points, and the world ranking rose by 152 places, and after the race to the world's 475th place!
Zhang Jienalin, who wrote a new historical record in the golf world, was also invited to participate in the 2020 Volvo China Open because of her victory in the unisex competition, and the 24-year-old female professional golfer became the first female player in the 26-year history of the Volvo China Open!
History is always being created! We have witnessed the emergence of countless firsts, and please believe that they can continue to create "new history" on the road to chasing their dreams!
Image source: Women's Middle Patrol and Network