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It wasn’t the booming drives or the crisp iron play that stood out when Miranda Wang walked into the press room at TPC River’s Bend this week. It was the calm, unhurried way she spoke about her first LPGA Tour win — as if she were already beginning to understand that golf, like life, is as much about composure as it is about competition.
“Yeah, it’s definitely an amazing title,” Wang said, smiling when reminded she is now an LPGA Tour champion. “It was like a dream come true. Also it’s part of the job, like dealing with your success, sometimes not good outcomes. We’re just dealing with all kinds of outcomes out there and finding that inner peace and focus on the golf course.”
That blend of joy and maturity is what makes Wang’s ascent so compelling. A rookie this season, she’s already added her name to a short but powerful list of Chinese winners on the LPGA Tour — joining trailblazers like Shanshan Feng and Ronni Yin.
“Growing up Shanshan was the only LPGA player in China,” Wang reflected. “She is such a legendary player, and I think like back in the day my dream was to be like her, to win, get on the Tour and win here.”
Her road has been steady rather than spectacular. She started with two wins on the WAPT, then climbed the Epson Tour ladder, before finally breaking through in Boston. Those formative years, Wang insists, built the toughness that carried her across the line when the lights were brightest.
“I think the greatest part of WAPT is that we’re playing four rounds every week, and it prepared me mentally and physically,” she explained. “Play Epson Tour was more competitive… every tour gave me different knowledge about being a professional.”
For all the seriousness, there’s still the joy of family at the heart of her story. After her Boston triumph, she didn’t jet off to a resort or pop champagne. She went home.
“My mom made dumplings for me,” she laughed. “She’s great at cooking. I love her dumplings. Also it was really good timing… so I could go home and celebrate with my parents. It was really, really good.”
Now she’s here in Ohio, facing a longer course that will demand precision with irons and nerves on the greens. But there’s a confidence about her that wasn’t there months ago. “I started the season with good momentum,” she said. “I found my comfortness on the Tour pretty early, so I think that’s helped me build up confidence and eventually win.”
Wang isn’t shy about what comes next. She calls this victory “a good beginning, a good start” and admits she dreams of one day winning a major. More than that, she hopes her breakthrough inspires the next wave of Chinese golfers to believe that they, too, belong on this stage.
In the meantime, she’ll keep grinding — working on her driver, chasing more consistency off the tee, and building a career one week at a time. But with a trophy already on the shelf, and her mother’s dumplings as fuel, Miranda Wang has proven she’s more than ready for the long journey ahead.
She begins her campaign at the 2025 Kroger Queen City Championship (Queen City Championship), teeing off on Thursday, September 11, at 1:26 p.m. ET from the tenth tee, alongside Minjee Lee and Lydia Ko.
