Wearing "Play for Her" pink shirts commemorating Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Cardinal began the day with a seven-shot lead over San Jose State and stretched the margin of victory to 10 over the Spartans and Iowa State with a solid 4-under 280 on a sunny but crisp Sunday in the Bay Area.
Texas (-1) was the only other team in the field that managed to finish in red numbers.
Three golfers finished at 5-under 208, including Georgia's Jenny Bae, who turned in the low round of the day with a 5-under 66 to move 13 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for fourth.
Starting on the 12th hole, Bae birdied five of her first six holes and got it to 7-under on the day with two more birdies on hole Nos. 8 and 11. Her only hiccup of the day came on the tricky par 4 ninth (her 16th) where she made a double bogey.
Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn of Iowa State and Angela Heo of Texas were also part of the pack to finish at 5-under. The Cyclones more than held their own in a field that featured seven teams listed inside the Golfweek/Sagarin Top-25 rankings.
Zhang began her round with an uncharacteristic bogey on Stanford Golf Course's inviting par-5 first but she quickly righted her ship with a birdie on the second. She moved to 3-under on the day with birdies on holes Nos. 7, 10 and 13 and cruised home with a 2-under round of 69.
Zhang, the top-ranked female amateur in the world, carried the Cardinal all weekend. The only other Stanford player who managed to finish under par was junior Sadie Englemann, who shot a 4-under 67 on Friday en route to finishing tied for 13th place at 1-under 212. Senior Brooke Seay finished with a 3-under 68, her best round of the season to date while Rachel Heck closed with a 1-under 70
Stanford will close out its fall schedule at the Pac-12 Preview which gets underway on Oct. 31.
