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Asterisk Talley is no stranger to the spotlight, and she shined once again on one of junior golf's biggest stages.
Talley helped the United States Junior Ryder Cup team knock off Europe 17 ½ to 12 ½ at Nassau Country Club in New York on Thursday, its fourth straight win on American soil, with a big performance in singles. The U.S. now leads the overall series, 8-5. The final 12 matches were originally scheduled for Bethpage Black, site of the 2025 Ryder Cup that begins Friday, but rain and thunderstorms forced the PGA of America to have Nassau, the course where players competed the first two days, host the singles matches.
At the Junior Ryder Cup, teams are comprised of six of the top junior boys and six junior girls from the U.S. and Europe. It began in 1997, and starting in 2023, singles matches began being played at the Ryder Cup host course.
Talley, along with fellow 2027 Stanford commit Anna Fang, went 3-0-1 for the U.S., both of them winning their singles matches as a part of a dominant finishing stretch for the U.S.
The Americans led 10-8 going into the final day, and after a wave of blue bombarded the early leaderboard in singles, the U.S. fought back. It won seven matches and tied another, earning 7 ½ points.
Rayee Fang had the clinching point for the U.S. The 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur semifinalist and U.S. Women's Open qualifier won her match, 4 and 3, against Louise Uma Landgraf.
The U.S. has now won seven of the past eight Junior Ryder Cups.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Behind Asterisk Talley and Anna Fang, United States wins 2025 Junior Ryder Cup
Reporting by Cameron Jourdan, Golfweek / Golfweek
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