Asterisk Talley begins two-week swing on the LPGA, including a major

Asterisk Talley happens to be a member at El Caballero Country Club, site of this week's JM Eagle LA Championship. It's the start of a two-week swing on the LPGA for the 17-year-old high school junior, who opened with an eventful 2-under 70 that included five birdies, a bogey and a double-bogey. Both Talley and Canadian teen Aphrodite Deng, the top two juniors in the AJGA rankings, are playing the event on sponsor invitations.

"I know it like the back of my hand now," said Talley of El Cab, the site of her runner-up finish at the 2024 U. S. Girls' Junior.

After experiencing heartbreak at the Augusta National Women's Amateur , Talley went back to high school and watched the Masters during class, when she was done with her homework, of course. "I thought the course played a lot different than when we played," said Talley. "Some of the shots they hit they would just bounce and roll off the greens.

I was like, that was not the conditions that we had. " After this week, Talley heads to Texas for the LPGA's first major of the season, the Chevron Championship at Memorial Park in Houston. Talley will play the event on a sponsor exemption, as she did last year.