Asterisk Talley Just Made ANWA History With Her Fourth Consecutive Round in the 60s

EVANS, Ga. — What I love the most about this game is that each week, every event brings a new Cinderella story to fall in love with. There's no shortage of stories or talent in golf, and that's never more true than at the Augusta National Women's Amateur.

Except the belle of the ball at this year's championship isn't an unfamiliar face or an underdog. She's actually a flower that's been blooming for quite a while.

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Asterisk Talley has skyrocketed to stardom since we first met her at Lancaster, PA for the 2024 U.S. Women's Open, and her foot has been on the gas ever since.

In 2024 alone she was the runner-up at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, the runner-up at the U.S. Girls Junior, a member of U.S. National Junior Team, tied for 8th in the at Augusta National Women’s Amateur, became the 2024 Invitational at Sage Valley champion and AJGA PING Invitational champion.

Asterisk Talley of United States with her caddie on the No. 9 hole during a practice round prior to the Augusta National Women's Amateur at Champions Retreat Golf Club, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Photo courtesy of Augusta National/David Paul Morris.

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She then, backed up her breakout year with another solid push in '25 with a runner up finish at ANWA, while also playing in a handful of LPGA events—using those experiences as building blocks towards her future.

Flash forward to present day, the second round of the 2026 ANWA and Talley is setting the tone for the rest of the field in major way.

She came out swinging with a 6-under round of 66 on Thursday, and followed that up with a 5-under 67—going squeaky clean with zero bogeys on her score card. The first player in ANWA history to do so.

But despite being blemish-free, Talley still felt like she left some shots out there. "I just think I kind of had some missed opportunities, and just kind of really with the approaches, it wasn't really too many missed putts. It was kind of just missed greens and then it was kind of dumb, but yeah, other than that, it was pretty well," she said after her round.

When she was told that she was the only one to be bogey free, she had such a teenage answer, "[That's] pretty cool."