15-year-old Chowchilla girl headed to historical golf course for tournament

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the past 2 years, we've shown you the emergence of golfing sensation Asterisk Talley.

"I've decidedly gotten taller, truthful it's been an advantage," she said.

The 15-year-old has already won aggregate tournaments, astir notably past summer's Rolex Girls Junior Championship successful South Carolina.

"After that, I conscionable played my champion and I didn't truly person immoderate ace atrocious rounds," she said. "I conscionable kept being accordant with apical teams."

That consistency earned the Chowchilla autochthonal a peculiar invitation to 1 of golf's astir prestigious venues -- a spot to play successful the Augusta National Women's Amateur this April.

"Hearing that quality was beauteous exciting," says her dad, James. "We benignant of held retired to archer her until she got retired school."

"Augusta wasn't truly a large extremity that I had," she said. "It was conscionable retired of reach, from what I thought."

Asterisk has been among the Augusta Azaleas before, competing successful the 2022 drive, spot and putt competition.

She adjacent shook hands with erstwhile Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

"That's truthful peculiar astatine the time, but conscionable getting to play determination would beryllium amazing, and I can't adjacent deliberation of however overmuch amusive I'm going to person erstwhile I really go," she said.

That contention gave her conscionable a sneak peek into Augusta, but this invitation opens up the full course.

It's thing she'll person to bash without 1 of her biggest fans.

"My dad's conscionable bummed that helium doesn't get to watch," Asterisk Talley.

Dad won't beryllium making the travel due to the fact that of work, but her mom, Brandii, volition beryllium determination each measurement of the way.

"He wants maine to bash it connected my own, benignant of measurement up and bash what I person to do," Asterisk said.

Although it's a nationalist signifier with the bulk of the girls successful the tract being older, you ne'er get the consciousness Asterisk is nervous.

She's not going to conscionable participate.

"Winning is, obviously, the goal, erstwhile you spell into immoderate tourney and if you don't deliberation you tin win, you're not going to," she said.

She doesn't person her drivers' licence yet - but she could go the youngest champion successful the event's history.

"No substance what I do, I'm conscionable going to person a large clip conscionable being successful specified a historical people wherever each the top players of each clip person played before," she said.

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