There could come a day when Asterisk Talley appears again and laughs.
The braces and bands, pony-tail braid and bracelet – and the bravado – it would all elicit a head shake and a flushed face, like most of us when wanting again on ourselves as teenagers.
For now, although, it’s only a sense of awe – at the very least on our finish.
For her, it’s extra like, “simply keep within the zone.”
Talley shot 1-over 71 Friday on the U.S. Girls’s Open. Much more spectacular, it got here on the heels of a gap 70, on a day through which solely 4 gamers shot within the 60s, a day through which one-name wonders Nelly, Rose and Lydia all shot 80.
Right here’s Asterisk, 1 over par for the championship and simply two off the lead, sitting on the set of “Stay From” Friday afternoon and reviewing her spherical whereas the hosts plead along with her highschool academics to present her just a little leeway along with her homework.
“I’ve a bunch,” Talley, a freshman at Chowchilla Excessive in central California, mentioned, “and it’s all due right now. That’s most likely not going to get accomplished right now.”
Should you weren’t wanting on the braces and and so on., however watching her play; if you happen to weren’t listening to her interviews, however listening to what she mentioned; you’d consider her veteran, and also you’d do properly to consider her a severe contender at Lancaster Nation Membership.
Talley, in what appears like a U.S. Open from days lengthy earlier than she was born, had two bogeys and a birdie on Friday. “Should you make a bogey right here and there, that’s OK,” she mentioned. “Nothing greater than a bogey is nice.”
