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USA Today
14-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Everything to know about the 2025 U.S. Girls' Junior at Atlanta Athletic Club
It's time once again for the biggest junior event in girls golf. The 2025 U.S. Girls' Junior is set to begin Monday at Atlanta Athletic Club's Riverside Course in Johns Creek, Georgia. The field of 156 golfers will compete in just the second U.S. Girls' Junior in Georgia. It's the 76th playing of the championship. Last year, Rianne Malixi avenged her runner-up finish in 2023 to defeat Asterisk Talley 8 and 7 at El Caballero Country Club in California. It was the championship's largest margin of victory since it went to a 36-hole final in 2006. Malixi also defeated Talley in the U.S. Women's Amateur final 22 days later, the first time two players met in a U.S. Women's Am and U.S. Girls' Junior title match in the same calendar year. Here's everything you need to know for the 2025 U.S. Girls' Junior. Atlanta Athletic Club yardage book OUT: 3,103 yards (Par 35) IN: 3,209 yards (Par 36) TOTAL: 6,312 yards (Par 71) Where to watch U.S. Girls' Junior 2025, TV information Players to watch at U.S. Girls' Junior 2025 Nikki Oh: Member of the U.S. National Junior Team; daughter of 1993 U.S. Open qualifier (at 16 years old) and current teaching pro Ted Oh Asterisk Talley: Finished runner-up in the U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Amateur in 2024; won U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball in 2024; made 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup team Scarlett Schremmer: Reached the Round of 16 in last year's U.S. Girls' Junior and U.S. Women's Amateur. Signed with Texas A&M U.S. Girls' Junior field facts Youngest competitor: Bella Simoes, of Lake Worth, Florida, 11 years, 11 months, 11 days old. Oldest competitor: Morgan Rupp, of Marion, Iowa,18 years, 11 months and 19 days old. Average age: 16.42 Field breakdown by age: International: There are 16 countries represented: Australia (6), Bolivia (1), Canada (10), Chinese Taipei (2), Colombia (3), Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), Lebanon (1), Mexico (3), China (5), Korea (1), Singapore (1), Sri Lanka (1), Thailand (6), United States (111), Venezuela (1) States represented: There are 37 states represented: Alabama (4), Arizona (2), California (25), Colorado (3), Connecticut (2), Delaware (1), Florida (11), Georgia (3), Hawaii (2), Idaho (1), Illinois (2), Indiana (1), Iowa (1), Kansas (1), Kentucky (2), Louisiana (1), Maryland (1), Michigan (2), Minnesota (2), Mississippi (2), Missouri (3), Montana (1), Nebraska (1), New Hampshire (1), New Jersey (6), New York (4), North Carolina (3), Oklahoma (1), Oregon (3), Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina (2), Tennessee (1), Texas (7), Utah (1), Virginia (1), Washington (3), Wisconsin (1) USGA Champions (4): Sarah Lim (2024 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball), Asterisk Talley (2024 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball), Natalie Yen (2025 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball), Asia Young (2025 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball) USGA runners-up (3): Brynn Kort (2024 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball), Athena Singh (2025 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball), Asterisk Talley (2024 U.S. Girls' Junior, 2024 U.S. Women's Amateur) Seven players are in the top 100 of the Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking as of July 9: What winner of U.S. Girls' Junior receives What is the format at the U.S. Girls' Junior?
USA Today
15-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oregon duo wins U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball, earns spots into U.S. Women's Am at Bandon
Oregon duo wins U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball, earns spots into U.S. Women's Am at Bandon The kids are alright. For a fifth year in a row, a pair of teenagers has teamed up to win the 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball. It's only the 10th year for this U.S. Golf Association event but a clear trend has emergerd with this latest win by Natalie Yen, 18, of West Linn, Oregon, and Asia Young, 16, of Bend, Oregon. The duo won 5 and 3, the second-largest margin in this event's final, over Athena Singh and Keira Yun, both 17, on Wednesday at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club in Nichols Hills, Oklahoma. With this final matchup, either team winning would have meant another teenage duo claiming the crowd. "I think overall, we trust each other to play our games, and we know we're trying our best,' said the Texas A&M-bound Yen. "At the end of the day, I think we both know that we're both able to score.' After reaching the par-5 fifth in two shots and making birdie, the Oregon pair took a 3 up lead. They followed that with a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 6 to go 4 up. Singh and Yun won the 14th hole, the only hole they would win in the final. The match ended on the par-3 15th after Young nearly made an ace, the ball almost going jar before rolling out to about 15 feet. Young then made the birdie to close it out. The pair later posed for photos with the trophy as well as No. 15 hole flags to signify where they won the match. In addition to being exempt for this event for the next 10 years provided the duo stays together, Yen and Young also have earned spots into the 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur, being played this year at Bandon Dunes in their homestate of Oregon, as well as the U.S. Girls Junior Amateur at Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia. The USGA notes that Yen and Young are the 749th and 750th unique champions in the organization's history dating back to 1895.
