{"id":808136,"date":"2026-08-09T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/808136\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:48:10","slug":"no-1-ranked-asterisk-talley-vs-co-medalist-anna-iwanaga-in-u-s-womens-am-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/808136\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1-ranked Asterisk Talley vs. co-medalist Anna Iwanaga in U.S. Women&#8217;s Am final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1-ranked junior Asterisk Talley will face Anna Iwanaga, this week\u2019s co-medalist, in the 36-hole final of the U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur.<\/p>\n<p>Talley and Iwanaga both won their semifinal matches, 6 and 4, when play resumed Sunday morning at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Following several weather suspensions and delays throughout the week, Talley and Iwanaga made it through nine holes of the semis on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Talley was 3 up over Lily Peng and Iwanaga was 3 up over Gabriella Nicastro.<\/p>\n<p>Iwanaga came out hot after sun rise, making birdie on Nos. 11-14 to close out her match. Talley, likewise, made three quick birdies to advance. Talley was the runner-up two years ago, falling to Rianne Malixi in the finals, 3 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>Golf Channel will have live coverage of the championship match beginning at 3 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur - Championship Match\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/watch\/live\/u-s-womens-amateur-championship-match\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Image for U.S. Women's Amateur - Championship Match\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786297690_317_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tune into the Championship Match from the U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1-ranked junior Asterisk Talley will face Anna Iwanaga, this week\u2019s co-medalist, in the 36-hole final of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-808136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}