Four previous USGA championship have been hosted at Erin Hills.
The U.S. Golf Association announced Wisconsin’s Erin Hills will host five USGA amateur championships over the next 15 years. This in addition to the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open, scheduled for May 28-June 1.
The new slate of championships includes the following: 2027 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, 2030 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball, 2033 U.S. Women’s Amateur, 2035 U.S. Amateur and 2039 U.S. Junior Amateur.
A general view of the 15th green during previews for the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills Golf Course on September 10, 2024 in Erin, Wisconsin. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
Four previous USGA championship have been hosted at Erin Hills, including the 2017 U.S. Open won by Brooks Koepka.
Erin Hills, located in Erin, Wisconsin, 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee, was designed by Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry and Ron Whitten and opened in 2006. The daily-fee course joins a list of 13 others that have hosted or will host the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur.
The upcoming Four-Ball Championships and U.S. Women’s Amateur mark the first time these championships will be held in the Badger State.
Malixi is the second player ever to win the Women’s Amateur and Girls’ Junior in the same year.
TULSA, Okla. — Rianne Malixi doesn’t show much emotion, but there’s a fire within that burns strong enough to conquer any obstacle.
It didn’t used to be like that. Malixi, a 17-year-old from the Philippines, admits she used to be self-deprecating. When things weren’t going her way on the golf course, she wouldn’t make anything easier for herself.
But everything, as she says, is all about perspective. And in the past 22 days, her perspective, and that of those who follow amateur golf, knows she’s one of the best young players in the game.
Malixi topped Asterisk Talley 3 and 2 on Sunday to win the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in historic fashion. Malixi was patient, riding the waves of momentum all day until she reached the summit: a second USGA championship in the span of 22 days. Four straight birdies from Nos. 13-16 were the dagger in a two-day historic marathon.
“It feels so surreal right now,” Malixi said. “It’s just an honor.”
SHE DID IT… AGAIN! 🏆🏆
Just three weeks after winning the U.S. Girls’ Junior, Rianne Malixi is the U.S. Women’s Amateur champion! pic.twitter.com/pTM1tLJj2q
Three weeks ago and 1,350 miles away from Southern Hills, Malixi beat Talley, a 15-year-old from California who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball earlier this year, 8 and 7 in the championship match of the U.S. Girls’ Junior, a record margin of victory. On Sunday at the famed Perry Maxwell design, Malixi beat Talley again, this time in one of the oldest amateur championships in golf.
Malixi is the second player ever to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior in the same year, joining Eun Jeong Seong in 2016. Her and Talley are also the first duo to meet up in the championship match of both events ever, let alone in the same year. She’s also the first player from the Philippines to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
Malixi, a Duke commit in the 2025 class, went 12-0 in USGA match play events this year. Talley went 15-2, but at least this year, Malixi proved her kryptonite.
“I love Asterisk,” said Malixi, who also roomed with Talley at the Junior Invitational earlier this year, an event Talley won and Malixi placed second. “Developing a relationship with her has just been so awesome. She’s just a great player and a great person, as well.”
Throughout the duration of their 36-hole championship match, Malixi and Talley had numerous conversations, even if it was just small talk. The first 18 holes were played Saturday afternoon because of rain and storms in the Tulsa area on Sunday morning, with Talley taking a 1 up lead into the overnight intermission.
On the first hole Sunday, Talley won with a par, taking a 2 up lead. But Malixi, as calm as she looked on the outside, remained positive on the inside, one of the changes her dad tried to implement when he noticed his daughter’s mental game wasn’t at a championship level.
Malixi won four straight holes, and after Talley made a 40-foot bomb for birdie on the par-4 seventh, Malixi responded with a 15-foot make of her own. She then won another hole and was 3 up with 10 holes to play.
Rianne Malixi reacts after winning the fifth hole during the final match of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)
But in a match of runs, even extending to Saturday afternoon, Talley responded. She won three straight holes, and on the par-4 12th and the match tied, Talley had a short birdie putt to take a 1 up lead with five to play.
She made the stroke, a bit too firm, and the ball lipped out.
“I knew she was going to make it,” Malixi said. “It’s why I went for it and hit it four or five feet past the hole. Then I was surprised she missed it. Then I was like, ‘Oh, we have to make this putt.”
Talley left the door open. Malixi slammed it shut.
On the par-5 13th, Malixi blasted her tee shot. It rolled out roughly 75 yards after landing on a downslope and sprinting down the fairway. She went for the green in two, landing 30 feet beyond the flag. Talley had a birdie look but missed. Malixi’s eagle look didn’t quite reach the hole, but birdie was conceded.
“I feel like she just — she hit some good shots. I missed a short putt on 12. I just hit it too hard. Maybe just misread it a little bit,” Talley said. “And then she got on in two on 13. I couldn’t really help she made a birdie there. I missed another makable one on that hole. I feel like that’s what kind of switched her momentum, seeing me miss a short putt and her just having an easy birdie.”
On the par-3 14th hole, Malixi found the green and left herself 25 feet for birdie. Talley’s tee shot ended up in a bunker, and her sand shot rolled out just over the green. Her comeback attempt didn’t matter because Malixi made yet another birdie.
Rianne Mikhaela Malixi and Asterisk Talley hug after Rianne Mikhaela Malixi wins their match during the final match of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)
Then on 15, the most difficult green at Southern Hills, Malixi again found the fairway then green. As Talley’s birdie attempts didn’t quite break enough, Malixi’s shot found the center of the cup again.
3 up with three to play, Malixi and Talley were both greenside in two on the par-5 16th, and Talley’s chip shot rolled out 4 feet past the hole. Malixi, a savant from the bunkers all week, hit her sandy to roughly the same distance below the hole.
Talley poured in her putt, but Malixi responded and did the same.
Four straight birdies, and a special hug with Talley, before the celebration began.
Rianne Malixi makes history! She wins the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills, only 22 days after winning the U.S. Girls’ Junior. Only the second person to win both in the same year pic.twitter.com/P3rzURN4OG
“Honestly I just wanted to play good golf,” Malixi said of her goals this year. “That’s it. I wasn’t expecting to win (the) Australian Master of the Amateurs in January, and then won U.S. Girls last month and then this one. I was like so surprised. Even though I was playing good golf, I was just not expecting it.”
Three weeks ago in California, Malixi dominated at the U.S. Girls’ Junior, making 14 birdies over 28 holes in the final. This week, Southern Hills provided a test she hadn’t faced yet, and she still conquered the course in magisterial fashion, and now she’s on top of the amateur world.
“I’m thankful for my dad who kept on pushing me beyond my limits,” Malixi said. “Everything is just all about perspective, and I kind of realized that at the beginning of the year. Yeah, everything just went skyrocket.”
Malixi and Talley advanced to the championship match of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur, which will begin Saturday afternoon at 2:10 p.m. ET and continue Sunday, tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. ET. The first 18 holes were moved to Saturday because of anticipated weather Sunday in the Tulsa area, meaning there will be a rare break between play Saturday night.
It is believed to be the first time in USGA history the championship match of the U.S. Women’s Amateur will begin on Saturday. It’s also the first time in 70 years the final match will be contested over two days.
That’s not the only historic moment. Malixi and Talley are the first pair in USGA history to face off in the finals of the U.S. Girls’ Junior and U.S. Women’s Amateur. Not just in a calendar year, ever. There has never been a repeat championship match in the U.S. Women’s Amateur from a duo that made the championship in the U.S. Girls’ Junior, too.
Rianne Malixi!! Birdies 18 to advance to the championship match.
First time in USGA history that there will be the same championship match in the U.S. Girls’ Junior and U.S. Women’s Amateur ever, let alone the same year. History at Southern Hills pic.twitter.com/mZEsQdbCz1
Malixi, a Duke commit, is now 11-0 in USGA match play events, and she’s on the verge of becoming the second player ever to win the U.S. Girls’ Junior and the U.S. Women’s Amateur in the same year. She topped rising Arkansas senior Kendall Todd 1 up after birdies to win the 17th and 18th holes.
Now, a historic final is on tap at Southern Hills.
Marin tried to tough it out, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
TULSA, Okla. — She tried to tough it out, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
Maria Jose Marin, the medalist at the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur, conceded her semifinal match against Asterisk Talley on Saturday morning at Southern Hills Country Club because of a left leg injury. Shortly after hitting her second shot on the par-5 13th hole, Marin went down in the fairway in pain and didn’t move for nearly 15 minutes.
USGA medical personnel, her coach at Arkansas and others surrounded Marin, and they taped up her leg before she stood up and attempted to continue play. She was 1 down to Talley, who waited anxiously at the 13th green.
Medical just showed up. Dealing with something along the outside of her left knee and thigh. Been sitting in the fairway about 10 minutes now pic.twitter.com/TvxMmzOshu
Marin and Talley halved the 13th with bogeys, and then Marin received more treatment on a bench adjacent to the 14th tee. Trainers worked on her left leg near the knee.
After another lengthy delay, she teed off on the par-3, and her ball rolled just off the back of the putting surface. She was able to earn a par and another halve, but the 15th is where things ended.
She grimaced in pain on her tee shot, which sailed way right into the trees. She was behind a large trunk for her second shot, stood over it a while and attempted to hit a recovery shot, but she conceded the match shortly after.
Maria Jose Marin and Asterisk Talley hug after Maria Jose Marin concedes on the 15th hole during the semifinals of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)
Marin, a rising sophomore at Arkansas, was playing in her first U.S. Women’s Amateur this week.
Weather is adjusting the U.S. Women’s Amateur schedule.
TULSA, Okla. — There has been a change in the schedule for the final two days of the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
Because of anticipated weather in Oklahoma on Sunday, the championship match, which is 36 holes, will begin Saturday afternoon after the conclusion of the 18-hole semifinals, which are being moved to Saturday morning. The final 18 holes of the championship match will then be contested Sunday.
The semifinals will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET Saturday, with the second match going off at 8:45 a.m. ET. Then, after both matches have completed, there will be a break and then first 18 holes of the championship match will be contested in the afternoon, planning to begin at 2:30 p.m. ET, but that time may change.
Come Sunday, there will be 18 holes remaining to crown a U.S. Women’s Amateur champion. A time has not been set for the resumption of play Sunday morning but will go when the weather allows.
“I kind of got roped into it at the last minute. I’m really glad I did.”
TULSA, Okla. — Jenni Roller wanted to play in her hometown U.S. Women’s Amateur. When she didn’t get through qualifying, she offered to caddie for a friend to stay involved in the event.
Then that fell through.
Enter Anna Davis.
The 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion is no stranger to having her twin brother, Billy, on the bag. However, after playing for three straight weeks, Billy wanted to take some time off before beginning his freshman season at Auburn, where Davis will start her sophomore year this fall.
That left Davis needing a caddie. Enter Roller.
“The caddie master out here called me and asked if I wanted to caddie for Anna Davis,” Roller said, “and I was like, yeah!
“I kind of got roped into it at the last minute. I’m really glad I did.”
Davis is into the quarterfinals at the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in Oklahoma, her second straight year making the final eight. This time, she did it with Roller on the bag, and that partnership has proven vital for Davis.
“She’s great,” Davis said. “We’re kind of the same age. I’ve never had a girl caddie for me who’s the same age as me, too, so it’s been really fun.”
Anna Davis plays her shot on the 14th hole during the first round of stroke play of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)
Roller is a rising junior at Tulsa, a program that has made the national championship each of the past two years. She’s also familiar with Southern Hills, a place where she shot 66 before in a competitive round and practices at from time to time with her Golden Hurricane teammates. She also grew up playing the course and comes from a golfing family.
Her mother, Maggie, is the director of instruction at Cedar Ridge, a country club not far from Southern Hills. Maggie also played collegiately at Tulsa and was teammates with Melissa Luellen, Auburn’s coach. The duo played under Luellen’s mom, Dale McNamara, and won the 1988 national championship while Luellen won the individual title (Those were later vacated because of NCAA violations by the track and field team).
Roller’s brother, JP, also plays collegiately at Kansas State.
“Tulsa played at our regional at Auburn, and (Roller’s) mom came and stayed with our coach,” Davis said. “But I think they’re good buddies. They look like they’re having a good time.”
Davis gave credit to Roller in a post-round TV interview that she has been a huge help for Davis in reading greens, and she did so again in another interview a few minutes later.
For Roller, she’s learning just as much from the World No. 16.
“It’s been a good perspective because when you’re playing golf, you just see your own shots, but I’ve been able to see like, obviously her game and a ton of great players, kind of how they interact with the course,” Roller said. “So I’ve learned a lot.”
Roller said she raves at Davis’ ball-striking abilities and how smart she is plodding around a golf course. Davis said the both think similarly around a golf course.
It’s a partnership that came together on a whim, and it’s one that has them in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
“She’s been great on the bag,” Davis said. “I’ve really enjoyed her.”
TULSA, Okla. — Asterisk Talley is only 15 years old, but don’t let her innocent demeanor fool you. She’s a match-play assassin.
Talley dominated her 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur Round of 16 match on Thursday afternoon, taking down Angela Heo 7 and 6 to move into Friday’s quarterfinals at Southern Hills Country Club. That came on the heels of her 4-and-2 win over Justice Bosio of Australia earlier in the day in the Round of 32.
While it may seem an impressive achievement for someone as young as Talley, it’s just another week this summer for her.
The victory moved Talley to 13-1 in match play in U.S. Golf Association events this year. On top of earning low amateur honors at the U.S. Women’s Open, Talley and partner Sarah Lim won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball at Oak Hills Country Club in Texas, where Talley won five matches.
Then at the U.S. Girls’ Junior at El Caballero Country Club in California, she made the championship match, going 5-1 on the week in match play.
Now at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, she’s 3-0 and the youngest player to advance to match play.
“I feel like just hitting it within like 20 feet and just trying to get on the green and then just, if a one-putt falls you’re doing well, or if you get within 15 feet, you’re doing really good,” Talley said. “You’re not trying to get anywhere close to the hole, you’re just trying to get somewhere on the green, and then if you make a putt, you make a putt, and I feel like I was.
“Sometimes I would get within like 10 feet and then I would just try and make it, and it’s all working out.”
Talley made a name for herself earlier this year when she won the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, leading wire-to-wire. Then she made her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut before dominating the USGA circuit this summer.
“I feel like the best part of match play is you’re just playing the one person, and you don’t have to worry about everybody else,” Talley said. “Especially this morning with the conditions that there were, there was a bunch of wind, and in stroke play you can have someone going off at like 7 a.m. and there’s no wind, no conditions at all, and I feel like it’s great that you can have someone that has the wind, has the conditions that you have when you’re playing them.”
Now, only time will tell if Talley can add to her impressive mark.
Here’s a look at some of the best photos from the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club.
TULSA, Okla. — The best women’s amateur golfers in the world battled it out for the 124th U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club, hosting its 10th USGA championship.
The USGA accepted a record number of entries for both championships in 2023.
The USGA announced Wednesday qualifying sites for the 124th U.S. Women’s Amateur and U.S. Amateur, to be held at Southern Hills Country Club, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Aug. 5-11, and Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, from Aug. 12-18, respectively.
U.S. Amateur local qualifying will be held between June 4 and July 3, with final qualifying between July 15 and July 31. U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifying will be held between June 17 and July 18.
Online entry applications for both championships, as well as the full list of qualifying sites, are available at champ-admin.usga.org. U.S. Amateur entries will close Wednesday, May 29, at 5 p.m. EDT and U.S. Women’s Amateur entries will close Wednesday, June 12, at 5 p.m. EDT.
The USGA accepted a record number of entries for both championships last year. The 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club received 1,679 entries, beating the previous record set in 2021 with 1,650 entries. The 2023 U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills Country Club received 8,253 entries, breaking the previous mark set in 2022 with 7,749 entries.
The USGA announced significant modifications to its amateur championship qualifying model last year for the first time in more than 20 years. These changes will allow USGA championships to retain their openness while ensuring that high-caliber players are provided with ample opportunity to earn a spot in the field, and that qualifying can be conducted at the highest level among growing entries and field sizes.
The most significant revisions are to the U.S. Amateur, which will move from a one-stage, 36-hole qualifying format to a two-stage qualifying format with 45 18-hole local qualifying sites and 19 18-hole final qualifying sites. Other adjustments included modifications to exemptions.
These modifications will result in a net reduction of 94 qualifying sites, while providing more opportunities for players to earn a spot in a USGA championship through expanded exemptions, state/AGA amateur championships and traditional qualifying.
Here are the key events on the amateur schedule in 2024.
What a year it was for amateur golf in 2023.
The best female amateur of all-time, Rose Zhang, capped her career in as strong of fashion as possible, winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and her second straight NCAA Championship. Nick Dunlap won the U.S. Amateur and in the process accomplished something only Tiger Woods had ever done before him: win a U.S. Amateur and a U.S. Junior.
Then there were the American men, which included Dunlap, winning a Walker Cup at St. Andrews and the World Amateur Team Championship in Abu Dhabi.
Amateur golf has never been stronger, and the schedule is looking great for another spectacular year in 2024.
Here are the key events on the amateur schedule in 2024.
