Shooting star

SUNNINGDALE, ENGLAND | For Asterisk Talley’s Greek mother, Brandii, to have plucked such a name out of the Hellenic lexicon, she must have had a hunch her child was going to be a star. And that’s exactly what her now-15-year-old daughter has become as she signs autographs with a delightful little asterisk above the “i” for spectators at the Curtis Cup, which matched Great Britain and Ireland against the U.S. over the weekend here at Sunningdale Golf Club.
No one could have looked happier than Talley on the practice days. On Thursday, she and 20-year-old Catherine Park were trying their hand at the alternate-shot format ahead of the Friday and Saturday morning foursomes. As the teenager swung her arms back and forth on her way to the 18th green, she gave her older playing companion a friendly if unnecessary shove up the hill while singing “Murder on the Dance Floor.” (The very title of Sophie Ellis-Baxter’s bouncy tune must have prompted alarm among some nearby GB&I supporters.)
Talley is the same age as another Californian, Lucy L...