USA wins Curtis Cup after historic efficiency from faculty star

On Sunday, Los Angeles added a brand new Farah to stroll of fame.

Her title was Farah O’Keefe, and he or she was making the painstakingly lengthy stroll from the seventeenth inexperienced to greet her teammates after maybe one of the best week of her life. And although she regarded each bit the terrifying famous person who’d completely dominated Nice Britain & Eire to the tune of 5 factors and a triumphant victory at Bel-Air Nation Membership, it was the fist pump after her putt fell on the seventeenth to win the Cup that informed the entire story.

O’Keefe, a junior on the College of Texas and top-of-the-line collegiate golfers on the earth, carried the Individuals to a victory at this 44th playing of the Curtis Cup — the biennial match play competitors that serves as girls’s golf’s counter to the Walker Cup. All week lengthy, she regarded the a part of a participant contemporary off an NCAA particular person title and a U.S. Girls’s Open begin … and sure to waste little time making her method to the LPGA at any time when her time at Texas is up.

“It’s a whole lot of golf. I’ve performed a whole lot of golf within the final month and a half. It’s actually type of ridiculous, actually since SECs,” O’Keefe stated Saturday. “That is what I like to do, and that is my ardour. Despite the fact that my physique is hurting and all the pieces is feeling type of outdated, I’m nonetheless having fun with it, and I believe I’m operating on a bit of little bit of adrenaline.”

Ultimately, she completed 5-0-0, good for high billing on an American facet that featured no scarcity of gifted kids, together with novice star Asterisk Talley. O’Keefe’s Individuals fended off a late Saturday cost by the GB&I with a forceful end in Sunday Singles, profitable the final six of eight matches to clinch a 13-7 victory and increasing the American facet’s long-running dominance within the all-important last day format. For the reason that Curtis Cup went to a three-day format, the Individuals are beating the GB&I 46.5-23.5 within the singles session. The Individuals have additionally gained 4 of the final 5 cups.

“I believe it was all about perspective,” stated Talley. “You’re feeling the adrenaline on the market, so that you don’t get drained an excessive amount of. However if you do, you’re identical to, man, it’s at all times nice to be out right here with family and friends. I believe it’s nice to play golf every single day for a dwelling. You at all times must maintain that in perspective. Not everyone will get to do this. It’s important to be grateful.”

Ultimately, there was loads to be thankful for on the U.S. facet after clinching a victory to return the Cup to American soil. Solely the top-two billings on the GB&I facet, Sophia Fullbrook and Endurance Rhodes, managed to ship victories on the ultimate day because the American wave rolled in at Bel-Air, and as Farah O’Keefe was topped because the match’s undisputed winner. The joy carried all the best way to the workforce room for the American facet, which was nonetheless abuzz even because the night rolled in to Hollywood.

“I’m so over the moon,” Jasmine Woo, one other victorious American, stated. “I don’t know find out how to really feel proper now.”

On Sunday night and for the following two years no less than, the reply is evident: She will really feel like a champion.