Marín wins 2026 ANWA with record 14-under total
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- María José Marín closed with a 4-under 68 at Augusta National to finish at 14-under 202, breaking the ANWA scoring record by two strokes (previous mark: 204 set by Carla Bernat Escuder in 2025).
- Marín trailed 36-hole leader Asterisk Talley by one shot entering Saturday but took control with a birdie on the par-5 13th to seize a four-shot lead.
- Talley, the 17-year-old 2025 ANWA runner-up, unraveled on the 12th hole, hitting two consecutive shots into Rae's Creek and carding a quadruple-bogey 7 that erased a one-shot lead.
- Marín steadied after a bogey on the 15th cut her lead to three, then hit a tee shot to inside 10 feet on the 16th for a bounce-back birdie that restored her four-shot cushion.
- The 19-year-old Marín, the reigning NCAA women's individual champion at Arkansas, became the sixth ANWA champion, joining Jennifer Kupcho, Tsubasa Kajitani, Anna Davis, Rose Zhang, and Lottie Woad.
- Talley had played the first 45 holes without a bogey and had not made her first of the tournament until the 11th hole on Saturday.
Why it matters: Marín's 14-under total resets the ANWA benchmark by two strokes, signaling a rising generation of college-game talent (she's the NCAA individual champ) closing the gap to professional dominance — Talley, meanwhile, becomes the latest in a long line of Augusta leaders undone by Amen Corner nerves, with the consolation that Rory McIlroy turned the same heartbreak into a green jacket.
