Texas junior Farah O’Keefe went 5-0-0 in one Curtis Cup match, becoming the fourth player to do it in the event’s history, as the United States beat Great Britain and Ireland 13-7 at Bel-Air Country Club.
At Bel-Air Country Club on Sunday, Farah O’Keefe didn’t just help the United States pull ahead — she piled on the kind of result that turns a competition into a statement.
The Texas junior completed a perfect match to become the fourth player in Curtis Cup history to win five times in one match. Her performance helped the Americans rout Great Britain and Ireland 13-7.
The U.S. entered Sunday’s finish with a series lead of 32-9-3, a mark that dates back to 1932. But the afternoon belonged to the players on the course, and O’Keefe’s day closed out the rout in the most precise way.
After Kiara Romero put the United States over the top, O’Keefe finished off a 2-and-1 victory over Charlotte Naughton. With that win, she joined Americans Stacy Lewis (2008) and Kristin Gillman (2018), along with GB&I’s Bronte Law (2016), as the only players to go 5-0-0.
O’Keefe’s form has carried far beyond the amateur stage this year. She was the low amateur at The Chevron Championship, the first LPGA major of the year. She also took the NCAA individual title last month at La Costa.
Romero provided the deciding point, topping Isla McDonald-O’Brien 1 up. Earlier, Jasmine Koo and Asterisk Talley won matches for the United States. Koo beat Nellie Ong 1 up, and Talley—at 17 years old—defeated Davina Xanh 2 and 1.
In the final matches, Anna Davis beat Beth Coulter 4 and 3, and Kary Hollenbaugh outlasted GB&I’s Lily Hirst 1 up.
Great Britain and Ireland didn’t fall quietly. Patience Rhodes and Sophia Fullbrook won the opening two matches to tie it at 7, setting up the tension that the U.S. later broke open. Once the Americans built control, they never relinquished it.
The momentum also sits in the wider Curtis Cup ledger. In 2024 at Sunningdale in England, GB&I won 10 1/2-9 1/2. The 2028 matches are set for Royal Dornoch in Scotland, and the 2030 event is scheduled for National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York.
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5-0-0 is crazy… golf scoring still confuses me though
So she won 5 matches in one day? That’s wild. Also Bel-Air Country Club sounds expensive like her clothes cost more than my rent.
I thought the Curtis Cup was like the Ryder Cup for pros?? But it says amateur and NCAA and LPGA major and I’m just lost. Either way 13-7 feels like they totally ran away with it. Who even is Charlotte Naughton, does she still play?
13-7 doesn’t sound that dominant until you realize the U.S. was up like 32-9-3 since forever? That line about 1932 just made my head spin. Curtis Cup always seems political too, like GB&I was “quiet” but then suddenly wasn’t quiet… whatever that means.