AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Maria Jose Marin allowed herself to picture what it would be like to walk up the 18th hole as the first Colombian winner at Augusta National, and it was everything she dreamed.
Asterisk Talley never imagined the nightmare that helped make it possible Saturday in the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
Marin stuck to her plan of staying close until a moment that changed everything with shocking swiftness -- her changing her mind and going for the green on the par-5 13th for a go-ahead birdie, and Talley adding to the sad history of collapses on the back nine at the home of the Masters.
"I just reminded myself that I had to stay really, really patient because anything can happen out here," Marin said after closing with a 4-under 68 for a four-shot victory. "When that last putt sank in, I just thought to myself, 'Well, I made it.' All of my hard work has paid off, and I'm just extremely proud of myself."
Talley was devastated. The 17-year-old Californian twice went from the back bunker into Rae's Creek for a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 12th hole. That allowed Marin to go from a tight contest to a five-shot lead.
Talley, who didn't make her first bogey of the...
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