Korean golfer Lee Dong-eun / Courtesy of KLPGA
Three Korean gamers are poised for his or her LPGA Tour playing cards for the 2026 season with yet another spherical to play on the weather-interrupted qualifying match.
Korea LPGA (KLPGA) Tour star Lee Dong-eun is the highest Korean at Magnolia Grove in Cellular, Alabama, the place she is alone in fourth place at nine-under on the LPGA Q-Collection with the ultimate spherical suspended attributable to darkness at 4:15 p.m. Monday (native time).
Lee was main the match on the conclusion of the third spherical earlier within the day at 10-under 204, however slipped from the highest after making two bogeys and a birdie over her first seven holes of the fourth spherical earlier than play was suspended.
The highest 25 gamers and ties on the finish will earn their LPGA playing cards for 2026. With inclement climate situations having induced disruption in the beginning of the match and once more within the third spherical, the LPGA has determined to shorten the Q-Collection from 90 holes to 72 holes.
Lee gained her maiden KLPGA title at a significant, the Korea Girls’s Open Golf Championship, in June this yr. The 21-year-old led the KLPGA Tour by averaging 261.1 yards off the tee in 2025.
Juniper Jang and Joo Soo-bin had been the next-best Koreans, as they had been tied for eighth place at seven-under. Jang, who beforehand glided by her Korean first identify Hyo-joon, had gone two-under by way of 10 holes within the fourth spherical, whereas Joo had been one below by way of seven holes Monday earlier than the suspension.
Each performed on the LPGA Tour this yr after first becoming a member of the circuit in 2023. Jang, 22, missed 9 cuts in 15 begins with no top-10s. The 21-year-old Joo performed in 20 tournaments and in addition missed 9 cuts with out recording a top-10 end.
No different Korean was inside the highest 25 on the time of stoppage. The projected cutline was at four-under, with 4 gamers tied for twenty third with that rating, together with Hinako Shibuno of Japan, the 2019 AIG Girls’s British Open champion.
One other main champion from 2019, the U.S. Girls’s Open winner Lee Jeong-eun, was tied for thirty ninth at one-under. The Korean had been tied for nineteenth by way of three rounds however dropped out of the highest 25 after going three-over by way of 11 holes within the ultimate spherical.
