Golfer Lee Dong-eun / Captured from Lee Dong-eun’s Instagram
Korean tour star Lee Dong-eun remained in place to earn LPGA membership for the 2026 season as Mom Nature continued to wreak havoc on the ultimate qualifying occasion in Alabama over the weekend.
The LPGA introduced Sunday (native time) that the 90-hole last stage of the LPGA Q-Sequence will probably be shortened to 72 holes, after inclement climate triggered a second delay for the competitors earlier within the day.
As a consequence of what the LPGA mentioned had been “unplayable course situations,” the third spherical was suspended at 9:05 a.m. native time. Play resumed at 2:30 p.m. however was suspended with gamers having accomplished between 4 and 11 holes.
The beginning of the primary spherical at Magnolia Grove in Cell, Alabama, had been pushed again from Thursday to Friday owing to unhealthy climate.
With the occasion shortened to 4 rounds as an alternative of 5, the LPGA mentioned the aim is to finish play by Tuesday and there will probably be no reduce. The highest 25 gamers and ties on the finish will earn their LPGA playing cards for 2026.
Display captured from the LPGA’s official X web page displaying the newest replace on the standing of the LPGA Q-Sequence, which has been interrupted by inclement climate in Cell, Alabama, Monday, Courtesy of LPGA’s official X
Lee, who gained a Korea LPGA main this 12 months on the Korea Girls’s Open Golf Championship, entered the third spherical in a tie for fourth place at eight-under. She recorded pars on every of the primary 4 holes Sunday earlier than play was suspended.
Juniper Jang, tied for sixteenth place at four-under on the stoppage of the third spherical, is the one different Korean inside the highest 25 for the time being.
Lee Jeong-eun, the 2019 LPGA Rookie of the Yr who gained the U.S. Girls’s Open title that very same season, is tied for twenty seventh at two-under, only one stroke again of seven gamers tied for twentieth place.
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