A four-way tie for the lead has fashioned atop the 2026 Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout.
The second spherical on Saturday, September 19, 2026 performed dramatically harder than Friday’s opener at Mystic Creek Golf Membership.
In a single day chief Kate Smith-Stroh, No. 2 Race for the Card contender Lauren Olivares, rookie Cholcheva Wongras, and Mariel Galdiano all sit at 4-under 140 heading into Sunday’s remaining spherical.
The Epson Tour occasion contains a $300,000 purse – the second largest purse on the tour – and a chance for gamers to earn precious factors within the Race for the Card on their path to the LPGA Tour.
Admission is free and spectators are welcome. Sunday’s remaining spherical begins at roughly 7:30 a.m. Closing Ceremony at roughly 3:30 p.m.
Regardless of a shorter, 6,431-yard setup for Spherical 2 scoring bought considerably more durable throughout the board. Smith-Stroh, who opened with a 7-under 65, couldn’t maintain that tempo and shot 3-over 75 — a 10-shot swing that also leaves her tied for the lead solely as a result of a lot of the remainder of the sector additionally fell again.
Olivares added a good par 72 to her opening 68 to remain within the tie, whereas Galdiano was one of many day’s finest tales, following a gap 71 with a 3-under 69 to climb right into a share of the lead.
Wongras, a 19-year-old rookie from Thailand, additionally moved up with a 1-under 71, backing up her opening 69. She already has an Epson Tour win this season, having set the tour’s 72-hole scoring document on the Reliance Matrix Championship in Might.
Galdiano, a UCLA product from Honolulu, Hawaii, has 11 profession top-10 finishes and $243.2K in official profession earnings since becoming a member of the Epson Tour in 2022; she is chasing her first Epson Tour title after making her LPGA Tour debut in 2025.
A number of different gamers who contended on Friday misplaced vital floor on a day when Mystic Creek gave up far fewer birdies than it did to open the match.
Samantha Wagner slipped to 2-under 142 after a 2-over 74. Kaleigh Telfer, Friday’s outright runner-up at 6-under 66, shot 5-over 77 within the second spherical to fall to 1-under. Bianca Pagdanganan had the hardest day of the group, following her opening 4-under 68 with a 7-over 79 to fall to 3-over 147.
The second spherical additionally produced the spotlight of the week: Jennifer Chang made a hole-in-one on the par-3 sixteenth gap, the primary ace of her skilled profession.
She hit a 5-hybrid into the opening and watched it land, take a small hop to the precise, and drop. “It was cool,” she mentioned afterward, including that she tried to maintain a good keel with a few holes nonetheless to play.
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