55 ANNIKA WAPT Players Advance to LPGA Q-Series Qualifying Stage
Tiffany Le earns medalist honors in California, and Alison Muirhead shares medalist honors in Texas, as 43 tour members advance through Pre-Qualifying
DALLAS, Texas — The ANNIKA Women's All Pro Tour will send 55 players to the Qualifying Stage of the 2026 LPGA Q-Series after 43 tour members advanced through last week's Pre-Qualifying Stage in California, Florida and Texas. They join the tour's top five in the Callaway Race to Qualifying, who earned automatic spots in the Qualifying Stage, and seven tour members who qualified through their standing in the top 125 of the Epson Tour's Race for the Card.
A total of 104 players advanced from the three Pre-Qualifying sites, and 43 of them, about 41 percent, came from the ANNIKA WAPT. The tour's strongest showing was at TPC Houston, where 15 of the 28 players who advanced were WAPT members.
Tiffany Le, sixth in the Callaway Race to Qualifying, led the way with a wire-to-wire performance at Indian Wells Country Club. She shot three straight rounds of 67 to finish at 15-under 201, one stroke ahead of the field. Fellow WAPT players Dianna Lee (3rd, -11) and Ali Mulhall (4th, -10) also finished in the top five in California.
In Texas, Alison Muirhead, ninth on the points list, posted 10-under 206 at TPC Houston's Pecan Course to share medalist honors. At LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Maria Bohorquez finished second at 11-under 205, and Rachel Rohanna finished T5.
Emma Bunch, Katie Lu, Kate Villegas, Tillie Claggett and Maisie Filler finished in the top five of the Callaway Race to Qualifying and skipped the Pre-Qualifying Stage entirely. That benefit is one of the tour's key pathways to the LPGA.
The tour's reach also extends to the Epson Tour. Lauryn Nguyen, Jackie Lucena, Rylee Suttor, Yue Zhang, Sadie Englemann, Katherine Hollern and Alyaa Abdulghany all rank inside the top 125 of the Race for the Card standings, which earned them their spots in the Qualifying Stage. Nguyen leads the group at 12th and is in position to earn an LPGA Tour card for 2027 heading into this week's Epson Tour Championship, October 1-4 at Indian Wells Golf Resort.
The Qualifying Stage will be held October 13-16 at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Venice, FL.
ANNIKA WAPT Players Advancing to the Qualifying Stage
Automatic qualifiers (Callaway Race to Qualifying Top 5): Emma Bunch, Katie Lu, Kate Villegas, Tillie Claggett, Maisie Filler
Epson Tour Race for the Card top 125 (7): Lauryn Nguyen (12), Jackie Lucena (62), Rylee Suttor (64), Yue Zhang (85), Sadie Englemann (90), Katherine Hollern (94), Alyaa Abdulghany (122)
California – Indian Wells Country Club (15): Tiffany Le (1), Dianna Lee (3), Ali Mulhall (4), Amy DeKock (T6), Kaylyn Noh (T15), Amanda Kim (T18), Jasmine Lew (T18), YounSoo Ju (T22), Lauren Dickey (T26), Taglao Jeeravivitaporn (T26), Milagros Chaves (T30), Nikita Arjun (T30), Kaitlyn Zermeño Smith (T30), Victoria Gailey (T38), Madelyn Gamble (T38)
Florida – LPGA International, Jones Course (13): Maria Bohorquez (2), Rachel Rohanna (T5), Mallory Fobes (T9), Isabella Rawl (T9), Addison Klonowski (a) (T13), Ana Jimenez (T13), Cynthia Tu (T13), Natasha Kiel (T21), Caroline Patterson (T21), Claire Vermette (T29), Siuue Wu (T29), Michaela Morard (T32), Maya Hunter (T32)
Texas – TPC Houston, Pecan Course (15): Alison Muirhead (T1), Cory Lopez (T6), Angela Heo (T8), Savannah Barber (T8), Reagan Chaney (T10), Abbey Daniel (T10), Hunter Nugent (T12), Zoe Slaughter (T12), Bohyun Park (T12), Isabelle Lynch (T16), Jinna Boonbumroongsuk (T16), Hannah Arnold (T20), Morgan Miller (T22), Hanna Alberto (T22), Ellie Roth (T22)
About the ANNIKA Women's All Pro Tour
The ANNIKA Women’s All Pro Tour’s mission is to develop the next generation of the LPGA by providing professionals the strongest competition possible. Through the ANNIKA WAPT, we provide a clear Path of the Pros for those aspiring to encompass the meaning of the word “professional”, on and off the course.
Travis Humphrey
ANNIKA WAPT Media & Communications
