Six new players earned their LPGA Tour cards this week at the Epson Tour Championship, played in Indian Wells, California.
Previously, Mirabel Ting, Kaleiya Romero, Lauren Olivares, Annabelle Pancake-Webb, Carla Bernat Escuder, Liqi Zeng, Amari Avery, Cholcheva Wongras and Mariel Galdiano had clinched at least partial status. Each of those nine players earned their full status over the weekend.
That left one more player to earn the 10th and final full card. That went to Reagan Zibilski, who shot the round of the tournament, a nine-under 62, to win the event and move up 27 spots in the standings.
The final five cards place players in category 16, which does not guarantee full status. Those players will shuffle with the top 25 LPGA Tour players that don’t maintain full status at the end of the 2026 season, essentially the No. 101-125 players in the CME Standings.
Those five spots went to Rachel Kuehn, Megha Ganne, Lauryn Nguyen, Megan Schofill and Samantha Wagner.
There are some names that golf fans should be familiar with there. Both Lauryn Nguyen and Rachel Kuehn helped lead their teams, Northwestern and Wake Forest respectively, to Division I National Championships. Megan Schofill and Megha Ganne both won the U.S. Women’s Amatuer championship. Samantha Wagner has previously played on the LPGA Tour where she made seven cuts in 16 starts.
Ganne also won a Division I National Championship at Stanford and was the low amateur at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open.
This is a strong class for the Epson Tour, and many of them have bright LPGA Tour futures ahead of them.
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