Amari Avery – Photo by Max Bechtoldt – Women’s Golf Daily News
The Epson Tour season is under way, and by October of 2026, 15 of the players on the Tour will earn their cards for the 2027 LPGA Tour season. Here is a list of five players to watch on the Epson Tour in 2026:
Amari Avery – At 22-years-old, Amari Avery will enter the Epson Tour season as arguably its biggest star for the third year. The former USC standout has been a known player since her appearance in The Short Game documentary when she was a child. While Avery hasn’t won yet in one and a half seasons, she is fairly consistent and finished just outside the top 15 in the Race for the Card standings in 2025, and may have made it if not for a disastrous third round at the Epson Tour Championship.
Gianna Clemente – Gianna Clemente is the newest in a long line of super young, but extremely talented American players on the Epson Tour. At just 17-years-old, Clemente turned professional in 2025, but enters the Tour with plenty of experience. Clemente won the junior competition at the 2024 Mizuho Americas Open and has a top-five finish in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Clemente even almost won an event on the Epson Tour in 2025, taking Epson Tour Player of the Year Melanie Green to five playoff holes.
Natasha Oon – Former San José State star Natasha Oon is a pretty sad story. She lit up the Epson Tour in 2023, finishing second in total money and earning her LPGA Tour Card alongside some pretty big names in the current game like Gabi Ruffels and Auston Kim. That year, Oon had eight top-10 finishes and one win with four additional runner up finishes. Oon struggled with injuries though and has only played twice in a professional event since 2023, a missed cut and a T50 finish on the Epson Tour last year. Now, it will be interesting to see if she can recapture that form that earned her a card in the first place.
Mirabel Ting – Because she was college teammates with the best amateur in the world, Lottie Woad, for the past few years, many fans probably don’t know too much about Mirabel Ting. Ting, who like Oon hails from Malaysia, was actually the winner of the 2025 Annika Award at Florida State, which goes annually to the top female U.S. collegiate golfer. Every Annika Award winner who has pursued professional golf has made it to the LPGA Tour. Ting has a chance to continue that tradition in 2027.
Megan Schofill – Megan Schofill, the winner of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur, had a solid start to her Epson Tour career in 2025 with three top-10 finishes. She finished just one spot from earning her card thanks to a top-five finish at the Epson Tour Championship. If there was a player who would be the most odds on favored to earn an LPGA Tour card in 2026, it would probably be the former Auburn Tiger superstar.
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