These players came up clutch at LPGA Q-School with closing birdies
Polly Mack has become a regular at LPGA Q-School. It’s not the repeat appearance anyone hopes for, of course, but there are advantages to experience.
At this week’s Final Qualifying, Mother Nature added her own layers of tests in the form of trying weather and delays in Mobile, Alabama. The event, which was scheduled to end on Monday, was shortened by a full round and still bled into Tuesday, when players faced a frost delay first thing at RTJ’s Magnolia Grove.
Mack proved ready for it all.
“You always know Final Stage is going to be exhausting,” said the long-hitting German, “it’s going to be bad weather, it’s going to rain, it’s going to be cold, it’s going to be anything. I’ve been doing this since 2021, continuously every year, and it’s not the dream to come back here every year, but I think I’ve learned a lot throughout the years that helped me this week to stay mentally in the process of knowing, the birdies will come, my game is in the right spot.I just gotta stay patient and accept what it is out there.”
Mack, 26, poured it on at the perfect time, carding six birdies on her final nine holes at the Crossing Course to jump from a share of 44th going into the final round to a T-10. Mack’s closing 64 put her at 8 under for the tournament. The former Alabama player led the tour in driving distance in 2023 and was second this season at 283.46.
Thirty-one players earned their LPGA cards for the 2026 season.
Mack wasn’t the only clutch performer. Emma McMyler of Texas birdied five of her last six holes shoot 67 and get to 6 under. Ireland’s Lauren Walsh matched her 67 with birdies on two of her last three holes.
England’s Mimi Rhodes, a three-time winner on the LET this season, needed a birdie on the last hole to get to 5 under and make the cut on the number and got it done. Isa Gabsa also birdied her 72nd hole to get inside the cut line, as did Thailand’s Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, the Oregon player who turned professional for this week.
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