For the first time in over a decade, Megan Khang doesn’t have full LPGA status.
The 29-year-old Khang, who was an LPGA rookie as a teenager in 2016, will head back to Q-School this upcoming week in hopes of regaining her place on the tour after finishing No. 103 in the Race to CME Globe points.
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Khang left a 20-foot birdie putt a couple revolutions short on her 72nd hole of The Annika on Sunday before eventually tying for 43rd; had she converted, the T-37 finish would’ve been enough to move her inside the top 100 and afford her Category 11 membership in 2027.
Instead, it was South Korea’s Dongeun Lee tying for 37th and maintaining her place at No. 100 in points, less than six-hundredths of a point clear of No. 101 Lilia Vu, who still can play off her major exemption from 2023, when she collected a pair of major titles.
If Khang, who played in a sixth Solheim Cup earlier this season, does not finish among the top 25 and ties at the 90-hole final qualifying, which starts Thursday, she will still have conditional membership as an LPGA winner in the past 21 seasons. She can then reshuffle into better priority.
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Other notables finishing outside the top 100 who don’t have full status for 2027 include England’s Mimi Rhodes (105), who won on the LPGA in 2023 and was a member of this year’s European Solheim Cup team but shot 82-76 on the weekend at Pelican Golf Club to finish last among the 73 players who made the cut.
Former Oregon standout Briana Chacon, who last year graduated from the Epson Tour, finished No. 115. Swede Linnea Strom, an LPGA winner in 2024, ended No. 123. Aussie Gabi Ruffels, who won the 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur, made 16 starts and still finished No. 142, two spots ahead of Carolina Chacarra, a recent Wake Forest standout and sister of Eugenio Chacarra, who received his PGA Tour card on Sunday following the end of the DP World Tour season.
The top 80 in points earn the best status for the following season, so it was an unfortunate week for Slovenia’s Ana Belac, who missed the Annika cut and dropped from No. 80 to No. 81, swapping spots with Belgium’s Manon de Roey.
Anna Nordqvist, Linn Grant, Nastasia Nadaud, Lauren Walsh, Jin Young Ko, Alexa Pano and Frida Kinhult were among those finishings among Nos. 81-100 in points. Ko can use one of her career-money exemptions next season.
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The final cutoff decided on Sunday was the top 60, which will advance to the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida. Annika winner Lindy Duncan climbed 40 spots to No. 34 while Julia Lopez Ramirez carded five back-nine birdies to shoot 67, finish solo fifth and move from No. 66 to No. 47 in points.
Dropping out of the top 60 were Angel Yin and Jodi Ewart Shadoff.
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