Following the fourth tournament of the 2019 Epson Tour season the Volvik Race for the Card welcomes a fresh top-10, including a new No. 1 in most recent Epson Tour champion Leona Maguire (County Cavan, Ireland), up six spots.

Dropping back one position is Julieta Granada (Asuncion, Paraguay) with $33,737 across three starts. Meanwhile, Jillian Hollis (Rocky River, Ohio) and Lauren Coughlin (Charlottesville, Virginia) slot right behind at $28,436 and $23,000, respectively, to make it four players with $20,000 or more so far this year.

“I knew I was close for a while, had been playing some really good golf and it was kind of frustrating that I maybe didn’t finish quite as high as I would’ve liked,” said Maguire, who has three straight top-five results. “This allows me to skip a few more events and not feel quite as bad about it. I’ll be back and forth between LET and here. It gives me a little more breathing room and it’s a nice head start going into the rest of the season where I’ll have had a look at the golf courses.”

Demi Runas (Torrance, California) checks in at No. 5 and Kelly Tan (Batu Pahat, Malaysia) leads the way for the second half of the top-10. She is closely followed by Kyung Kim (Chandler, Arizona) having earned $16,265 through four events, as only $3,570 separates the trio.

“Being in this position early in the year is a good showcase of what I’m capable of, so when those bumps in the road happen I can draw on the good,” Runas said after a tied for 38th finish in Northern California. “We obviously have a long way to go with 20 more events, but the excitement is starting to build with our next stop in El Dorado before a long stretch starts in early May.”

Pajaree Anannarukarn final round

Rounding out the group is Karen Chung (Livingston, New Jersey) at No. 8, then Pajaree Anannarukarn (Bangkok, Thailand) who jumped 85 places with a solo second finish in the Windsor Golf Classic and Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Georgia).

At the end of the season, the top-10 players in the Volvik Race for the Card standings will graduate onto the LPGA Tour for the 2020 season.

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