With three events left in the 2025 Epson Tour season, five players have already secured their LPGA cards. That means 10 are still up for grabs.
Yana Wilson, 19, became the fifth player to graduate after clinching her second title of the season at the Dream First Bank Charity Classic in Garden City, Kansas. In 16 starts, Wilson has missed only one cut and finished in the top 10 nine times, including two wins. She joins Erika Hara, Melanie Green, Gina Kim and Briana Chacon as guaranteed members of the 2025 Epson Tour graduating class.
Wilson, the 2022 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion, currently holds the No. 1 spot in the Epson Tour’s Race for the Card rankings. With $138,581, she’s No. 2 on the tour’s money list and first in strokes gained tee to green.
“It feels pretty cool. I mean, there’s still more work to be done,” said Wilson. “I have other goals in mind that I want to achieve, so, you know, job not done. I think I had a pretty good chance, but I didn’t really have my expectations too high. I didn’t play my best last year, just in the amateur golf tournaments and some professional events that I ended up playing, so I was really just trying to focus on staying consistent the entire year.”The tour’s official card ceremony will take place Oct. 5, following the Epson Tour Championship in Indian Wells, California. The tour is off this week.
Players who finish in the top 10 of the Race for the Card Points List will earn a higher category of status (Category 9) for 2026 than those who finish 11-15 (Category 16).
Here’s how the Epson Tour’s top 15 currently shapes up:
- Yana Wilson
- Melanie Green
- Gina Kim
- Erika Hara
- Briana Chacon
- Riley Smyth
- Laetitia Beck
- Minji Kang
- Sophia Schubert
- Hailee Cooper
- Michelle Zhang
- Carla Tejedo Mulet
- Samantha Wagner
- Laney Frye
- Amari Avery
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