Trace Crowe will sleep on the lead in Austin. Crowe reached 13 under through 16 holes Friday before darkness suspended the second round of the Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions at 5:37 p.m. CT, with 16 players left to finish Saturday morning and Kevin Yu one shot back at 12 under.

Weather: Sunny. High of 78. Wind variable 5-10 mph.

Suspension summary: The second round was suspended at 5:37 p.m. (CT) due to darkness with 16 players yet to complete the round.

36-hole cut: 67 players sit inside the current projected cutline of 4-under with 16 players yet to complete the second round. 13 of those 16 players sit within the projected cutline, with two players one stroke outside the cutline.

Partial Second-Round Leaderboard

1. Trace Crowe: 62, -13 thru 16
2. Kevin Yu: 66-66, 132 (-12)
T3. Brian Harman: 67-66, 133 (-11)
T3. Kristoffer Ventura: 66-67, 133 (-11)

Trace Crowe (-13 thru 16 holes)

Sits 13-under through 16 holes and will return Saturday to face a 55’3″ putt for birdie on the par-3 17th hole
Seeks first win in his 50th PGA Tour start; owns one top-three finish on Tour (T3/2026 Bank of Utah Championship)
Career-low 36-hole score is 131 (2026 Bank of Utah Championship/finished T3)
Would hold his first 36-hole lead/co-lead on Tour (previous best 36-hole position: T7/2024 RBC Canadian Open/finished T27)
Two top-10s in 16 starts this season (T4/Zurich Classic of New Orleans/with Ben Martin as partner, T3/Bank of Utah Championship)
Entered the week No. 117 in the FedExCup Fall standings
Finished in the top 20 of Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn a PGA Tour card for 2026 season; has two wins on the Korn Ferry Tour in 57 starts (2025 UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH, 2023 NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank)

Kevin Yu (-12)

Carded 10 birdies in a single round for the fourth time in his career en route to an opening-round 66
With 17, currently leads the field as the player with the most par-breakers (birdies/eagles combined) this week
Shot a 36-hole total lower than 132 twice on Tour (130/2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship/finished T3, 131/2024 John Deere Classic/finished T20)
Could possibly hold his first 36-hole lead/co-lead on Tour (previous best 36-hole position: T4/2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches/finished T9)
Lone PGA Tour victory came at the 2024 Sanderson Farms Championship when he defeated Beau Hossler in a playoff
Began the week at No. 99 in the FedExCup Fall standings following two top-10s in 26 starts this season (7th/Valero Texas Open, 4th/Wyndham Championship)
Currently leads the field in Strokes Gained: Putting

Additional Notes

Four-time PGA Tour winner Brian Harman (-11) began with a bogey and closed with a bogey to card 6-under 66; seeks his fifth title and second in Texas (2025 Valero Texas Open) in his 415th start; 2023 Open Championship winner is one of two major champions in the field (Lucas Glover/2009 U.S. Open)
Seeking his first victory in his 104th PGA Tour start, Norway’s Kristoffer Ventura (-11) required 27 putts in each of the first two rounds; owns four top-five finishes this season, including two runner-up results (T2/Zurich Classic of New Orleans/with teammate Kristoffer Reitan, T2/VidantaWorld Mexico Open)
Neal Shipley (-10 thru 16) sits 6-under for the day when play was suspended; looks to make his ninth consecutive cut after missing the cut in 12 of his first 17 starts this season
PGA Tour rookie Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (-9) makes his first career hole-in-one on the PGA Tour, holing an 8-iron at the 159-yard third hole en route to a 6-under 66
Coming off a victory at last week’s World Wide Technology Championship, Blades Brown (-9) follows a first-round 65 with a 2-under 70; 19-year-old looks to become the first player since Matt Fitzpatrick to win back-to-back tournaments on Tour (2026 RBC Heritage, 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans)
Miles Russell (-9 thru 15), the only amateur in the field, looks to make his fourth cut in five starts this season
2026 3M Open winner Jackson Koivun (E) will miss his second cut on Tour since turning professional (MC at 2026 John Deere Classic in his first start as a professional on Tour)
Current scores of the four former University of Texas Longhorns in the field: Tommy Morrison (-8), Christiaan Maas (-7 thru 15), Pierceson Coody (-5), Doug Ghim (-5)
Karl Vilips withdrew with a neck injury prior to the second round
C.T. Pan withdrew with a rib injury during the second round

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