Trace Crowe came back Saturday morning and finished the job, making pars on his last two holes to close out a 13-under 131 and take a one-shot lead into the weekend at the Austin Championship presented by Compliance Solutions, with the 36-hole cut falling at 4-under and third-round play already under way in Austin.

Weather: Friday: Sunny. High of 78. Wind variable 5-10 mph. Saturday: Cloudy. High of 70. Wind NE 4-8 mph. Preferred lies are in effect.

Suspension summary: The second round was suspended at 5:37 p.m. (CT) on Friday due to darkness with 16 players yet to complete the round. Round two resumed at 7 a.m. on Saturday and was completed at 8:01 a.m. Round three starting times are 8:40-10:41 a.m. off Nos. 1 and 10 tees in groups of three.

36-hole cut: 66 professionals and one amateur at 4-under 140 from a field of 119 professionals and one amateur

Second-Round Leaderboard

1. Trace Crowe: 62-69, 131 (-13)
2. Kevin Yu: 66-66, 132 (-12)
T3. Brian Harman: 67-66, 133 (-11)
T3. Kristoffer Ventura: 66-67, 133 (-11)
T5. Four players: 134 (-10)

Trace Crowe (1st/-13)

Upon resumption of play, makes pars on Nos. 17 and 18 to finish 13-under and take a one-stroke lead after 36 holes
Seeks first win in his 50th PGA Tour start; owns one top-three finish on Tour (T3/2026 Bank of Utah Championship)
Equals his career-low 36-hole score (131/2026 Bank of Utah Championship/finished T3)
Holds his first 36-hole lead/co-lead on Tour (previous best 36-hole position: T7/2024 RBC Canadian Open/finished T27)
Owns 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; projected No. 62
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)
Broke his wrist last September and was in a cast for four months; first start in 2026 was the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April

Kevin Yu (2nd/-12)

Carded 10 birdies in a single round for the fourth time in his career en route to an opening-round 66
With 16, leads the field as the player with the most birdies 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)
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)
Leads the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (5.513)

Additional Notes

Four-time PGA Tour winner Brian Harman (T3/-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 (T3/-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 (T5/-10) makes his ninth consecutive cut after missing the cut in 12 of his first 17 starts this season; best finish on Tour: T3/2026 Biltmore Championship Asheville
PGA Tour rookie Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (T9/-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 (T9/-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 (T9/-9), the only amateur in the field, makes his fourth cut in five starts this season
In his first start since the 2026 WM Phoenix Open, where he withdrew after an opening-round 76, Emilio Gonzalez (T37/-5) makes the cut
2026 3M Open winner Jackson Koivun (MC/E) misses his second cut on Tour since turning professional (MC at 2026 John Deere Classic in his first start as a professional on Tour)
Positions and scores of the four former University of Texas Longhorns in the field: Tommy Morrison (T16/-8) has the fewest number putts by any player through 36 holes (49); Christiaan Maas (T28/-6) makes the cut in his PGA Tour debut; Pierceson Coody (T37/-5) ranks T1 in Driving Accuracy (25 of 28 fairways hit); Doug Ghim (T37/-5) follows a first-round 73 (T94) with a 6-under 66
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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