2026 Austin Championship Leaderboard: Round 1 Standings and Odds

Trace Crowe leads the 2026 Austin Championship leaderboard at 10 under par after a bogey-free 62 on Thursday, the lowest round of his PGA Tour career. Max Greyserman and Erik van Rooyen are two back at 8 under, and last week’s winner, Blades Brown, sits fourth at 7 under. Round 1 is not finished. Darkness stopped play at 5:36 PM Central with 25 players still on the course, and the book has already cut Crowe from +6600 to +465. That is too short for a Thursday lead.

Austin Championship leaderboard after Round 1

Crowe’s 62 gives him a two-shot lead on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas, a par 72 hosting the PGA Tour for the first time. He made 10 birdies and, per the PGA Tour’s recap, had a birdie putt on every hole except the par-3 11th. The 25 players who did not finish come back Friday at 7 AM local time, and Round 2 starts on schedule. The course-level numbers for the week are on our Fazio Canyons Course page.

The table below shows the top of the 2026 Austin Championship leaderboard when play was suspended Thursday, November 12, per the PGA Tour and ESPN leaderboards.

Position	Player	Score to par	Round 1
1	Trace Crowe	-10	62
T2	Max Greyserman	-8	64
T2	Erik van Rooyen	-8	64
4	Blades Brown	-7	65
T5	Rafael Campos	-6	66
T5	Kevin Yu	-6	66
T5	Ben Kohles	-6	66
T5	Kris Ventura	-6	66
T9	Brian Harman	-5	67
T9	Austin Smotherman	-5	67
T9	Miles Russell (a)	-5	67
T9	Aaron Wise	-5	67
T9	Max McGreevy	-5	67
T9	Chandler Phillips	-5	67

Three more players were at 5 under and still out when the horn blew: Gordon Sargent through 17 holes, Nicholas Lindheim through 16, and Jimmy Stanger through 15. Any of them can still join the group at 6 under, or pass it, on Friday morning. Jordan Smith and Marco Penge were each 4 under with one hole left.

Who is in it and who is already in trouble

The story of Thursday at the 2026 Austin Championship is a leader playing for his job and a pre-tournament board that got flipped. Crowe came into the week 117th in the FedExCup Fall standings, with only the top 100 keeping full cards and one event left after this one. Jackson Koivun and Doug Ghim, the two shortest prices on Wednesday, are a combined 1 under.

Crowe said after the round that it “didn’t feel fluky at all,” and the scorecard backs him up. He made a swing change with the driver this week, per the PGA Tour, and he was not scrambling for a single par. He missed the start of this season after wrist surgery and did not play until April, which is a big part of why he is where he is in the standings.

Greyserman’s 64 was the loud one. He made three eagles, the last of them a chip-in from about 70 feet on the par-5 18th with the light almost gone. Van Rooyen got to the same number with a lot less noise.

Then there is Brown. The 19-year-old won the World Wide Technology Championship in a playoff on Sunday, flew straight from Mexico to a course he had never seen, and made nine birdies in a 65. The hangover week a few previews were calling for did not show up on Thursday.

The other end of the board is where the money went to die:

• Jackson Koivun shot 70 and is tied for 53rd at 2 under, eight shots back.
• Doug Ghim shot 73. He is 11 behind Crowe and has work to do Friday just to play the weekend.
• Chris Kirk, one of the most popular outright picks of the week, also shot 73.
• Seamus Power withdrew and is listed as WD on the ESPN leaderboard. Golf Today reported a hip injury.

Ventura’s 66 deserves a line too. He was the sleeper we wrote up before the event, and the case for him is in our piece on who Kris Ventura is and why the price was interesting.

Austin Championship odds after Round 1: is Trace Crowe worth +465?

No. Trace Crowe is +465 at DraftKings to win the 2026 Austin Championship as of Friday at 4:38 AM Central, down from +6600 on Thursday morning, and that price asks a player who has never held an 18-hole lead on Tour to hold one for 54 more holes. Blades Brown at +720, three shots back, is the better number on the board.

That is not a knock on the 62. Crowe was not a random name on Thursday. He sat in the top 10 of all four published models we tracked in this week’s notes, and he was a common top-20 and DFS play. The model liked the player. It is the price that got ahead of itself, which is usually how a first-round lead gets priced the morning after.

The table below compares DraftKings outright prices from Thursday, November 12, at about 7:45 AM Central, before the first tee shot, with the DraftKings board pulled Friday, November 13, at 4:38 AM Central.

Player	Position	Thursday morning	Friday morning
Trace Crowe	1	+6600	+465
Blades Brown	4	+1950	+720
Max Greyserman	T2	+5200	+870
Erik van Rooyen	T2	+11500	+1200
Kris Ventura	T5	+3600	+1500
Ben Kohles	T5	+4400	+1700
Kevin Yu	T5	+4500	+2100
Jackson Koivun	T53	+1550	+5000
Doug Ghim	T94	+1700	+33000

Look at Brown’s line against Greyserman’s. Brown is one shot behind Greyserman and still shorter, +720 to +870. The book is telling you who it fears, and it is the teenager who just won, not the two players sitting between him and the lead. Brown was first or second in every one of those four models coming in. If you want a bet off this leaderboard, that is the one.

Kohles is the quieter option. FanDuel has him at +2000 as of Friday morning, four shots back, and he was a core play on more than one of the shows we follow this week. Van Rooyen going from +11500 to +1200 is the kind of move that looks great on a ticket you already hold and bad on one you buy today.

Conditions matter here. Wednesday’s forecast in our notes had Friday sunny, in the mid 70s, with wind under 10 mph, so the course should give up low numbers again and nobody at 5 under is out of it. The weekend looked different, with gusts in the 20s and a chance of rain both days. A two-shot lead on a soft course in calm air is not much of a cushion, and that is the whole reason to pass on +465. If you are betting during the round, our guide to how in-play golf odds move covers when the book overreacts and when it does not.

For DFS, the Friday morning restart matters more than usual. Sargent, Lindheim, and Stanger all have birdie holes left before they turn around and play Round 2, and Koivun is suddenly a low-owned name with a lot of ground to make up. If you want to check how the leaders stack up in approach play and Bermuda putting, the stats the previews leaned on all week, this is how the Rabbit Hole model builder works.

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Austin Championship Round 1 questions

How can I watch Round 2 of the 2026 Austin Championship?

Golf Channel has Round 2 of the 2026 Austin Championship on Friday, November 13, from 2 to 5 PM Eastern, which is 1 to 4 PM Central. PGA Tour Live on ESPN Plus streams earlier in the day, including featured groups. Blades Brown is in one of them, off at 1:13 PM Eastern with Andrew Novak and Max Homa.

How much does the winner of the 2026 Austin Championship get?

The 2026 Austin Championship has a 6 million dollar purse, and the winner earns 1,080,000 dollars and 500 FedExCup points. For a player like Crowe, who started the week 117th in the FedExCup Fall standings, the points are worth more than the check. The full payout table is in our Austin Championship purse breakdown.

Is there a cut at the 2026 Austin Championship?

Yes, the field is cut after 36 holes. The PGA Tour’s standard for a full-field event is the top 65 players and ties, and the line will not be known until Round 2 is complete on Friday. With Round 1 scoring this low, anyone over par has a lot to do.

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