2026 Austin Championship Leaderboard: Round 2 Standings and Odds

Trace Crowe still leads the 2026 Austin Championship leaderboard, at 13 under par with two holes of Round 2 left to play. Kevin Yu is the clubhouse leader at 12 under after a second straight 66, and Brian Harman and Kris Ventura are tied for third at 11 under. Darkness stopped play again on Friday, this time at 5:37 PM Central with 16 players still out. DraftKings has Crowe down to +335. With a one-shot lead and a wet, windy weekend coming, that is a pass.

Austin Championship leaderboard after Round 2

Crowe is 13 under through 34 holes on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas, a par 72 of 7,451 yards. He comes back Saturday morning to a birdie putt of about 55 feet on the par-3 17th green, then plays the par-5 18th. So the lead could be one, two, or gone by the time Round 3 starts.

The table below shows the top of the 2026 Austin Championship leaderboard when Round 2 was suspended on Friday, November 13, per ESPN’s leaderboard. A number in the last column means the player finished the round. “Thru” means he is still on the course.

Position	Player	Score to par	Round 1	Round 2
1	Trace Crowe	-13	62	Thru 16
2	Kevin Yu	-12	66	66
T3	Brian Harman	-11	67	66
T3	Kris Ventura	-11	66	67
T5	Sami Valimaki	-10	68	66
T5	Jordan Smith	-10	67	67
T5	Erik van Rooyen	-10	64	70
T5	Neal Shipley	-10	68	Thru 16
T9	Zach Bauchou	-9	69	66
T9	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	-9	69	66
T9	Ben Kohles	-9	66	69
T9	Rafael Campos	-9	66	69
T9	Blades Brown	-9	65	70
T9	Max Greyserman	-9	64	71
T9	Jeffrey Kang	-9	69	Thru 15
T9	Miles Russell (a)	-9	67	Thru 15

The projected cut is 4 under, with 67 players at that number or better. It does not become official until the last 16 finish. If you missed how Thursday went, the Round 1 leaderboard and odds are here.

Who moved on Friday, and who is going home

Friday at the 2026 Austin Championship belonged to the players chasing Trace Crowe, not to Crowe. Yu, Harman, Ventura, Valimaki, and Smith all shot 66 or 67 and closed the gap, while three of the four names closest to Crowe on Thursday night went backward. The two pre-tournament favorites went in opposite directions, and one of them is done.

Crowe did not do much wrong. He made his first bogey of the week on the 15th, his 33rd hole, per the Associated Press. He is 3 under for the day and has a par 5 still to come. It just was not a 62, and everybody behind him noticed.

Yu is the one with the most riding on it. He started the week 99th in the FedExCup Fall standings, the AP reported, with only the top 100 keeping full cards for 2027. “If you think about it, it’s definitely a lot of pressure,” he said. Two 66s is a decent way to handle it.

Ventura keeps hanging around. He was the sleeper we wrote up before the event, in our piece on who Kris Ventura is and why the price was interesting, and he has followed a 66 with a 67.

Then the bad news:

• Jackson Koivun, the favorite at most books on Wednesday, shot 74 and is even par. He is four shots outside the projected cut.
• Chris Kirk shot a second straight 73 and is 2 over. One of the most popular outright picks of the week is going home.
• Blades Brown shot 70 and slipped from fourth to a tie for ninth, four back.
• Max Greyserman and Erik van Rooyen, tied for second on Thursday night, shot 71 and 70.
• Karl Vilips withdrew with a neck injury and C.T. Pan with a rib injury, per Golf Today and Yahoo Sports.

Doug Ghim at least gave himself a weekend. He followed a 73 with a 66 and is 5 under, one inside the projected line. Max Homa is sitting right on it at 4 under and has to wait for the morning to find out. Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Davis Thompson are one shot on the wrong side.

Austin Championship odds after Round 2: is Trace Crowe worth +335?

No. Trace Crowe is +335 at DraftKings to win the 2026 Austin Championship as of Saturday at 4:38 AM Central, which works out to about a 23 percent chance. He leads by one, has never won on the PGA Tour, and came into the week 117th in the FedExCup Fall standings. Brian Harman at +750, two shots back, is the better number.

The table below compares DraftKings outright prices pulled Friday, November 13, at 4:38 AM Central with the DraftKings board pulled Saturday, November 14, at 4:38 AM Central. DraftKings last updated those Saturday prices late Friday night, after play was stopped.

Player	Position	Friday morning	Saturday morning
Trace Crowe	1	+465	+335
Kevin Yu	2	+2100	+610
Brian Harman	T3	+2300	+750
Kris Ventura	T3	+1500	+780
Jordan Smith	T5	+2300	+1125
Blades Brown	T9	+720	+1550
Neal Shipley	T5	+5200	+1700
Sami Valimaki	T5	+7600	+2100
Erik van Rooyen	T5	+1200	+2150
Max Greyserman	T9	+870	+2900
Doug Ghim	T39	+33000	+17000

Start with the miss. The call in this space on Friday was Brown at +720. He shot 70, and the same ticket now costs +1550. Four back with 36 holes left is not dead, and he was first or second in all four published models we tracked in this week’s notes, but the price is only fair now. It is not a bargain.

Harman is the one that looks light. He is two behind a leader who has never closed, he has a major on his shelf, and the recent-form table in our notes had him first in this field in both total strokes gained and putting. He was +2300 on Friday morning. At +750 you are getting the most proven player near the top at a longer price than Yu, who has the card pressure on top of everything else.

Shipley at +1700 is the long shot worth a look. He is 6 under for his round with two holes left, and two of the preview shows we follow bet him before the event at +6000 or better because of how he drives it. If he finishes the round clean, that number will not be there by lunch. When you are betting between rounds like this, our guide to how in-play golf odds move explains why the board resets the way it does.

The weather is the other reason to stay off the leader. The National Weather Service forecast issued Saturday at 4:32 AM Central has a high near 67 with southeast wind at 5 to 10 mph and gusts up to 25, plus a 20 percent chance of showers after 3 PM. The first two days were calm and soft, and the course gave up a 62. Saturday will not play like that. A one-shot lead in a 25 mph gust is nothing.

For DFS, the weekend builds get simpler with Koivun and Kirk gone and Ghim barely alive. The players who made up ground Friday did it with approach play and Bermuda putting, the two things most of the previews weighted all week. If you want to rank the 67 or so players left on those stats yourself, this is how the Rabbit Hole model builder works.

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Austin Championship Round 2 questions

How can I watch Round 3 of the 2026 Austin Championship?

Golf Channel has Round 3 of the 2026 Austin Championship on Saturday, November 14, from 2 to 5 PM Eastern, which is 1 to 4 PM Central, per the PGA Tour and Golf.com. The same window is listed for Sunday’s final round. The 16 players who did not finish Round 2 complete it Saturday morning before Round 3 begins.

Will rain affect the final round of the 2026 Austin Championship?

It might. The National Weather Service forecast issued Saturday morning gives Austin a 90 percent chance of rain on Sunday, with showers and thunderstorms before 3 PM and a half to three-quarters of an inch possible. Thunderstorms stop play, so a delay on Sunday is a real possibility. Anyone holding a ticket on a player near the top should care more about Saturday’s round than usual.

What is at stake at the 2026 Austin Championship besides the trophy?

Tour cards. The 2026 Austin Championship is the second-to-last event of the FedExCup Fall, and only the top 100 in the standings keep full status for 2027. The RSM Classic at Sea Island next week is the last chance. The winner in Austin gets 1,080,000 dollars from a 6 million dollar purse and 500 FedExCup points.

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