FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 19, 2026
141 Professional Golfers Begin Tournament Play on Friday
PENDLETON, Ore. (Aug. 19, 2026) — Wildhorse Resort & Casino, Eastern Oregon’s premier family and entertainment destination, has finalized and released the complete field of entrants for the 2026 Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic. In partnership with the Epson Tour, the official qualifying circuit of the LPGA, the three-day tournament begins Friday, Aug. 21, and concludes in the late afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 23, with the final round and trophy presentation. Each day of competition begins at 7:15am at Wildhorse Golf Course, the championship course on the resort property.
The Epson Tour’s Race for the Card is a season-long points competition that awards LPGA Tour membership to the top 15 players at the season’s conclusion. All 15 golfers ranked in the current standings are in the final tournament field. No. 1 Lauren Olivares (Mexico) and No. 3 Mirabel Ting (Malaysia) are the highest-ranked international players in the tournament field. No. 2 Kaleiya Romero, a native of San Jose, California, and former assistant coach for the University of Oregon women’s golf team, played last weekend in The Standard Portland Classic, an LPGA event.
Additional ties to the Pacific Northwest are also prevalent. Kennewick, Washington, native Therese Warner joins the field for the fifth consecutive year. Two sponsor exemptions, Victoria Gailey and Gabby Barker, hail from Tigard, Oregon, and Caldwell, Idaho, respectively. Epson Tour professional Lauryn Nguyen is a native of Seattle and has a tournament victory to her credit in her first season on the Epson Tour. Sarah Rhee is also a native of Seattle and played collegiate golf at the University of Washington.
An overview of player entries reveals 141 golfers in total, with 89 professionals from the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including 22 from California, 12 from Texas and nine from Florida.
There are 52 international golfers representing countries from as far away as Australia, Japan and France; this total includes seven from Canada and the People’s Republic of China, respectively, as well as five from both Thailand and Chinese Taipei.
The complete field can be found online at: epsontour.com/tournaments/wildhorse-ladies-golf-classic/entries.
Three-day general admission tickets are $12, and single-day passes are available for $5. Youth admission is free when accompanied by a paid adult. Tickets can be purchased online by visiting seatgeek.com/wildhorse-ladies-golf-classic-tickets.
About The Epson Tour:
The Epson Tour is the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA and enters its 46th competitive season in 2026. With the support of entitlement partner Seiko Epson Corporation, the Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best female professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour. In the last decade, the Epson Tour has grown from 15 tournaments and $1.6 million in prize money to $5 million awarded across 20 events in 2025. In all, over 400 LPGA Tour titles have been won by Epson Tour alumni, including over 50 major championships. Follow the Epson Tour at epsontour.com, as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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