Seoul: South Korean tour star Lee Dong-eun remained in position to earn LPGA membership for the 2026 season as Mother Nature continued to wreak havoc on the final qualifying event in Alabama over the weekend.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the LPGA announced Sunday (local time) that the 90-hole final stage of the LPGA Q-Series will be shortened to 72 holes, after inclement weather caused a second delay for the competition earlier in the day. Due to what the LPGA said were "unplayable course conditions," the third round was suspended at 9:05 a.m. local time. Play resumed at 2:30 p.m. but was suspended with players having completed between four and 11 holes.

The start of the first round at Magnolia Grove in Mobile, Alabama, had been pushed back from Thursday to Friday owing to bad weather. With the event shortened to four rounds instead of five, the LPGA said the goal is to complete play by Tuesday and there will be no cut. The top 25 players and ties at the end will earn their LPGA cards for 2026.

Lee, who won a Korea LPGA major this year at the Korea Women's Open Golf Championship, entered the third round in a tie for fourth place at eight-under. She recorded pars on each of the first four holes Sunday before play was suspended. Juniper Jang, tied for 16th place at four-under at the stoppage of the third round, is the only other South Korean inside the top 25 at the moment.

Lee Jeong-eun, the 2019 LPGA Rookie of the Year who won the U.S. Women's Open title that same season, is tied for 27th at two-under, just one stroke back of seven players tied for 20th place.