Annabelle Pancake-Webb during Round 2 of the Atlantic Beach Classic (Photo: Isaiah Bell/Epson Tour)
Atlantic Beach Country Club | Atlantic Beach, Fla. | March 6, 2026
Round 2 of the 2026 Atlantic Beach Classic presented by Access Golf started late and ended incomplete. A 45-minute fog delay pushed the morning tee times to 8:15 a.m., and by 6:15 p.m. darkness had swallowed what was left of the field. Several players still out on the course will return Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. to finish their rounds before the final round begins immediately after.
When the dust settled on Friday, Annabelle Pancake-Webb stood alone at the top—10-under par through 36 holes, holding a one-shot lead heading into the weekend.
Pancake-Webb Ties the Record
Annabelle Pancake-Webb played the kind of round you don’t forget. She shot an 8-under 63, matching the 18-hole tournament scoring record set previously by Sophia Schubert and others. One eagle. Six birdies. Zero bogeys. She hit 17 greens in regulation and chipped in with a fairway wood from off the green at one point. The Clemson alum was making it look easy.
“It was a really fun round of golf,” Pancake-Webb said. “I was striking the ball really nicely. I was able to make a few putts. I also had a great group, so we just had so much fun.”
The key stretch came on holes 4, 5, and 6—birdie, birdie, eagle. Just like that, she had separated herself. What was impressive was how she handled the aftermath. She doesn’t watch leaderboards. Her mindset is simple and consistent: beat the golf course, every hole, every shot. She carries the same approach into tomorrow.
“I’m just so thankful to be here,” she said afterward. “I’m going to go try and have as much fun as I can and beat the golf course again.”
At 132 total, she enters the final round with a one-shot cushion over a pair of players who both shot 63 themselves in round two.
Addicks and Fierro Right Behind Her
Dorsey Addicks also carded a 63 Friday, matching Pancake-Webb stroke for stroke on the way to tying that 18-hole record alongside her. Eight birdies, no bogeys. Addicks made three consecutive birdies twice—holes 5 through 7, then 11 through 13. She said the putts were just dropping.
“It kind of felt like it was just a steady round and I stayed in my own bubble,” Addicks said. “I only had really one par save, and it was on the last hole.”
Isabella Fierro is right there with her at -9. The Oklahoma State product fired a 6-under 65, carding seven birdies with five of them coming on the front nine. Fierro joined the Epson Tour in 2023, has 13 career top-10s, and earned her LPGA card by finishing 13th in the Race for the Card last season. She came into this week rested and confident, and it shows.
Her game plan for Saturday? Nothing complicated.
“Just do the exact same things—rest, recover well, eat well, and keep the same mindset for tomorrow,” she said. “This golf course can be a beast, so treat it with respect and just not really focus on the result, just focus on every shot.”
Papp Budde Grinds to Fourth
Kaitlyn Papp Budde is 7-under through 36 holes and sitting in fourth after a 5-under 66. She made six birdies and one bogey, but more telling than the scorecard was how she played it mentally.
Papp Budde admitted she didn’t even know what she shot until she sat down in the scoring tent and added it up. She wasn’t focused on the number. She was focused on hitting greens, giving herself looks with the putter, and letting the result take care of itself.
“I was just focused on trying to hit as many greens as possible,” she said. “Just kind of let the chips fall where they may.”
Hole 7 was the one ugly moment—she played it poorly and walked away with a bogey. She didn’t flinch. By hole 9, she had a birdie back. That’s the kind of fight she’s been building this season.
Her plan for the final round is about as no-frills as it gets: hit some balls, hit some putts, rest, and “rinse and repeat.”
Katherine Hollern’s Long Day
Friday was a marathon for Katherine Hollern. She had two holes left from a suspended first round, so she was at the course by 6 a.m. after leaving home at 5. The finish didn’t go smoothly—”I three-putted one, so I was kind of frustrated, you know, just waking up and getting going.”
When she got into Round 2, the iron striking wasn’t where she wanted it. She was grinding, making birdies where she could, but the front nine was choppy.
Then came hole 7, and the day got strange. Hollern was in a gully, invisible to the players around her, when two balls landed near her back-to-back. “Both their balls fell like this. So I was a little startled and I was under the tree and there’s that water there.” She tried to punch out—and overcorrected. Too far left, near the OB stakes. She tried to hook it around the trees. It hit a branch and came back at her. She chipped out, hit a bad wedge to 20 feet, missed it, and tapped in for bogey.
The rattled energy didn’t leave her right away. “9, I just—just a couple holes where I was just really anxious and I just couldn’t calm my energy down after that.” On 10 she hit a 5-wood into the back right bunker, then missed a five-footer for par. “That was disappointing.”
That’s when caddie Hannah stepped in. “My caddie Hannah kind of helped settle me down.”
The turn came on 11. Hollern found the right fairway bunker—”that’s jail, of course”—and somehow got up and down anyway. “That was kind of a momentum shift and I was just trying to make like one more good swing at a time.” She didn’t hit a great wedge on 12, but it ended up six feet out and she made it. Then she rolled in a 40-footer on 13.
“The last like eight holes I was able to just kind of find a little bit of centering after I made that par up-and-down and just was more in the moment.”
She signed for a 72-71 total, sitting T38. More importantly, she made the cut—which is a genuine milestone for her reshuffle status.
“Making the cut is super, super helpful,” she said. “So I’ll at least after the first reshuffle have the chance to get in and be on my way.”
Jackie Lucena: Home Is Where the Pressure Is
Jackie Lucena plays her home course at Atlantic Beach Country Club. That’s a double-edged thing. She knows exactly what shots she can hit out here, which raises the internal bar considerably.
“When you play your own course, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to play well,” she said.
She didn’t have her best round on Friday, but she shot 71 to sit at 1-under for the tournament, comfortably inside the cut line at T23. She gets to play all three rounds at home, and Saturday figures to bring out fans who couldn’t make it on a workday.
“Not often do you get to have people come out in golf, because you’re always traveling, going to other places,” she said. “When you get the opportunity to play in front of people, it is pretty special.”
A Word on the Course
Atlantic Beach Country Club is not a course that lets players get comfortable. The bunkers—anywhere near the fairway—are playing like absolute jails. Multiple players talked about punching out sideways just to get back to a workable lie. Hollern mentioned it twice. The fairways are narrow enough that players routinely find themselves putting from 10 yards off the green rather than chipping from grass.
The pins on Friday were tucked tighter than Round 1. Players who teed off in the morning, like Pancake-Webb and Hollern, had the advantage of lighter winds before conditions picked up in the afternoon. The scoring average from Round 1 was 73.242—on a good day, this course demands patience and precision.
Saturday Format
Round 2 resumes at 7:30 a.m. with several players still needing to complete their second rounds. Lauren Clark, who sits fifth and was through 16 holes at 6-under when darkness hit, needs to finish two more holes before final-round pairings get underway.
The final round follows immediately after.
Pancake-Webb leads at -10. Addicks and Fierro are one back at -9. Papp Budde sits at -7 in fourth. Five players are within five shots of the lead.
It’s going to be a long Saturday.
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