Ross Steelman takes second-round lead at Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard

Ross Steelman took the solo lead in Round 2 of the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard with a career-low, bogey-free 9-under 61 on the Bogota-Pacos course.

Charting the leader

Ross Steelman (first/-13)

• Cards a career-low bogey-free 9-under 61 (previous: 62/2025 The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island/R2)
• Sets a career-best 36-hole score with a 13-under 128 (previous: 129/2023 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health)
• Second 36-hole lead/co-lead of his career in what is his 35th start on Tour (2024 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club/finished T20)
• In three starts this season, owns two made cuts with a T9 finish at The Bahamas Golf Classic
• Second start at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard (2024/MC)
• A third-year Korn Ferry Tour member
  • Finished No. 56 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn fully exempt status for the 2025 season
• Last season, made 12 cuts in 23 starts with seven top-25 finishes, including two top 10s
• Initially earned Korn Ferry Tour membership with a No. 4 finish in the 2023 PGA TOUR University Rankings
• Played two and a half seasons at the University of Missouri (2019-21 – redshirted after enrolling in January 2019) and transferred to Georgia Tech (2021-23) for his final two seasons
  • While at Georgia Tech, earned 2023 All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors; also earned All-Southeastern Conference in 2021 while at Missouri
  • Additional collegiate honors include 2023 Golfweek First-Team All-American and GCAA Second Team All-American

Additional player notes

• Jack Maguire (T2/-11), who finished No. 67 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List to earn fully exempt status for the 2025 season, matches his career-low 36-hole score with an 11-under 130 (2023 NV5 Invitational).
• Korn Ferry Tour rookie Rayhan Thomas (T2/-11), who is making his fifth career start on Tour this week, matches his career-low round with a 7-under 64 (2024 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open/R2) and holds the best 36-hole position of his young Korn Ferry Tour career (previous: T34/2025 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club/finished T7).
• Christo Lamprecht (fourth/-10), who finished No. 2 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, posts the lowest round of his career with an 8-under 62 (previous: 63/2024 Wichita Open/R2) that included a stretch of five consecutive birdies (Nos. 5-9).
• First-year member Matthew Anderson (T10/-8), who earned Korn Ferry Tour membership via a No. 3 finish in the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Fortinet Cup, records the low round of the week – and lowest of his professional career – with a bogey-free 10-under 60. He bounced back from an opening round 2-over 73 to make his first 36-hole cut on the Korn Ferry Tour (previous career low: 62/three times).
• Three Colombians made the 36-hole cut: Marcelo Rozo (T32/-5), Esteban Jaramillo (T32/-5) and Ricardo Celia (T49/-4).
  • Rozo, a Bogotá, Colombia,native, makes his first career cut at The Astara Golf Championship in what is his ninth start.
  • Jaramillo is the first amateur to make the cut at the Astara Golf Championship since 2011 and second overall (Andrés Echavarría/finished T19).
• The 36-hole cut was made at 3-under with 82 players advancing to the weekend.
• Third-round tee times will run from 7:30-9:40 a.m. local time with groupings going off Nos. 1 and 10.