Written By: Steve Eubanks jseubanks Steve Eubanks is a New York Times bestselling author and managing editor for the LPGA. OCALA, FLORIDA | Few things focus the mind and heighten the senses like a treacherous road never traveled, even if you’ve driven down curling paths before. Austin Ernst has won twice in her eight-year career on the LPGA Tour. She will almost certainly pass the four-million-dollar mark in career earnings by the summer. And she has hit quality shots under pressure on a winning U.S. Solheim Cup team. As pressure situations go, she’s been there, plenty. But there is one road Ernst has never traveled. She has never led or shared the lead after the second round of an LPGA Tour event. She’s only led after the third round once, and that was because one of her victories, the 2020 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G, was a 54-hole event.