Nau continues to lead at Montana Women's Amateur

BOZEMAN — Moving day at the 109th Montana State Women’s Amateur Championship shifted the leaderboard for some and extended the lead for others, heading into Thursday’s final round at Cottonwood Hills Golf Club. 

Day-one leader, Montana State Bobcat Lauren Nau, added to her opening round minus-6 to finish minus-8 after round two and holds a commanding seven-stroke lead over the field in the overall championship. 

Currently chasing Nau, is her Bobcat teammate, Sailor Graham and Montana Grizzly Katie Lewis of Frenchtown, who are tied at one-under par. Lewis took full advantage of the moving day, going one-under, highlighted by an eagle on the par-5 seventh hole. 

Meanwhile, Graham battled four bogeys and a double bogey to shoot plus-1. Her up-and-down round included birdies on 1, 4 and 13 before a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th that immediately erased Graham’s double bogey on the hole prior. 

Another tie between Bobcat Eva Heinz and recent Griz graduate and defending Women’s State Amateur champion Raina Ports at even par will set up a four-player showdown for the three podium spots in tomorrow’s championship round. 

Billings’ Payton Tryan holds a four-stroke lead over the junior field in the battle for the Carla Berg Trophy. The 2025 Class AA High School Champion finished plus-7 in her second round, with a pair of birdies on holes 7 and 16 to help negate two double bogeys. She leads Livingston’s Anna Lende and Billings’ Paige Loberg by four strokes. 

In the Master-40 Championship, Busby’s Sable Kerzmann shortened Audrey Wooding’s first-round lead from three strokes to just one after shooting plus-10 in her second round.