Fredgaard Moves to 34th at NCAA Championships

Karen Fredgaard, NCAA Championships, Second-Round scorecard

Scoring \| Pairings

Team		Rounds				Score
		1	2	3	F
1.	#6 Stanford	291	278		569	-7
2.	#2 Duke	292	281		573	-3
3.	#17 Texas	289	288		577	+1
4.	#9 Florida State	298	285		583	+7
5.	#4 Wake Forest	292	293		585	+9
6.	#7 Oklahoma State	297	289		586	+10
7.	#5 Mississippi	296	291		587	+11
8.	#3 LSU	296	292		588	+12
t9.	#13 Oregon	290	300		590	+14
t9.	#10 Arizona	292	298		590	+14
11.	#10 Arizona State	300	291		591	+15
t12.	#30 Michigan State	301	294		595	+19
t12.	#21 UCLA	302	293		595	+19
t14.	#23 Michigan	304	296		600	+24
t14.	#1 South Carolina	312	288		600	+24
16.	#12 Baylor	308	293		601	+25
t17.	#16 Kent State	292	310		602	+26
t17.	#11 Georgia	307	295		602	+26
19.	#20 Maryland	306	297		603	+27
20.	#15 Auburn	305	299		604	+28
t21.	#28 Kentucky	299	307		606	+30
t21.	#14 Virginia Tech	302	304		606	+30
23.	#8 USC	307	300		607	+31
24.	#26 Alabama	308	310		618	+42

HOUSTON LEADERS
		1	2	3	F
t34.	Karen Fredgaard (Ind.)	77	70		147	+3

OVERALL LEADERS
		1	2	3	F
1.	#2 Rachel Heck Stanford	69	67		136	-8
t2.	#35 Gina Kim Duke	74	67		141	-3
t2.	#28 Lauren Hartlage Louisville	73	68		141	-3
4.	#7 Emma Spitz UCLA	72	70		142	-2
t5.	#84 Lianna Bailey Oklahoma State	74	69		143	-1
t5.	Ya Chun Chang Arizona	73	70		143	-1
t5.	#14 Sophie Guo Texas	73	70		143	-1
t5.	#51 Phoebe Brinker Duke	73	70		143	-1
t5.	#25 Jaravee Boonchant Duke	72	71		143	-1
t5.	#25 Briana Chacon Oregon	71	72		143	-1

UPDATE (9:25 p.m., Saturday, May 22) – University of Houston sophomore Karen Fredgaard will tee off at 9:25 a.m. (CDT) off No. 10 Sunday in the Third Round of the NCAA Championships. She will compete in a group with Kajsa Arwefjall (San Jose State) and Anna Zanusso (Denver). The original story listed incorrect starting hole and playing partners. We regret any confusion. The story below has been updated with the correct information.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – University of Houston sophomore Karen Fredgaard fired a 2-under 70 in the Second Round of the NCAA Championships on Saturday afternoon to move up 53 places into a tie for 34th at Grayhawk Golf Club.

With her sub-par total, Fredgaard set a school record for low round in NCAA Championships play. The Asserbo, Denmark, native bested the previous 18-hole low of 70, set by Leonie Harm during the First Round of the 2018 NCAA Championships at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla., on May 18, 2018.

A day after shooting 77 in her opening round, Fredgaard played bogey-free golf with a pair of birdies to soar through the individual rankings.

She started her day with seven consecutive pars before making her first birdie of the day on the 158-yard, par-3 eighth hole. After a par to close out her front nine, Fredgaard opened her back nine with a birdie on the 359-yard, par-4 10^th hole and then made eight straight pars to cap her day.

Stanford's Rachel Heck held the individual lead with 8-under 136 after shooting a 67 in Saturday's play. Duke's Gina Kim and Louisville's Lauren Hartlage were tied for second at 141, while UCLA's Emma Spitz stood in fourth at 142.

No. 6 Stanford held the second-day team lead at 7-under 579, four strokes ahead of No. 2 Duke. No. 3 Texas was in third at 577 with No. 9 Florida State (583), No. 4 Wake Forest (585), No. 7 Oklahoma State (586), No. 5 Mississippi (587), No. 3 LSU (588), No. 13 Oregon (590) and No. 22 Arizona (590) rounding out the Top 10.

Fredgaard earned her inaugural trip to the NCAA Championships as one of the nation's Top-10 players. Although the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional was canceled without a shot being played due to unplayable conditions from wet weather last week, Fredgaard's No. 7 ranking made her one of three student-athletes not from a qualifying team to advance to the nation's top collegiate tournament.

Fredgaard and the field will play 54 holes of stroke play with 18 holes each day. Following 54 holes, the Top-15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will advance for one additional day of stroke play Monday to determine the individual national champion.

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PAIRINGS
For Sunday's Third Round, Fredgaard will begin her day off No. 10 at 9:25 a.m. (CDT). She will compete in a group with Kajsa Arwefjall (San Jose State) and Anna Zanusso (Denver)).

Complete Third-Round pairings can be found by clicking here.

ABOUT KAREN FREDGAARD
This season, Fredgaard has emerged as one of the nation's and the world's leading amateur players. The sophomore leads the Cougars with a 70.27 scoring average and 12 rounds of par or better, including seven in the 60s, and was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year.

She enters the NCAA Championships as the No. 5 player in the latest Golfstat national rankings and at No. 8 in the recent Golfweek/Sagarin rankings.

Competing in five tournaments during the spring season, she has finished among the Top-10 in each event with four Top-Five showings.

Fredgaard captured the individual title at the UCF Challenge to open the season on Jan. 31-Feb. 2 for the first championship of her collegiate career and tied for third at the prestigious Augusta National Women's Amateur at Augusta National Golf Club on March 31-April 3.

Earlier this month, she was selected to compete for Team International during the 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup in June.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY
Fredgaard is the second Cougar student-athlete to make the program's third individual appearance at the NCAA Championships.

All-American and two-time American Athletic Conference Player of the Year Leonie Harm was the first Cougar to compete at the NCAA Championships.

The Gerlingen, Germany, native became the first Cougar to compete at the NCAA Championships after finishing seventh at the 2016 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional.

Two years later, she posted a Final-Round 65 and battled through seven-hole playoff to emerge from the 2018 NCAA Austin Regional with an 11^th-place finish.

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