NORMAN, Okla. – For the second one time in 3 days, University of Houston sophomore Moa Svedenskiold fired a 3-under 67 to steer the Cougars within the Final Round of the Schooner Fall Classic and earn her 2d immediately Top-10 end to open the season on Monday afternoon.
Playing one student-athlete down because of sickness, the 20th-ranked Cougars recorded their 2d immediately sub-par spherical as a group, completing with a ranking of 2-under 278, to complete fourth with a three-day overall of 838 at the 6,182-yard route.
Starting her break day No. 1, Svedenskiold moved below par along with her first birdie at the par-4 2d hollow and closed her entrance 9 with a birdie at No. 9. Following 5 immediately pars to begin her again 9, the Halmstad, Sweden, local tired her ultimate birdie of the match at No. 15 to complete at 6-under 204 and tie for 7th.
Sophomore Alexa Saldana and freshman Maelynn Kim tied for 17th at even-par 210. After beginning with a birdie on No. 3, Kim overcame back-to-back bogeys as Nos. 7-8 to sink birdies on two of her subsequent 4 holes to complete below par and accumulate a personal-best end in her younger collegiate occupation.
Senior Nicole Abelar tied for 34th at 214 after taking pictures 70 in Monday’s Final Round. Playing as a person, junior Hyeonji Kang tied for 43rd at 215 and joined Svedenskiold and Kim in purple numbers with a 69 Monday. Freshman Ellen Yates sat out the Final Round because of sickness.
Wake Forest captured the group identify with a ranking of 811 to complete 22 pictures forward of Virginia Tech. Purdue got here in 3rd at 837 with Florida State (841), Oklahoma State (843), Tulsa (846), North Texas (847), Oklahoma (847) and Iowa State (850) rounding out the Top 10.
Virginia Tech’s Morgan Ketchum earned medalist honors with a ranking of 9-under 201. Tulsa’s Lilly Thomas completed 2d at 202 whilst Wake Forest teammates Rachel Kuehn, Mimi Rhodes and Carolina Lopez-Chacarra joined Florida State’s Lottie Woad in a tie for 3rd at 203.
Svedenskiold joined Maddison Hinson Tolchard (Oklahoma State) and Lois Lau (TCU) in a tie for 7th.
UP NEXT
Following the Schooner Fall Classic, the Cougars tee off at the Illini Invitational at Medinah on Oct. 9-10 at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill.
From there, Houston closes the autumn season when it competes at the Jim West Challenge at Kissing Tree Golf Club in San Marcos, Texas, on Oct. 20-22.
Following the vacation smash, the Cougars open their spring season once they play at the Nexus Collegiate at Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas, on Feb. 12-13, 2024.
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