Historic Monday in San Diego – Stanford Cardinal

The headliner during the second round was the play of Ortengren, who took over the individual lead and put the rest of the field in a stranglehold. She was great in the first round, shooting a 4-under 68, but began her second round of the day with a birdie and kept adding on from there. She began the round with four birdies in her first five holes and then finished her round with four straight birdies. The last of those birdies ended her round with a 10-under 62, joining Mariah Stackhouse as the only other Cardinal in program history to go ten strokes under par in a round. Stackhouse did so during the second round of the 2013 Peg Barnard Invitational.

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With a 10-under 62 during the second round of the San Diego State Classic, Meja Ortengren ties @MoStacksBirdies for the most strokes under par in a single round!#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/smkuCqMEfY

— Stanford Women’s Golf (@StanfordWGolf) February 11, 2025

On a national level, Ortengren’s 62 is tied for the eighth-best round in NCAA history, and the best since 2023. Through 36 holes, Ortengren sits at 14-under with her 130, which is the most strokes under par any Stanford women’s golfer has been through 36 holes. 

With her record-setting second round, Ortengren now sits with a six-stroke lead over the field entering the final round. She helped Stanford 18-under as a team in the second round, the third-best team round in program history. Only Stanford’s first rounds at the 2022 Gunrock Invitational (-23) and 2023 NCAA Pullman Regional (-21) were better. 

There was no shortage of great performances during Monday’s first round of the spring. Four other Stanford golfers sit inside the top seven, with Paula Martin Sampedro and Kelly Xu tied for fifth and Megha Ganne and Nora Sundberg tied for seventh. Martin Sampedro endured an up-and-down first round that included six bogeys but also had six birdies and an eagle to enter the second round at a 2-under 70. She then shot a clean second round and was three-under-par. Xu was excellent in the first round, contending for the lead with a 4-under 68 before finishing her day with a 1-under 71.

Ganne posted the second-best Stanford round during the second round, with a 4-under 68. She bogeyed on her second hole but was clean the rest of the way, with five birdies on the scorecard. Competing as an individual and not factoring into team scoring, Sundberg matched Ganne in both rounds, with a 72 in the first round and a 4-under 68 in…