Women’s Golf Finishes Second at Big 12 Championship

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Maelynn Kim pumps her first after making a putt during Big 12 Championship presented by Allstate Final Round

Women’s Golf Finishes Second at Big 12 Championship

4/25/2026 3:59:00 PM | Women's Golf

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Maelynn Kim, Natalie Saint Germain & Moa Svedenskiöld earn Top-10 finishes and places on All-Tournament Team

DALLAS – The University of Houston Women's Golf program earned a second-place finish at the Big 12 Championship presented by Allstate at Dallas Athletic Club on Saturday afternoon.

Competing on the 6,270-yard, par-72 course, the 36^th-ranked Cougars posted a team score of 293 in the Final Round to finish six strokes behind Iowa State.

The Cougars tied for the third-lowest score of the day but could not overcome a hot start by Iowa State, which sank nine birdies in the first three holes on the way to the team championship with a score of 859.

This marked the Cougars' highest finish at a Big 12 Championship in program history and marked the team's best finish at a conference postseason event since finishing second at the 2022 American Athletic Conference Championships on Pinehurst #6 at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, N.C.

Junior Maelynn Kim fired a 71 Saturday for the Cougars' low round of the day and finished third with a three-day, 54-hole score of 3-under 213 for her best finish at a Conference Championships event. Senior teammates Natalie Saint Germain and Moa Svedenskiöld joined Kim among the Top-10 leaders and earned a place on the Big 12 All-Tournament Team.

Svedenskiöld earned the third Conference All-Tournament honor of her career while Saint Germain captured her second after tying for 10^th at the 2025 Big 12 Championships at The Clubs at Houston Oaks in Hockley, Texas.

Kim moved under par with her first birdie of the day on the par-4 fourth hole but endured back-to-back bogeys on the next two holes. The Houston native opened her second nine with a birdie at No. 10 and alternated birdies and pars over the next six holes on the way to her 71.

Saint Germain enjoyed her career-best finish at a Conference Championship with 16 pars and only a pair of bogeys on her scorecard to tie for fifth at 1-under 215.

Svedenskiöld buried a pair of birdies in her Final Round and finished with a 73 for the second straight day to tie with Kirstin Angosa (TCU) for 10^th at 217.

Senior Alexa Saldaña tied for 19^th at 220 while sophomore Emilia Väistö, who was making her Big 12 Championship debut with Houston, tied for 44^th at 227.

Following the Cougars, #15 UCF (870), #22 Arizona State (874), #21 Oklahoma State (874), Texas Tech (883), #26 Baylor (884), #41 TCU (887), #37 Kansas (889) and BYU (902) rounded out the Top 10.

Iowa State's Nichakorn Pinprayoon and UCF's Mila Jurine shared medalist honors with a score of 7-under 209. Following Kim, Arizona State's Patience Rhodes finished fourth at 2-under 212 while Pimpisa Sisutham (UCF) and Ellie Bushnell (Oklahoma State) joined Saint Germain in a tie for fifth at 215.

UP NEXT
Following the Big 12 Championship, the Cougars will learn their postseason fate during the NCAA Selection Show at 4 p.m. (CDT), Wednesday, April 29, on Golf Channel.

Houston has been represented in NCAA Regional play every season except the first in program history in 2013-14 when NCAA regulations would not allow it. The Cougars have been selected as a team at NCAA Regionals in each of the last three years and nine of the last 10 seasons.

From there, the Cougars will enter the NCAA postseason on May 11-13 at one of six venues across the nation. Those sites include University of Michigan Golf Course (Ann Arbor, Mich.); UNC Finley Golf Course (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Robert Jones Golf Trail at Hampton Cove (Huntsville, Ala.); Stanford Golf Course (Stanford, Calif.,); Seminole Legacy Golf Club (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Ridgewood Country Club (Waco, Texas).

The Top-Five teams from each NCAA Regional advance to play at the NCAA Championships, set for May 22-27 at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.

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