Anna Nordqvist leads the final LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock at the halfway mark on eight under par.  She is assured a spot in the final group tomorrow with first round leader Nicole Castrale.  Combined between them, they have one LPGA Tour victory - and it's not Nordqvist with the win. 

That fact doesn't seem to bother Nordqvist.  When asked if she was ready to win a major, she responded, "If I am, then I am.  I'm just here to learn and to have fun."

Consider the learning curve very flat for Nordqvist.  This is her first professional major championship.  She did not play in the Kraft Nabisco Championship earlier this season.  Her only prior major experience came in the Women's British Open.  When asked what was the most nerveracking experience in her golfing career to this point, she cited that experience.  Ultimately, she made the cut as an amateur.

This is a different situation entirely.  Tomorrow will be an even larger leap for Nordqvist.

Today, Nordqvist played in a two-some with Hye-Jone Choi.  Together, they played behind the formidable and popular grouping of Michelle Wie, fan favorite Christina Kim, and Shanshan Feng.  They waited - a lot.  After all, Nordqvist did not require nearly as many shots as her playing partners or the group in front of her.

Nordqvist admitted that waiting was hard for her because it required so much additional concentration on every shot.  It was suggested that the delays may have kept her in the moment, but she deflected the notion by reiterating that she was just out here to "have fun and learn."

She quietly made her way around Bulle Rock, which was playing notably harder today than yesterday - particularly in the afternoon session in which she played.

The two of them played in front of a gallery of around twenty people at any one time during the round.  It was almost as though Nordqvist was playing in a completely separate tournament from the group in front of her.

The Wie grouping was flanked by hundreds of fans.  It was rowdy for the players' successes and equally as boisterous for the miscues.  The group was flanked by two plain clothes police officers.  One member of the gallery sported a Michelle Wie football jersey of all things.

There was no such thing to be found for the 22 year old rookie.  Nordqvist is young, attractive, talented, and composed.  In other words, she has all of the same tools that Michelle Wie has been touted to have but yet to display fully as a professional.  Nordqvist may well beat her to the punch if she continues along the same path she did in the first two rounds of the LPGA Championship.

Overnight, Nordqvist has made a name for herself on the LPGA Tour.  On Saturday, she will face a gallery that may be fifty times larger than what she experienced today.  More eyes would seemingly mean more pressure.  Nordqvist, though, does not seem convinced that is the case.

When asked about the increased attention, she said, "[Tomorrow,] I'm just trying to go out there and have fun, trying to learn as much as possible, because that's why I'm here."

That kind of sentiment has been echoed by major contenders in the past and proved to be nothing more than a front.  For Nordqvist, though, she may well mean it.  After all, she has been witness to follow countrywoman Annika Sorenstam.  Annika possessed impecable composure and ability.  She could serve as quite the influence for young Nordqvist.

The Swede is in her rookie season on the LPGA Tour after leaving from now-NCAA women's golf champion Arizona State.  Interestingly enough, that's the rival school to Sorenstam, who attended Arizona.

The pair may be separated by over a decade and interstate rival schools, but Nordqvist now has an opportunity to put one notch in a belt that has been well worn by the Swedish standard bearer on the LPGA Tour.