Preview: Schooner Fall Classic

FORT WORTH – TCU continues its fall season with its annual pilgrimage to Norman, Okla., to partake in the Schooner Fall Classic, beginning Saturday at Belmar Golf Club.

Teams will play 18 holes of golf each day from Saturday-Monday. Nine of the 16 competing teams qualified for NCAA Regionals last season, among them Auburn, conference rivals Houston, Iowa State and Oklahoma State and host Oklahoma.

TCU's five-player lineup is Kirstin Angosta, Sofia Barroso Sá, Meagan Winans, Gracie McGovern and Camille Min-Gaultier.

The Horned Frogs are riding a championship-winning performance across the Red River Boundary. TCU took first place at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational on Sept. 11 in its most recent outing, shooting a seven-over 871 to win the tournament by 12 strokes. Three Frogs cracked the top-15 of the final leaderboard. Angosta finished as the outright runner-up with a score of three-under 213. Barroso Sá tied for third at even-par (216). Winans recorded her second consecutive top-15 finish, tying for 14^th (+3, 219).

The Horned Frogs are competing in the Schooner Fall Classic for the sixth consecutive season and eighth time ever.

TCU set its all-time team records for low round (268) and low-54 hole total (831, -9) at the 2022 playing of the Schooner Fall Classic. The Horned Frogs took second place in the tournament in 2020 and 2022. Caitlyn Macnab won the Schooner in 2022, setting an individual program record for low-54 hole total (200, -10).

The Course – Belmar Golf Club – Par 70 / 6,188 yards
Founded in 2002, Belmar Golf Club sits in the unspoiled farmland of Norman, Okla. The course features Bermuda grass fairways and bent grass greens. Designed by Tripp Davis, the short course length, elevation changes and the weaved direction through the surrounding homes presents a unique challenge.

The Field
Auburn
Florida Atlantic
Florida State
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas State
North Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Oral Roberts
TCU
Texas State
Tulane
Tulsa
Virginia Tech
Wisconsin

Tournament Schedule
Teams tee off on holes one or 10 at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The final 18 holes get underway with a 9 a.m. shotgun start on Monday. Tee box assignments for round three are determined by team scores.

The Schooner Fall Classic utilizes a five-count-four scoring format.

Live scoring will be provided by Scoreboard.Clippd.com.

TCU Lineup

Kirstin Angosta

The sophomore is making her ninth straight start as a Horned Frog. She teed it up in all six of TCU's spring tournaments in 2023-24.
Angosta shot two-under 70 in the first and third rounds on her way to an outright runner-up finish at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. The performance signified her second career top-10.
Angosta Parred Pebble Beach in the final round of the Carmel Cup.
Angosta was TCU's biggest riser in round three at Pebble Beach. She jumped from 35^th and into a tie for 26^th (+14, 230).
Angosta won both of TCU's qualifiers for the Carmel Cup and Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. She was exempt for the Schooner Fall Classic.
She tallied a team-leading 55 birdies during the spring portion of the 2023-24 season.
Angosta tied for sixth at The Chevron Collegiate in February, shooting a nine-under 207.
Angosta has posted four top-30 finishes in eight starts.
Angosta boasts a team-best career-high Scoreboard individual ranking of No. 173.
She concluded the 2023-24 season with a 72.3 adjusted scoring average.

Sofia Barroso Sá

The junior is TCU's active career leader in every major statistical category, including birdies (203), par-or-better rounds (27), sub-70 rounds (10), top-20's (10) and top-10's (four).
She has turned in a countable score in 69-of-70 (.985) of her career rounds played.
The junior posted a 36-hole aggregate score of 141 (three-under) across rounds two and three at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. She shot a three-under 69 in round two, which was TCU's individual low rounds core during its march to the tournament title.
Barroso Sá bagged four birdies and shot an even-par 72 on the final day of the Carmel Cup to tie for 16^th. She ascended seven spots on the leaderboard in round three.
Barroso Sá was an individual qualifier for NCAA Regionals last season. She has twice competed in the NCAA Tournament. Barroso Sá was the only TCU player to advance to individual play at the NCAA Championships in 2022-23.
Barroso Sá won the Barbara Nicklaus Cup individual title as a freshman in 2022-23. She is the only Horned Frog freshman to win a tournament in the last six seasons dating back to 2018.
The Portugal native will make her 26^th straight start in Norman. She has teed it up in every tournament in her TCU tenure.
Barroso Sá concluded the 2023-24 campaign tabbed 201^st in the Scoreboard individual rankings. She achieved a career-high ranking of No. 197 following the Big 12 Championship.
Last season, Barroso Sá scored par-or-better on 81 percent of her holes (438-540) and was even or under par in 14 of her 30 rounds.

Meagan Winans

Winans is teeing it up at the Schooner Fall Classic for the fourth straight season. She tied for 21^st and set a low-54 hole personal record (+4, 214) as a freshman at Oklahoma in 2021.
TCU's lone senior, Winans leads TCU in scoring average (73.3) and is tied for the team-high in birdies (19) and top-20's (two).
Winans will make her 13^th consecutive start for TCU at Belmar. She has competed in every tournament since transferring to Fort Worth from Oklahoma in 2023.
The Schooner Fall Classic marks the 28^th event she has competed in collegiately.
Winans notched the first collegiate top-10 finish of her career at the Carmel Cup, placing ninth outright (+3, 219).
She collected five birdies in round one of the Carmel Cup on her way to a three-under 69; was tied for fifth following the first 18 holes.
Winans was the second-highest finisher of 18 Big 12 competitors at the Carmel Cup.
She shot a one-under 71 in the final round of the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational to force a tie for 14^th.
Winans notched a career-best low-18 and low-54 hole scores at the Jim West Invitational in October. Winans shot a five-under 67 in the final round and finished minus-2 (216) overall.
Last season, Winans led TCU in pars (348) and was third on the squad in birdies (72).
Winans has tallied 10 par-or-better rounds as a Horned Frog.

Gracie McGovern

Notched a top-20 finish in her collegiate debut at the Carmel Cup.
Produced TCU's best score over rounds two and three at Pebble Beach; shot a four-over 148 over the final 36 holes
McGovern claimed the crown in TCU's stage two qualifier for the Carmel Cup. She finished seven-under (206) and was under par in all three rounds.
She tied for 34^th at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational.
The freshman was the world No. 9 junior amateur golfer in 2023 and was ranked as high as seventh in the Rolex Junior Rankings that same year.
Originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, McGovern became the first female to win the AIA D-III State Championship in 16 years in 2023.
McGovern competed at the LPGA Liberty National Tournament in 2023 and was paired with world No. 10 Charley Hull in her final round.
The 2023 season also saw McGovern selected to compete for Team USA in the Jr. Solheim Cup.

Camille Min-Gaultier

Min-Gaultier has notched back-to-back top-25's ahead of the Schooner Fall Classic.
The freshman for 22^nd at the Carmel Cup (+13, 229) in her collegiate debut. She then fired a one-under 71 in the second round of the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational on her way to a tie for 23^rd (+9, 225).
Min-Gaultier finished round two at Pebble Beach with consecutive birdes en route to a three-over 75.
She won the Horned Frogs' freshman qualifier ahead of the Carmel Cup, carding a 54-hole score of 213 (-2).
From La Londe-les Maures, France, Min-Gaultier achieved a career-high world junior amateur golf ranking of No. 82 in 2024.
Min-Gaultier won the 2024 Italian International Ladies Championship and was crowned Vice Champion of France Ladies earlier this spring.
She also qualified for the 2024 Women's Amateur Championship.

Team Notes

TCU won its first tournament titles in six years with its triumph at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational.
The Horned Frogs have recorded their low round score in the final round in 10 of their last 12 events dating back to the 2023-24 campaign.
TCU's birdie game has blossomed through two tournaments in 2024-25. The Horned Frogs bagged a tournament-leading 39 birdies on their way to the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational championship. At the Carmel Cup, TCU carded 29 of its 42 birdies over the final two rounds.
TCU was tabbed No. 31 in Golf Channel's 2024-25 preseason rankings. Half of the expanded Big 12 cracked the top-35 of the annual prognostication. The conference counterparts joining the Horned Frogs in the rankings are No. 9 Arizona State, No. 14 Arizona, No. 21 Kansas, No. 25 UCF, No. 27 Baylor, No. 28 Oklahoma State and No. 33 Houston.
Angie Ravaioli-Larkin is in her 31^st season as the head coach of TCU women's golf. A lifelong Texan, Ravaioli-Larkin is the longest tenured head coach at TCU.
Since assuming the program helm 1994, Ravaioli-Larkin has qualified TCU for NCAA Regionals in 27 of her 30 completed seasons.
TCU has reached the NCAA Championships nine times under Ravaioli-Larkin, including consecutive appearances in 2022 and 2023.
TCU is enjoying a streak of 22 consecutive seasons with NCAA postseason representation.
The Horned Frogs have won 19 tournaments in the Ravaioli-Larkin era.
TCU has claimed five conference championships spanning three different leagues under Ravaioli-Larkin.
TCU finished under par in seven of their 10 final rounds last season.
The Horned Frogs notched six top-10 team finishes in 2023-24.
TCU is hosting a stroke play event in its home state for the first time in its Big 12 era with the inaugural Charles Schwab Women's Collegiate on Oct. 28-29 at Ridglea Country Club.

Last Time Out
TCU was the outright leader following each round on its way to a wire-to-wire victory at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. The Horned Frogs took a six-stroke lead into the final round. Consecutive even-par rounds over the last 36 holes solidified the championship.

Angosta, Barroso Sá and Winans all finished even or under-par in the final round.

The tournament title was TCU's 19^th under Ravaioli-Larkin and 53^rd all-time.

Next on the Tee
TCU breaks for a month before playing its penultimate fall event, the Jim West Challenge, on Oct. 20-21 at Kissing Tree Golf Club in San Marcos, Texas.

Like the Schooner Fall Classic, visits to the Greater Austin area are a fixture on the Horned Frogs' schedule. TCU has teed it up at Kissing Tree in eight consecutive seasons dating back to the 2016-17 campaign. The Horned Frogs won the 2018 Jim West Challenge, the program's most recent tournament championship prior to its triumph in Kentucky, and placed second in 2021. Last fall, the Horned Frogs set a program record for low round vs. par at the event, firing a 17-under 271 on the final day.

Schedule