Tuesday, April 15
Hockley, Texas
8 AM
TCU
vs
Big 12 Championship
Preview: Big 12 Championship
4/13/2025 10:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
TCU enters as No. 2 seed in 14-team tournament
FORT WORTH – The No. 15 TCU women's golf team will play for the Big 12 Championship, beginning Tuesday at The Clubs at Houston Oaks in Hockley, Texas.
Teams will engage in 18 holes of stroke play over three days, with the top 10 individual finishers earning All-Tournament team honors following the conclusion of Thursday's final round.
Four members of TCU's five-player lineup are nationally ranked; No. 55 Camille Min-Gaultier, No. 76 Kirstin Angosta, No. 79 Meagan Winans and No. 88 Sofia Barroso Sá. Gracie McGovern will play as the No. 5. TCU is also traveling Sofie Dimitrova, who will serve as the Horned Frogs' substitute.
The Horned Frogs earned the 2-seed in the 14-team tournament by virtue of their Scoreboard ranking. TCU is paired with No. 8 Arizona State and No. 19 Arizona for Tuesday's opening round. The Frogs and Sun Devils are the only teams in the expanded league with four top-100 players.
TCU has won five conference championships in its history. The Horned Frogs have finished first or second in 14 of their last 26 conference tournaments covering four different leagues (WAC, Conference USA, Mountain West and Big 12) dating back to 1999.
The Course – The Clubs at Houston Oaks – Par 71 / 6,249 Yards
The tournament will be contested on the country club's championship course, which opened in 2017. The course is hosting the Big 12 Championship for the third time in the last four seasons and has been the site Big 12 Match Play on the men's side for two straight years. TCU sat a solo third following the opening round in 2024 and finished tied for 10th.
The Field
#8 Arizona State
#15 TCU
#19 Arizona
#22 Kansas
#26 Houston
#28 Kansas State
#29 Iowa State
#30 Oklahoma State
#31 UCF
#37 Baylor
#55 BYU
#61 Texas Tech
#63 Colorado
#117 Cincinnati
Tournament Schedule
Players will tee off in 10-minute intervals on holes one and 10 for the first two rounds. The Horned Frogs begin Tuesday's opening round on the front nine at 8 a.m. and will switch to the 10th tee on Wednesday. The final 18 holes commence with a shotgun start.
Results will be provided by Scoreboard.Clippd.com. The final round will air live on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
TCU at the Big 12 Championship
Teams will engage in 18 holes of stroke play over three days, with the top 10 individual finishers earning All-Tournament team honors following the conclusion of Thursday's final round.
Four members of TCU's five-player lineup are nationally ranked; No. 55 Camille Min-Gaultier, No. 76 Kirstin Angosta, No. 79 Meagan Winans and No. 88 Sofia Barroso Sá. Gracie McGovern will play as the No. 5. TCU is also traveling Sofie Dimitrova, who will serve as the Horned Frogs' substitute.
The Horned Frogs earned the 2-seed in the 14-team tournament by virtue of their Scoreboard ranking. TCU is paired with No. 8 Arizona State and No. 19 Arizona for Tuesday's opening round. The Frogs and Sun Devils are the only teams in the expanded league with four top-100 players.
TCU has won five conference championships in its history. The Horned Frogs have finished first or second in 14 of their last 26 conference tournaments covering four different leagues (WAC, Conference USA, Mountain West and Big 12) dating back to 1999.
The Course – The Clubs at Houston Oaks – Par 71 / 6,249 Yards
The tournament will be contested on the country club's championship course, which opened in 2017. The course is hosting the Big 12 Championship for the third time in the last four seasons and has been the site Big 12 Match Play on the men's side for two straight years. TCU sat a solo third following the opening round in 2024 and finished tied for 10th.
The Field
#8 Arizona State
#15 TCU
#19 Arizona
#22 Kansas
#26 Houston
#28 Kansas State
#29 Iowa State
#30 Oklahoma State
#31 UCF
#37 Baylor
#55 BYU
#61 Texas Tech
#63 Colorado
#117 Cincinnati
Tournament Schedule
Players will tee off in 10-minute intervals on holes one and 10 for the first two rounds. The Horned Frogs begin Tuesday's opening round on the front nine at 8 a.m. and will switch to the 10th tee on Wednesday. The final 18 holes commence with a shotgun start.
Results will be provided by Scoreboard.Clippd.com. The final round will air live on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
TCU at the Big 12 Championship
- TCU is making its 13th appearance at the Big 12 Championship since joining the conference in 2012-13.
- Under head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin, the Horned Frogs have tallied a trio of top-three team finishes. TCU finished as the runner-up in 2015 and placed third in 2016 and 2023.
- TCU has placed fifth or better at the tournament five times (2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023).
- TCU shot a three-over 292 in the first round of the 2022 Big 12 Championship, its lowest score at the Clubs at Houston Oaks.
- Winans, Barroso Sá and Dimitrova each shot a seven-over 220 to tie for 26th in 2024. Barroso Sá scored par-or-better on 42 holes.
- Then a sophomore, Barroso Sá carded a one-under 70 in round one – the lowest score ever recorded by a Horned Frog on the course – and sat tied for fourth after 18 holes.
- Barroso Sá tied for sixth at one-over (217) and received All-Tournament team honors as a freshman at the 2023 Big 12 Championship.
- TCU finished fifth in 2022 at The Clubs at Houston Oaks, placing three golfers in the top-20 of the individual leaderboard. Lois Lau tied for 19th at plus-12 (225). Lau carded an even-par 71 – the lowest score of any Horned Frog – in the final round.
- The Horned Frogs' Big 12 Championship low round record is 288, a mark the program set over the final 18 holes of its runner-up finish at the 2015 Big 12 Championship at the Dominion Country Club in San Antonio.
- Five Horned Frogs have garnered a combined seven All-Big 12 team accolades at tournament's end. Sabrina Iqbal (2019, 2022) and Caitlin Macnab (2022-2023) twice received the recognition. TCU's other All-Big 12 players are Sanna Nuutinen (2015), Emmy Martin (2017) and Greta Bruner (2019).
- Macnab became the first Frog to be named Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2022.
- Sabina Pena holds TCU's lowest round score at the Big 12 Championship. She shot a 67 during the 2016 edition of the tournament.
- TCU has won 55 all-time team championships, 21 of which have come under the leadership of Angie Ravaioli-Larkin.
- Ravaioli-Larkin is in her 31st season as the head coach of TCU women's golf. A lifelong Texan, she assumed the program helm in the fall of 1994 and is the longest-tenured head coach at TCU and across all Big 12 women's sport programs.
- Ravaioli-Larkin has become a fixture within the TCU community and the history of its athletics department. She has worked with six athletic directors and coached in five conferences.
- Ravaioli-Larkin-led teams have qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 27 of 30 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.
- TCU has claimed five conference championships spanning three different leagues under Ravaioli-Larkin.
- Ravaioli-Larkin has mentored 37 all-conference players, nine All-Americans and 42 All-American Scholars in her time as head coach.
- The 2024-25 TCU women's golf team is the first in the Ravaioli-Larkin era to win three team championships in the same season. They are the first team in 35 years to collect a trio of championships in a season and one of only four in program history to achieve the feat alongside the 1982, 1983 and 1989 contingents.
- The Horned Frogs have recorded their low round score in the final round in 14 of their last 20 events dating back to the 2023-24 campaign. TCU has finished even or under par in 11 of its last 19 final rounds.
- TCU recorded its 13th round of par or better over the first 18 holes of the MountainView Collegiate on March 2, shooting a five-under 283. The 13 par-or-better rounds are tied with the 2021-22 Horned Frogs' squad for the most in a season.
- TCU has shot under par in six-of-15 rounds during the spring portion of its schedule
- The Horned Frogs have notched a combined 18 top-10's and 31 top-20's over 10 tournaments.
- TCU has placed five players in the top 20 of the individual leaderboard in three events.
- TCU has finished no worse than sixth in any tournament.
- The Horned Frogs have produced a 288.7 season scoring average through 10 tournaments. The average is on pace to set a single-season record and overtake the 2021-22 squad's mark of 290.3 atop the program record book as the best in a season in program history.
- TCU's eight top-five team finishes are tied with the 1998-99 Horned Frogs squad for the most in a season.
- TCU set school records for low tournament total (830) and low-54 vs. par (-34) in its team championship at the Chevron Collegiate.
- The Horned Frogs finished 22-under (842) to win the Jim West Challenge by one stroke over No. 26 Houston on Oct. 22. TCU shot a 281 (-7) in rounds one and two and was tied for first entering the final 18 holes.
- TCU captured its first tournament title in six years with its triumph at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational on Sept. 11 at the PGA Tour Keene Trace Golf Club. The Horned Frogs finished seven-over (871) and won by a 12-stroke margin. TCU played even-par golf over its final 36 holes.
- Always a point of emphasis, TCU's birdie game has blossomed in 2024-25. The Frogs' seven-player roster averages 44.9 per tournament (449 total).
- The Frogs tallied a tournament-leading and season-high 58 birdies in their team championship at the Chevron Collegiate. TCU led the Collegiate Invitational at GCC field with 51 on their way to shooting a four-under 860 and finishing as the outright runner-up. TCU birdied 53 holes in its Jim West Challenge championship and bagged a tournament-leading 39 birdies on their way to the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational team title. At the Carmel Cup, TCU carded 29 of its 42 birdies over the final two rounds.
- TCU is 60 birdies shy of breaking its single-season record (508), set by the 2021-22 team.
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