Preview: Carmel Cup

FORT WORTH – The TCU women's golf season begins once more with a visit to one of the world's most iconic golf courses.

The Horned Frogs are set to commence the 2025-26 campaign at the Carmel Cup, held from Aug. 29-31 at the renowned Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Now in its 14^th season of existence, the Carmel Cup brings together eight of the nation's top-rated programs from the Big 12 and SEC. The tournament is organized and fully funded by TCU alum Fin Ewing III ('80).

Teams will engage in 18 holes of stroke play each day. Unique to college golf, the Carmel Cup is a six-player lineup tournament with team's five best scores counting after each round.

TCU is competing in the Carmel Cup for the second consecutive season. The Horned Frogs placed sixth in a field that saw five teams eventually qualify for the NCAA National Championships. The event served as a springboard into a storybook season. TCU went on to win three team titles and achieve a school record year-end national ranking of No. 15.

The Horned Frogs return six letter winners from last season's record-setting squad, including the top four members of their lineup in Sofia Barroso Sá, Camille Min-Gaultier, Gracie McGovern and Kirstin Angosta. Freshman Yvette O'Brien will play the No. 5 while senior Charlotte Cattaneo rounds out the Horned Frogs' half-dozen competitors.

Barroso Sá, McGovern and Min-Gaultier all notched top-25 finishes at the 2024 Carmel Cup, with Barroso Sá tying for 16^th at nine-over.

Carmel Cup
Dates: Aug. 29-31
Location: Pebble Beach, Calif.
Course: Pebble Beach Golf Links
Par/Yardage: 72/6,828 yards
Schedule: 18 holes of stroke play per day
Scoring format: Six-count-five

The Course – Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach Golf Links is unanimously rated as the No. 1 public course and top-ranked golf resort in the United States. Pebble Beach hosted its sixth U.S. Open in 2019, and it's first U.S. Women's Open in 2023, more than any other course over the last 50 years. Seven future championships will be hosted, including three future Women's Opens in 2035, 2040 and 2048, and four future U.S. Opens in 2027, 2032, 2037 and 2044. Every February, the PGA TOUR visits for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a tradition that began in 1947.

The Field (2025 Final Scoreboard Ranking)
Arkansas (2)
TCU (15)
Mississippi State (18)
Texas A&M (20)
Vanderbilt (24)
Oklahoma State (26)
Oklahoma (34)
Texas Tech (60)

Tournament Schedule
Players will tee off in 11-minute intervals on hole one all three days, beginning at 6:40 a.m. PT / 8:40 a.m. CT. Teams will repair for Sunday's final round based on tournament results.

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

Head Coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin

TCU has won 21 of its 55 all-time team titles under the leadership of Ravaioli-Larkin, including three in 2024-25.
Ravaioli-Larkin is entering her 32^nd 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 is a fixture within the TCU community and its athletics department. She has worked with six different athletic directors and coached in five conferences.
Ravaioli-Larkin-led teams have qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 28 of 31 seasons.
TCU has reached the NCAA National Championships nine times under Ravaioli-Larkin, most recently earning back-to-back berths in 2022 and 2023.
The Horned Frogs have achieved postseason representation as a team or individually in 23 consecutive seasons under Ravaioli-Larkin.
TCU has won five conference championships spanning three different leagues under its longtime head coach.
Last spring, Min-Gaultier became the ninth All-American and 38^th all-conference player Ravaioli-Larkin has coached.
Ravaioli-Larkin's teams have produced the top-10 team season scoring averages in program history over the last decade, highlighted by a school record 289 in 2024-25.

Team Notes

TCU broke 17 team or individual program records in 2024-25, including scoring average (289), birdies (533), par-or-better rounds (15), top-five finishes (nine), low-36 (557, -19), low-54 (830, -34) and year-end national ranking (No. 15).
The Horned Frogs return three players who cracked the top-100 of the final Scoreboard rankings in 2024-25; Min-Gaultier (No. 51), Barroso Sá (No. 75) and Angosta (No. 100).
TCU has recorded its low round score in the final round in 15 of its last 22 events dating back to the 2023-24 campaign. TCU has finished even or under par in 12 of its last 21 final rounds in that span.
The Frogs pride themselves on culture and continuity, and those values are reflected in the team's recent roster construction. No players have transferred in or out of the program in each of the past two seasons.
TCU averaged 44.4 birdies per tournament last season.
The Frogs' roster has combined for two medals, 19 top-10's and 36 top-20's ahead of the Carmel Cup.
TCU is home to two players featuring in the top-150 of the latestWorld Amateur Golf rankings in Min-Gaultier (No. 69) and Barroso Sá (No. 137).

TCU Lineup
Sofia Barroso Sá

Is playing the No. 1 in TCU's lineup for the third consecutive tournament.
Two-time NCAA National Championships individual qualifier (2023, 2025).
Has twice been named to the Big 12 Championship All-Tournament Team (2023, 2025).
Achieved a career-high Scoreboard ranking of No. 68 in April and vaulted to No. 168 in WAGR in July.
Ranks second in program history in career scoring average (72.7).
Has tallied the fourth-most career birdies (302) of any TCU player and is 88 shy of becoming the program record holder.
Will make her 37^th career start as a Frog at Pebble Beach; has made TCU's lineup in every tournament throughout her collegiate tenure.
Tallied a team-leading 118 birdies in 2024-25, which are the second-most ever recorded in a season by a Horned Frog.
Has cracked the top-20 in 17-of-36 (.472) career events.
Won the Barbara Nicklaus Cup individual title as a freshman in 2022-23. She is the only first-year Frog to win a tournament in the last seven seasons dating back to 2018.

Camille Min-Gaultier

Named a WGCA All-American in 2024-25, becoming one of three freshmen in program history to receive All-American accolades.
2025 Big 12 Freshman of the Year; one of six players to receive a conference freshman of the year accolade for TCU.
Has finished no worse than 25^th in any tournament for TCU.
Led TCU in scoring average (72.2), sub-70's (10) and counters (32) in 2024-25.
Already owns the fifth-most sub-70 rounds in program history.
Scored par-or-better in 18-of-35 rounds last season.
Has finished as the individual runner-up in three tournaments.
Was one of eight amateur player selected to compete for the 2025 Continent of Europe Vagliano Trophy Team by the European Golf Association.
Reached the third round of match play at the British Women's Amateur Championship in June.

Gracie McGovern

Signed with TCU in November of 2023 as the world No. 9 junior amateur golfer and was ranked as high as seventh in the Rolex Junior Rankings that same year.
Produced TCU's best score over rounds two and three in the Carmel Cup in 2024. She shot a four-over 148 over the final 36 holes on her way to a tie for 20^th.
Beginning with the Carmel Cup, she notched a top-20 in four of her first six events to begin her freshman year in 2024-25.
Started 11-of-12 tournaments for TCU last season.
Turned in eight counters and four rounds of par or better during the fall portion of the 2024-25 campaign.

Kirstin Angosta

Won the 2024 Jim West Challenge, shooting a 10-under 206.
Played the No. 1 in TCU's lineup at the 2024 Carmel Cup; anchored the top spot in four-of-five fall tournaments last season.
Averaged a team-leading 8.3 birdies per tournament during the 2024-25 regular season.
Was the only TCU player to maintain a top-100 Scoreboard ranking for the entirety of the 2024-25 campaign; achieved a career-best ranking of No. 55 following the fall season.
Has five career top-10's to her name, including four in 2024-25.
Scored par-or-better in nearly half of her rounds played (16-of-35) last year.
Capped her sophomore year with a 72.9 season scoring average.
2025 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship qualifier.

Yvette O'Brien

Signed with TCU in November of 2024.
Was ranked as high as No. 44 in the Global Junior Golf Rankings.
Graduated as the No. 1 overall player in the class of 2025 in Connecticut.
Earned an exemption into the U.S. Women's Amateur after winning the Connecticut Women's Amateur Championship.
Medaled three times as a high school junior.

Charlotte Cattaneo

Will compete in her sixth collegiate event and fourth as a member of TCU's lineup at Pebble Beach.
Was a member of a lineup that took second place at the TCU-hosted Battle of the Beach her freshman year in October of 2023.

Up Next
TCU treks to the Midwest for its second of five fall tournaments, the Inverness Intercollegiate on Sept. 15-16 in Toledo, Ohio. The event takes place at the historic Inverness Club, which has hosted four U.S. Opens, two PGA Tour Championships, two NCAA D1 Men's National Championships and most recently the 2021 Solheim Cup.

Schedule

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Players Mentioned

Kirstin Angosta

Sofia Barroso Sá

Charlotte Cattaneo

Gracie McGovern

Camille Min-Gaultier

Yvette O'Brien

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