Preview: Schooner Fall Classic

FORT WORTH – Fresh off its best round of the season, No. 24 TCU will look to carry the momentum north to Norman, Okla., for the 13^th Schooner Fall Classic.

The 54-hole stroke play event runs from Saturday-Monday at Belmar Golf Club.

The tournament is an annual early season proving ground. Including TCU, nine of the 16 teams in the field qualified for NCAA Regionals last season, five of which advanced to the NCAA Championship. It's also a de-facto Big 12 preview. Half of the league's women's golf programs will join TCU north of the Red River Boundary, among them Houston, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and UCF.

The Horned Frogs lineup is Camille Min-Gaultier, Sofia Barroso Sa, Sofie Dimitrova, Yvette O'Brien and Gracie McGovern.

The top four players teed it up earlier this week at the Inverness Intercollegiate. The Horned Frogs shot a five-over 289 on Tuesday – the second-lowest score of any team in any round – and finished fifth. Min-Gaultier placed third outright to notch her second top-10 in as many starts. The 2025 All-American has been TCU's top finisher in both fall tournaments and in five of the Frogs' last eight events dating back to March.

TCU is competing in the Schooner Fall Classic for the seventh consecutive season. The Horned Frogs have twice finished second. TCU's most recent vice championship at Belmar came in 2022, when Caitlyn Macnab shot a 10-under 200 and set the individual low-54 tournament record in 2022. The Frogs placed fourth in 2024 in a tournament that was shortened to 36 holes due to weather.

The Schooner Fall Classic was started in 2013 by late country music star Toby Keith. An avid fan of college golf, Keith co-owned Belmar Golf Club and presented the team champion with a signed guitar each year until his death in 2024. The event continues in his honor and all tournament proceeds benefit the Toby Keith Foundation, which supports children battling cancer.

Schooner Fall Classic
Dates: Sept. 20-22
Location: Norman, Okla.
Course: Belmar Golf Club
Par/Yardage: 70/6,182 yards
Schedule: 18 holes of stroke play each day, beginning with a 9 a.m. start all three days. Players will tee off on holes 1 and 10 in the first two rounds. Teams will then repair based on tournament results for the final round, which commences with a shotgun start.
Scoring format: Five-count-four
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.Clipped.com

The Course – Belmar Golf Club
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 (Golfweek/WGCA Coaches' Poll preseason ranking)
#18/16 Florida State
#20/22 Oklahoma State
#24/25 TCU
#28 Iowa State
Arkansas State
Georgia
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oral Roberts
Texas State
Tulane
Tulsa
UCF
Virginia Tech
Wisconsin

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

The Horned Frogs are the third highest-ranked Big 12 team in the Golfweek preseason rankings, behind only No. 5 Arizona State and No. 20 Oklahoma State.
TCU returns six letter winners and four members of its starting five from 2024-25, including three players who cracked the top-100 of the final Scoreboard rankings Min-Gaultier (No. 51), Barroso Sá (No. 75) and Angosta (No. 100).
TCU is home to two players featuring in the top-150 of the latest World Amateur Golf rankings in Min-Gaultier (No. 68) and Barroso Sá (No. 135).
The Horned 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's roster has combined for two medals, 21 top-10's and 40 top-20's ahead of the Schooner Fall Classic.
Dating back to 2024, TCU has placed outside the top-five of the final leaderboard in just three of its last 14 events.
TCU has recorded its low round score in the final round in exactly two-thirds of its events (16-of-24) dating back to the 2023-24 campaign. TCU has finished even or under par in 12 of its last 23 final rounds in that span.
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).
TCU averaged 44.4 birdies per tournament last season.
TCU carded 11 birdies and shot a two-under 142 on the back nine in the final round of the Inverness Intercollegiate. All five Frogs recorded their low-18 for the tournament in round three.
The Horned Frogs sat one stroke back of second place after 36 holes at the Carmel Cup in its season-opener. TCU carded a five-over 365, which was the second-lowest score of any team on day two of play at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
TCU won the 1983 NCAA D1 Women's Golf Championship. The tournament was held at the University of Georgia Golf Course and was the second NCAA-sanctioned event to determine a national champion. The 1983 Horned Frogs squad was the first TCU women's sports team to win an NCAA Championship. The triumph is one of eight NCAA team championships in TCU Athletics history and one of five women's titles.
The Horned Frogs have reached the NCAA Championships in 14 seasons: 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2022 and 2023.

TCU Lineup
Camille Min-Gaultier

Is playing the No. 1 in TCU's lineup for the fifth time in her career.
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.
Has scored par-or-better in nearly 50 percent (20-41) of her career rounds played.
Has finished as the individual runner-up in three tournaments.
Tied for eighth in TCU's season-opener at the Carmel Cup, one of her six career top-10's.
Birdied five of her final eight holes to place a solo third on Tuesday at the Inverness Intercollegiate.
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.

Sofia Barroso Sá

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.
Ranks second in program history in career scoring average (72.7).
Has tallied the fourth-most career birdies (318) of any TCU player and is 72 shy of becoming the program record holder. She will pass 2020 Olympian Sanna Nuutinen ('14) for third all-time should she card at least four in Norman.
Will make her 39^th career start as a Frog at Belmar; 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 half of her career events (19-of-38), including four straight in team-sponsored tournaments
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.

Sofie Dimitrova

Is teeing it up for the 14^th time as a Horned Frog and 11^th as a member of the starting lineup.
Playing the No. 3 in TCU's lineup for the second consecutive event.
Shot an even-71 on Tuesday to conclude play at the Inverness Club; was one of only 14 players to par the course.
She was the largest riser on the individual leaderboard in round three at Inverness; ascended 17 spots into a tie for 24^th.
Notched her first career top-10 at the 2024 Jim West Invitational, shooting a six-under 210.
Was TCU's top performer at the 2024 Big 12 Championship her freshman year. Collected a team-leading 10 birdies and tied for 26^th.
Won the Czech International Mid-Amateur Championship in July.
Closed out her summer with three top-10's in her final four starts.

Yvette O'Brien

Fired a one-under 71 on Aug. 30 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in the second round of the Carmel Cup; was the second-lowest 18-hole score of any TCU player at the tournament and signified an eight-stroke improvement from round one.
Finished T34 at the Inverness Invitational.
Was ranked as high as No. 44 in the Global Junior Golf rankings.
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.

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.
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.
Tied for 34^th in her season debut at the Carmel Cup.

Up Next
TCU will play its third tournament in a four-week span when it travels to Rocky Top on Oct. 5-7 for the Mercedes Benz Intercollegiate at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville, Tenn.

Schedule