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Jim West Challenge
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10/16/2026 10:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Two-time event champion TCU returns to Kissing Tree Golf Club
FORT WORTH – TCU is headed to San Marcos to a familiar stomping ground for its fall season finale.
The Horned Frogs will tee it up at the Jim West Challenge from Sunday-Monday at Kissing Tree Golf Club. The venture south signifies the 11th straight year TCU is competing at the event.
The lineup for TCU will be Camille Min-Gaultier, Kirstin Angosta, Claire Swathwood, Ella Forss and Gracie McGovern. Henriette Gjelten is entered as an individual.
Teams will play two rounds on Sunday, followed by a final 18 holes on Monday.
Hosted by Texas State, the tournament affords TCU an opportunity to enter the offseason on a high note, as some of the great moments in recent program history have unfolded at Kissing Tree.
TCU is a two-time event champion. The Horned Frogs first won the event in 2018 and most recently claimed the crown in 2024, finishing 24 strokes under par for a one-shot victory. That year also saw Angosta earn individual medalist honors with a score of 10-under 206. TCU set a program record for low round vs. par (-17, 271) on the par-72 course in 2023.
The Horned Frogs are playing their third tournament in as many weeks. TCU placed 10th at the Illini Invitational at Medinah on Tuesday in its most recent outing.
Min-Gaultier has twice placed as TCU's top performer. She notched her 20th career top-20 finish at Medinah. A two-time All-Big 12 first team player, Min-Gaultier boasts a 72.0 career scoring average, the second-best mark in program history.
Angosta has scored par-or-better in six of her seven rounds thus far in the 2026-27 campaign. TCU's sole senior competing, Angosta birdied three of her final four holes at the 2024 Jim West Challenge to capture the individual title and lead TCU to the team championship.
The freshman Forss leads TCU with two top-10 finishes.
McGovern, along with Angosta and Min-Gaultier, was a member of the Horned Frogs' championship squad at Kissing Tree in 2024. She tied for 18th at one-under 215 in the event last season.
Swathwood is making her third career start as a Frog. The junior transfer signed for a 70 (-2) in the opening round of the Illini Invitational.
Jim West Challenge
Date: Oct. 12-13
Location: San Marcos, Texas
Course: Kissing Tree Golf Club
Par/Yardage: 72/6,236 yards
Schedule: 36 holes of continuous play on Monday, followed by a final 18 holes on Tuesday
Scoring format: Five-count-four
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.Clipped.com
The Course – Kissing Tree Golf Club
Kissing Tree Golf Course is a semi-private 18-hole golf course set on the banks of the Texas Hill Country. The course opened in October 2018 and is managed by the world-renowned golf industry leader, Troon Golf. Designed by local Texan, Gary Stephenson, KTGC serves as an extension of the natural landscape – blending grades of edges, slopes, and contours of the landscape into its striped fairways and angulated greens.
The Field
Boise State
Denver
Missouri
New Mexico
North Texas
Northern Illinois
Notre Dame
Rice
TCU
Texas State
UNLV
Noting the Horned Frogs
More than three months will have passed when TCU next returns to the fairways. The Horned Frogs open the spring portion of the 2026-27 season on Jan. 29-30 at the Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club.
The Horned Frogs will tee it up at the Jim West Challenge from Sunday-Monday at Kissing Tree Golf Club. The venture south signifies the 11th straight year TCU is competing at the event.
The lineup for TCU will be Camille Min-Gaultier, Kirstin Angosta, Claire Swathwood, Ella Forss and Gracie McGovern. Henriette Gjelten is entered as an individual.
Teams will play two rounds on Sunday, followed by a final 18 holes on Monday.
Hosted by Texas State, the tournament affords TCU an opportunity to enter the offseason on a high note, as some of the great moments in recent program history have unfolded at Kissing Tree.
TCU is a two-time event champion. The Horned Frogs first won the event in 2018 and most recently claimed the crown in 2024, finishing 24 strokes under par for a one-shot victory. That year also saw Angosta earn individual medalist honors with a score of 10-under 206. TCU set a program record for low round vs. par (-17, 271) on the par-72 course in 2023.
The Horned Frogs are playing their third tournament in as many weeks. TCU placed 10th at the Illini Invitational at Medinah on Tuesday in its most recent outing.
Min-Gaultier has twice placed as TCU's top performer. She notched her 20th career top-20 finish at Medinah. A two-time All-Big 12 first team player, Min-Gaultier boasts a 72.0 career scoring average, the second-best mark in program history.
Angosta has scored par-or-better in six of her seven rounds thus far in the 2026-27 campaign. TCU's sole senior competing, Angosta birdied three of her final four holes at the 2024 Jim West Challenge to capture the individual title and lead TCU to the team championship.
The freshman Forss leads TCU with two top-10 finishes.
McGovern, along with Angosta and Min-Gaultier, was a member of the Horned Frogs' championship squad at Kissing Tree in 2024. She tied for 18th at one-under 215 in the event last season.
Swathwood is making her third career start as a Frog. The junior transfer signed for a 70 (-2) in the opening round of the Illini Invitational.
Jim West Challenge
Date: Oct. 12-13
Location: San Marcos, Texas
Course: Kissing Tree Golf Club
Par/Yardage: 72/6,236 yards
Schedule: 36 holes of continuous play on Monday, followed by a final 18 holes on Tuesday
Scoring format: Five-count-four
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.Clipped.com
The Course – Kissing Tree Golf Club
Kissing Tree Golf Course is a semi-private 18-hole golf course set on the banks of the Texas Hill Country. The course opened in October 2018 and is managed by the world-renowned golf industry leader, Troon Golf. Designed by local Texan, Gary Stephenson, KTGC serves as an extension of the natural landscape – blending grades of edges, slopes, and contours of the landscape into its striped fairways and angulated greens.
The Field
Boise State
Denver
Missouri
New Mexico
North Texas
Northern Illinois
Notre Dame
Rice
TCU
Texas State
UNLV
Noting the Horned Frogs
- Head coach Angie-Ravaioli Larkin is in her 33rd season at the helm of TCU women's golf. A lifelong Texan, Ravaioli-Larkin is the longest-tenured head coach across all Big 12 women's sports 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 has led TCU to 21 team titles in her TCU tenure, including five conference championships spanning three conferences. A total of 15 of her players have won individual medals.
- Ravaioli-Larkin's teams are known for an exceptional commitment in the classroom. She has mentored 47 WGCA All-American Scholars. Last season, all seven Horned Frogs received Academic All-Big 12 Team recognition, three of whom were cited as WGCA Academic All-Americans.
- There may not be a more accomplished coaching staff in college women's golf than TCU's trio of Ravaioli-Larkin, Greg Robertson and Angela Stanford. In September, TCU announced the addition of Stanford, the 2026 U.S. Solheim Cup captain, as an assistant coach. Stanford, the most accomplished player in program history, teed it up in an LPGA Tour record 98 consecutive majors from 2002-04. During the offseason, Ravaioli-Larkin brought in Robertson as the program's associate head coach. Robertson, a 13-time conference champion coach, remains one of only three head coaches in college women's golf history to reach match play in multiple seasons with two different schools.
- TCU returned five letter winners from the 2025-26 campaign, a group headlined by two-time All-Big 12 first team honoree Camille Min-Gaultier and fellow upperclassmen Kirstin Angosta, who tied for eighth at the 2026 NCAA National Championship.
- Five of the eight Horned Frogs are upperclassmen, giving Ravaioli-Larkin her oldest roster since 2022-23.
- Scanning the squad, the Horned Frogs have combined for two medals, 29 top-10's and 51 top-20's over the course of their careers.
- 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 out of the program for three straight seasons.
- The Horned Frogs have either qualified as a team or sent individuals to the NCAA Tournament in 24 consecutive seasons dating back to 2002.
- Going back in time, 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 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. Forever commemorating the achievement, the title-winning team was inducted into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2023 to celebrate the 40-year anniversary of its championship.
More than three months will have passed when TCU next returns to the fairways. The Horned Frogs open the spring portion of the 2026-27 season on Jan. 29-30 at the Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club.
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