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The Ally
Preview: The Ally
10/3/2026 9:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
TCU heads to Mississippi for midpoint of fall season
FORT WORTH – TCU women's golf is embarking on its busiest stretch of the 2026-27 season.
The Horned Frogs will play three tournaments in as many weeks, beginning with The Ally at historic Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi. The three-day, stroke play affair runs from Monday-Wednesday and is hosted by Mississippi State.
The Ally, formerly known as the Magnolia Invitational, was renamed in 2020 in honor of Ally Ewing, who is married to Bulldogs head coach Charlie Ewing and enjoyed a nine-year career on the LPGA Tour.
The field consists of 17 teams. Including TCU, six teams are ranked inside the Golfweek top-30. Joining the 27th-ranked Horned Frogs at Old Waverly, the site of the 1999 U.S Women's Open, are No. 7 Florida, No. 9 Vanderbilt, No. 10 Oklahoma State, No. 22 Mississippi State and No. 24 Ole Miss.
Leading the lineup for TCU are Kirstin Angosta, Camille Min-Gaultier and Ella Forss. The trio all finished under par in the Horned Frogs' most recent outing, the Schooner Fall Classic, on Sept. 19-21 in Norman, Oklahoma.
Angosta is teeing off in the top spot for the fifth time in her career. She has notched four consecutive top-10's dating back to the Big 12 Championship in March. Angosta tied for sixth place at six-under 204 in Norman.
Min-Gaultier is TCU's active career leader in scoring average (72.0), top-10's (11), top-20's (19), sub-70's (18) and countable rounds (71). The sophomore has been TCU's top performer in 12 of her 26 career starts.
Forss, a freshman from Sweden, has scored par or better in three-of-six rounds thus far. She tied for seventh at the Japan-based Pan Pacific University Golf Super League tournament in TCU's season-opener and placed T24 at the Schooner Fall Classic.
Rounding out the TCU contingent are Gracie McGovern and Sofie Dimitrova. McGovern has posted a 71.3 combined scoring average in fall invitationals over the last two seasons. Dimitrova made her season debut at the Schooner Fall Classic. She shot an even-par 70 in round one.
TCU has finished fifth-or-better in both of its tournaments to begin the year. The Horned Frogs came in fifth at eight strokes under par at the Schooner Fall Classic after notching a runner-up finish in Japan.
The Ally
Date: Oct. 5-7
Location: West Point, Mississippi
Course: Old Waverly Golf Club
Par/Yardage: 72/6,240 yards
Schedule: 18 holes of stroke play all three days, with teams repairing for rounds two and three based on results
Scoring Format: Five-count-four
Live Scoring: Scoreboard.Clipped.com
The Course – Old Waverly Golf Club
Designed by U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate, Old Waverly Golf Club has consistently been challenged by the sport's elite since opening in 1988. The course was the site of the 2006 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur and 2019 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship and has twice hosted the SEC Women's Championship. Old Waverly Golf Club was ranked No. 75 on Golf Digest's "America's 100 Greatest Public Courses" list in 2024-25 and has since transitioned to private membership.
The Field
#7 Florida
#9 Vanderbilt
#10 Oklahoma State
#22 Mississippi State
#24 Ole Miss
#27 TCU
Augusta University
Georgia Southern
Indiana
Jacksonville State
James Madison
Kentucky
Lipscomb
Louisiana Monroe
Mercer
Southern Miss
Virginia Tech
Noting the Horned Frogs
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Five of the eight Horned Frogs are upperclassmen, giving Ravaioli-Larkin her oldest roster since 2022-23.
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Scanning the squad, the Horned Frogs have combined for two medals, 28 top-10's and 49 top-20's over the course of their careers.
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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.
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The Horned Frogs have either qualified as a team or sent individuals to the NCAA Tournament in 24 consecutive seasons dating back to 2002.
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TCU was the fourth highest-rated Big 12 team in the Golfweek preseason rankings, behind only No. 10 Oklahoma State, No. 17 Iowa State and No. 18 Arizona State, and one of six conference affiliates featured.
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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.
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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.
TCU Lineup
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Shot even or under par in all three rounds at the Schooner Fall Classic and has scored par or better in 13 of her last 18 rounds played as a Frog, dating back to March
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Has maintained a 70.5 scoring average across her last six starts
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Tied for eighth at the 2026 NCAA National Championship – the first top-10 finish by a TCU golfer at Nationals in 41 years – with a score of five-under 183
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Finished as the outright runner-up at the 2026 NCAA Waco Regional to qualify for Nationals
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2026 All-Big 12 Championship tournament team honoree
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2024 Jim West Challenge champion
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Concluded the 2025-26 campaign ranked No. 87 nationally
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Is TCU's most experienced player, as she will make her team-leading 32nd career start in Mississippi
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2025 WGCA All-American
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2025 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
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Two-time All-Big 12 first team honoree
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Is currently No. 79 in the world amateur golf rankings
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Achieved a career-high Scoreboard ranking of No. 41 in March
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Ranks second in program history for career scoring average (72.0) and third for sub-70's; needs six sub-70 rounds to break TCU's all-time record, set by Sabrina Iqbal in 2022.
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One of 72 players to tee it up at the 2026 Augusta National Women's Amateur
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Reached the quarterfinals of the R&A Amateur Championship in June
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Only TCU player to shoot par or better in multiple rounds at the Pan Pacific University Golf Super League tournament; carded an even-par 71 in rounds two and three
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Five-time winner on the Swedish Junior Tour and three-time winner on the Global Junior Golf Tour
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2025 Swedish Junior Champion
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Tied for third at the 2025 European Girls Team Championship
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Is the second player from Sweden in program history
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2025 Schooner Fall Classic champion
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Was ranked as high as ninth in the Rolex AJGA rankings before signing with TCU in 2023
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Notched her third career top-10 at the Pan Pacific University Golf Super League tournament on Sept. 4
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Has produced a 71.3 combined scoring average in fall invitationals over the last two seasons
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Averaging a 72.3 across her last six rounds played as a Frog.
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Is competing for TCU for the 25th time
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Delivered a counter in more than 75 percent of her rounds played (25-33) last season
Up Next
TCU continues its torrid stretch with a visit to Medinah Country Club, which hosted the 2026 President's Cup, on Oct. 12-13 for the Illini Invitational. The Horned Frogs return home for all of two days before heading south for their fall finale, the Jim West Challenge, on Oct. 18-19 in San Marcos, Texas.
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