TCU Golf 2019-2020

[JogginFrog]

Angela Stanford doing a live Twitter Q&A on Solheim Cup assistant captaincy. Just starting: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOGwodVBdLGB

Update: Interviewer mentioned Angela playing for TCU and asked if anyone had reached out to her. She said Coach Ravaioli-Larkin called this a.m. Nice shoutout for the Frogs.

 

[JogginFrog]

This year's Charles Schwab Challenge believed to feature the most Horned Frogs ever in a PGA tournament field (3). Besides Tom Hoge and J.J. Henry, Colonial member and TCU '08 (and Paschal High '04) alum Franklin Corpening is in the field on a sponsor's exemption. Corpening has played in the tournament at least twice before; notably, he shot a final-round 62 in 2013 to finish T14.

Corpening played on the Korn Ferry (then Web.com) tour in 2013-2014 and had 10 starts in 2018 on the Mackenzie tour. Good luck to all three Frogs this week!

 

[JogginFrog]

While the three TCU alums in the Colonial field were on the wrong side of par Thursday (Corpening +1, Hoge +2, Henry +5), another Horned Frog was at the top of the leaderboard. Paul Barjon fired a bogey-free 6-under 64 to lead the Korn Ferry Challenge at TPC Sawgrass.
First-round story: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-...-at-korn-ferry-challenge-at-tpc-sawgrass.html

Barjon currently sits 12th in the KF Tour's point standings. Top 25 for the year punch their ticket to the big show. Follow progress here:
https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-...ry-challenge-at-tpc-sawgrass/leaderboard.html

 

[JogginFrog]

Rising TCU sophomore Trinity King and recent grad Annika Clark both make the 54-hole cut at the Kathy Whitworth Paris Championship at the Paris (TX) Golf & Country Club, part of the Women's All-Pro Tour, which is the next level down from the Symetra Tour.

Clark shot her second straight 68 and is -2 for the tournament (solo 9th), just three shots back of the lead. King leads the field in birdies and is the only one of four amateurs to make the cut (top 30 and ties in the 80-player field) at +2 (T23).

Track scores:
https://wapt.bluegolf.com/bluegolfw/wapt20/event/wapt2010/contest/1/leaderboard.htm

The winner gets a start in an unspecified future Symetra Tour event. Beyond that, the only season-long reward is a pass to Stage 2 of LPGA qualifying series for the top 3 points earners, per the WAPT website.

Update: Clark finishes T22, earning $588. King finishes T31.

 

[Frognosticator]

Trinity, Jennie and Sabrina are going to be a core that gets come Natty's in the next couple-three years.

 

[JogginFrog]

Trinity, Jennie and Sabrina are going to be a core that gets come Natty's in the next couple-three years.

They are a solid core, and with incoming freshman Lois Lau, they won't need to wonder where the fourth counting score will come from. Lau is ranked 240 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, which is below Iqbal but above King and Park. Frogs should be a solid top-25 team for the next two years. "Natty's" might be a stretch, but I'll be surprised if they don't make nationals.

By the way, Greta Bruner announced last week that she'll return to TCU for a super-senior season in '20-'21. Unlikely that she will regain her all-conference form from a couple of years ago, but great to have her back on the roster.