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TCU Golf 2022-2023

JogginFrog

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TCU men are the only top-50 team in the 10-team field of the GCU Invitational, so the Frogs get a chance to see if they can deliver when expected to win. They had a great first round and a solid second round thanks to a 64 from Gustav Frimodt.

It looked like a 2-team battle between the Frogs and North Dakota State, but both teams have been stuck in neutral in round 3 while host GCU has pulled back 11 shots to get within 3.

Frimodt is 2 shots back of the individual lead with 6 holes to play.

See if TCU can pick up some hardware. Scoring
 

JogginFrog

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Frogs win! By a single shot over both NDSU and GCU. Nice redemption after not winning this event last year as the favorite.

Max Giboudot with a final-hole birdie to seal the deal. Team is better with him. Frimodt is individual runner up.
 
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JogginFrog

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David Ravetto had a sneaky-good career at TCU--often playing as the #3 but showing the ability to go low and win when he was on. And his pro career seems like it has the same trajectory. I totally missed that he finished as runner up at the DP World Tour Q School in November, closing with rounds of 64-65-64.

And after posting no top-20s in his first five starts, he's now the first-round leader in windy conditions at the Eurotour's event this week in South Africa.


In fact, two Frogs are in the top 4 early in round 2, with Julien Brun T4. Scoring.
 

JogginFrog

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Now, Brun is in the lead by a shot with his second round complete. Ravetto is T5 making the turn.

Meanwhile, the TCU women play in Tucson today after about a month off. Only one top-20 team in the field (San Jose State), but a bunch in quadrant 2, which is where the Frogs are, having dropped about 20 spots since the fall. They need a good result here. Caroline Jordaan gets her first start of the year as the Frogs attempt to find something in the 5 slot.
Scoring
 

JogginFrog

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TCU women lead through one round in Tucson behind a 65 from Caitlyn Macnab (T1). Sofia Barroso Sá and Sabrina Nguyen are also in the top 10 individually. Great round of -12 for the Frogs.
 

JogginFrog

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TCU women finish third in Tucson, and Caitlyn Macnab finishes third individually. Frogs finish ahead of 6th-ranked San Jose State, but the story was the unbelievable performance of Iowa State, which was way ahead after 2 rounds and then went 64-64-64-67 to post -29 for the round and -60 for the tournament, winning by 33. Amazing from a team ranked outside the top 20.

How good was ISU? The Cyclones...
1. Took 10 shots off the NCAA 54-hole scoring record (804 vs. the 814 that Stanford put up last year)
2. Took 4 shots off the NCAA 18-hole scoring record held by Alabama
3. Tied the individual 54-hole scoring record in relation to par (Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn shot -25)

Even with an easy course set up, those numbers are amazing. Anyway, TCU did well to shoot -22, and Macnab really shines when the course setup invites scoring.
 

JogginFrog

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New Golfstat rankings out yesterday have the TCU men at 27th following their strong showings in Las Vegas and Phoenix; the women are at 37th, climbing back a bit based on their Tucson performance.
 

Wexahu

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Anybody see Mad Dog go off on Tom Hoge the other day for flying coach? Sheesh. Live how you want to live.


Also, "journeyman" might have been an apt description of Hoge a few years back, but he's now the 25th-ranked golfer in the world. (BTW, J.J.'s best ranking was 58th.)

Don't know if this is normal for TH, but the perks you get for flying first class aren't anything close to what you pay for them. It's so dumb unless you truly do have money to just piss away. But of course, I'm not rich, and never have been. But I don't suspect my habits would change a great deal even if I was.

Rather than spend $700 extra for a 1st class seat on the 2-hour flight, imagine "suffering" in coach for a couple hours and then handing out $100 bills to seven people that day who you thought might need it. Not that I'd do that, I'd just buy the cheap ticket, but still, when you think about it that way....
 

JogginFrog

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Tom Hoge went 0 for Austin in the match play event.

In Johannesburg, cup-of-coffee Frog Alexander Knappe leads through 3 rounds, while Julien Brun is T10. Long-hitting native son James Hart DuPreez also made the cut.
 

JogginFrog

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TCU men are playing a 36-hole day at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, NC. The Frogs are the only top-40 team in the UNCW Seahawk Intercollegiate field, so this is another "prove-it" tournament. Gustav Frimodt is a surprising omission from the lineup, given his stellar play of late. Perhaps he's playing in another event, but I didn't see his name in the list for the Azalea Invitational, which seemed the most likely.

Anyway, Jack Beauchamp gets a start, along with Laussot, Oleson, Giboudot and Berzina. Frogs are a stroke off the lead with a few holes left in round 1. Scoring
 

frogfanatic03

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TCU men are playing a 36-hole day at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, NC. The Frogs are the only top-40 team in the UNCW Seahawk Intercollegiate field, so this is another "prove-it" tournament. Gustav Frimodt is a surprising omission from the lineup, given his stellar play of late. Perhaps he's playing in another event, but I didn't see his name in the list for the Azalea Invitational, which seemed the most likely.

Anyway, Jack Beauchamp gets a start, along with Laussot, Oleson, Giboudot and Berzina. Frogs are a stroke off the lead with a few holes left in round 1. Scoring
In the article it says Berzina replaced Gustav last minute. Apparently, they flew him in late in the evening. I believe the first round was his first time seeing the course.
 

JogginFrog

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TCU men lead Stetson by a shot through 36 holes at -17. Wright State and Campbell are 4 back.

Individually, Jacob Skov Olesen is T4 at -7, 3 back of the leader. Jack Beauchamp is T8 at -5; great to see another freshman playing well. Laussot also in the top 15. Final round today.
 

JogginFrog

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Frogs in a tight match with a hole to play against Wright State. TCU moved ahead with 3 birdies on the 18th, playing as the easiest hole. Wright State still has 4 guys out on the second-easiest hole.

Aymeric Laussot is 2 back of the individual lead; 1 back of the clubhouse leader.
 

JogginFrog

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Frogs win! By a shot--second time in a month.

Aymeric Laussot finishes T3.

Nice work, Frogs--especially with a last-minute replacement.

By the way, while TCU and Wright State were battling, host team UNC-Wilmington nearly came back to win the event, going 9 under on their last 3 holes--with a four-man team, no less, their fifth player having dropped out mid-round. They wound up 2 shots short.
 
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JogginFrog

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TCU alum Sabrina Iqbal is on the course at Champions Retreat for her second crack at the Augusta National Women's Amateur tournament. Since earning a degree in entrepreneurship and innovation, she has played in three WAGR points-earning events, including a runner-up finish in last summer's Texas Women's Open. She missed the cut in last year's ANWA. Iqbal is ranked 83rd among ams and is playing one group behind ex-teammate Jennie Park, who is ranked 80th.

Also playing is current TCU star Caitlyn Macnab, who finished 11th in last year's ANWA and is ranked 37th among amateur women. She tees off within the hour.

Scoring: https://www.anwagolf.com/en_US/scores/index.html
 

JogginFrog

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TCU men drop from 27th to 34th in the latest Golfstat rankings after winning the UNCW Seahawk Intercollegiate. How does that happen? Strength of field and margin of victory. With only 2 top-50 teams in the field, TCU was expected to win comfortably. When teams ranked in the 70s, 80s and 130s stayed within 10 shots of the Frogs, the models considered them to have underperformed.

And that shows the balance required in putting together a D1 golf schedule. You need enough weak-field events to ensure you finish over .500 to qualify for the NCAA tournament, but the risk of playing poorly in those events is very high.

Clemson, the other top-50 team, finished 7th in the event and dropped from 44th to 55th. The Tigers were 46-52 after finishing last in a 12-team field at Pinehurst in early March. They cleared .500 with a 4th-place finish the following week, and their finish in Wilmington puts them at 68-61 (but any wins against non-D1 teams don't count). They have one event before the ACC tournament--a bubble team both on record and ranking.

TCU women are ranked 35th this week.
 
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