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JogginFrog

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Springer was 2 off the cutline with 4 holes to play but has pulled one back and needs a birdie on his final 2 holes to get to the weekend and hang onto a chance to retain his card.

Update: Springer birdies his 17th and gets up and down on his 18th to make the cut (probably on the number). He'll need a strong weekend to move back into the top 125, but he has a chance!
 
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JogginFrog

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Avoiding a trip back to Q School is one of the highest-pressure situations in pro golf, and Hayden Springer seems to have a clutch gene. After making two late birdies yesterday to make the cut on the number, he's reeled off 6 birdies in 7 holes on the back nine today (longest putt: 18 feet) to move into the top 15. He now projects to move inside the top 125 and keep his Tour card...but there's 19 more holes to play and a bunch of guys still on the course.

Update: Springer pars the last for a 63.
 
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JogginFrog

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Springer is +1 on the day through 14. He'll need to pull back at least 2 shots--and maybe 3--on his last 4 holes to avoid Q School.

Update: He birdied 15 and 18, but rinsed his drive on 16, which sunk his chances. He will likely finish T30 for the week, not quite good enough to get into the top 125. But he made it through Q School last season, and he earned $1 million this season, so he's got a good foundation to work from.

Update 2: Post-round comments from Springer: https://www.nbcsports.com/golf/news...tional-sundays-of-joel-dahmen-hayden-springer

Update 3: A piece in The Fried Egg Monday pointed out that Joel Dahmen and Zac Blair both gained points through sponsor exemptions awarded during the last 4 weeks of the season that essentially made the difference in bumping Springer outside the top 125. Did Dahmen also bump Springer by beating him this past weekend? Yes. So, the lesson is: Play better...and/or market yourself better.
 
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Belated congrats to TCU alum Jacob Skov Olesen, who was among the 21 card-winners out of the 156-man field in the Euro Tour Q School last month. He was in contention to win the tournament through 5 days, then survived a shaky final round to get through on the number. The result led him to give up his amateur status and 2025 Masters invite (as British Am champ) in order to play full time on the DP World Tour. He then went to Australia, where he MC'd in Queensland and finished T27 at the Australian Open.

Interview after earning his card: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworl...l/school-s-out-the-story-of-final-stage-2024/
 
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JogginFrog

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Hoge T1 after Round 1 of the Sony.

In AZ, Scott Roden has posted a pair of top-5 finishes at 54-hole mid-winter amateur events with fields of 76 and 127 players. Hudson Wilt also posted a top 5.

In Portugal, Sofia Barroso Sa won the women's division of two mid-winter events, posting 54-hole scores of 213 and 210. These were co-ed events with only about 10 women in each field, but she beat her closest female competitor by 7 shots and 10 shots, and while I'm sure the women were playing up a tee box, her scores against the co-ed field were T5 and solo 2nd.
 
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TCU commit Nate Miller gets 15 seconds of fame (see 2:25ish) in a brief YouTube appearance in a Wesley Brothers/Grant Horvath vid. Apparently 25 collegians signed up for a retreat with those guys, who turned it into content by having the 25 compete for one of 3 slots in a 5 hole challenge competition with the hosts.

Miller made the cut into the top 7 by draining a 12-foot putt but was not among the 3 closest to the pin who made it into the challenge.
 
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JogginFrog

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After what one commenter called a "WD fest," Hayden Springer gets his first start on the PGA Tour this season--two spots opened up for players ranked 126-150 and Springer got one.

He's making the most of it--midway through Round 3, he is T1. One of the guys he is tied with is Joel Dahmen, who earned the last retained card at 125th on the points list.
 
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JogginFrog

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And just like that, a double-bogey on 11 takes him out of the top 10. A top-10 will earn him a spot in next week's field, so that's the first goal.
 
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ShreveFrog said:
Nice birdie finish for Springer. -4 for the tournament. Currently tied for 5th.
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That should get him into another event. Not sure if that'll be next week, as Pebble has become a "signature" event and the rules are messy. Used to be that the top 10 got automatic entry into the next event; now I'm seeing something about he top 10 on the current points list who didn't finish in last year's top 50. Springer is projected at 35th, and I suspect there will be more than 10 ahead of him who didn't finish in last year's top 50.

Edit: And he picks up $337K, which never hurts.
 
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TCU women kick off their spring slate today in the Collegiate Invitational in Guadalajara. The GoFrogs preview story said it is the program's first appearance in Mexico, but they played in Los Cabos just 3 years ago.

TCU projects to finish 3rd or 4th in the 12-team field, and it will be good to see how they fare against 11th- and 12th-ranked Virginia and Florida State. The Frogs might find Guadalajara Country Club to their liking, as it is a John Bredemus design.

I think Gracie McGovern, who earned a top-10 in the Frogs' last start, is playing in the 1 slot, which could be a good sign. If the freshman can emerge as a leader on this team, which is getting consistent play from upperclassmen and newcomer Camille Min-Gaultier, this team could make some noise.

It's a format I haven't seen before: 27 holes today; 27 tomorrow. Scoring: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/233004/scoring/team
 
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Frogs finish Round 1 tied for first with Florida State and Virginia. TCU discarded a 73, showing it's consistency from 1 through 5.

Update: At the halfway point, the Frogs are T2 at -1, four back of Florida State. All five TCU players are in the top 20, led by Kirstin Angosta (T7).
 
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The TCU women's team is as consistent as you'll find. Going into the final round, the Frogs are solo 2nd, 7 shots back of Florida State (which has 2 top-10 players) and 3 shots up on #11 Virginia.

Kirstin Angosta is -2, four off the lead.

This TCU squad is one of the few teams that wish tournaments were scored as 5-count-5 (or even 6-count-6) rather than 5-count-4. Individually, the Frogs are T6, T9, T12, T12, T12. Had all scores been counted through two rounds, TCU would be just 1 back of the lead and 14 shots clear of 3rd.
 
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TCU women finish 2nd in Guadalajara behind another stellar round from all 5 players. I can't recall another tournament where all 5 Frogs finished in the top 12 of a 60-player field. Meagan Winans was TCU's top finisher at solo 6th.

Florida State's Mirabel Ting lapped the field, shooting -12 to win by 6. That's the same margin the Seminoles beat the Frogs by; Florida State's 3-4-5 players were leaking oil down the stretch, but one of them managed a birdie-eagle finish to close the door.

TCU beat #11 Virginia by 7 and #25 Houston by 15. Frogs will could move into the top 20 next week. They're deserving of it.
 
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TCU women move up to 17th in the rankings, 3rd in the Big 12 (after the Arizona schools). Individually, Kirstin Angosta is 56th, Meagan Winans 93rd, Sofia Barroso Sa 96th, Camille Min-Gaultier 110th, Gracie McGovern 162nd.

Seeing that TCU is now looking down at Ole Miss in the rankings, I can't help but wonder how things might have played out if Caitlyn Macnab had stayed. I suspect she's happy from a career-development angle, having moved up from 50ish at TCU to 22nd last season and 36th so far this year. But teamwise, she's doing all the heavy lifting in Oxford--her best-ranked teammate is 132nd.

Then again, losing a player like that sends a message that everybody has to step up, and TCU has seen across-the-board improvement--and now they'll only lose one senior this year.

The TCU men are 46th. They could make the post-season if they find a way to get above .500 this spring. Individually, Joe Pagdin is 201st, Scott Roden 214th.
 
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TCU men kicked off their spring schedule on Sunday in Puerto Rico. Having faced some tough competition in the fall, this tournament was designed to help the Frogs get back to near .500--they are the only top-50 team in the 14-team field.

And so far, TCU has delivered, leading by 4 at -18 with just 6 holes to play. The beginning of the third round was moved up because rain is forecast on Tuesday.

Frogs lead Arkansas by 4 and everyone else by 12 or more. Joe Pagdin is T2 at -8, two off the individual lead. Jack Beauchamp is also in the top 10.
Scoring: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/233066/scoring/team
 
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TCU men get caught by Arkansas in the late going and finish as runners-up in Puerto Rico. That's an unfortunate end to a good tournament, where 4 of 5 starters finished in the top 15 individually, with Joe Pagdin solo 3rd and Jack Beauchamp T7.

That should put the Frogs just a shade under .500 for the season, which keeps them in the running for post-season play.
 

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