TCU Golf 2025-2026

[JogginFrog]

Actually, with Jacob Skov Olesen ending up T4, it's three TCU degree-holders with a T6 finish or better in the same PGA Tour event. I have no doubt that's a first.

Springer's check will be close to $464,000. That'll cover costs for a while.

 

[Rose Bowl]

Playing Prairie Dunes in Kansas. Lineup looks good.

 

[JogginFrog]

There are two players ranked in the national top 10 at the men's Big 12 Championship. BYU's Kihei Akina (ranked #7) shot a 63 in round 1, good for a 4-shot lead over OSU's Preston Stout (ranked #5)...and TCU's Charlie Wylie (ranked #415), who shot a bogey-free 67 to keep the Frogs in the mix.

TCU was +5 through 7 holes and held on to shoot +3 as a team. They were in sixth starting the afternoon round but only 4 shots off the lead.

Scoring: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/239632/scoring/team

 

[Mean Purple]

There are two players ranked in the national top 10 at the men's Big 12 Championship. BYU's Kihei Akina (ranked #7) shot a 63 in round 1, good for a 4-shot lead over OSU's Preston Stout (ranked #5)...and TCU's Charlie Wylie (ranked #415), who shot a bogey-free 67 to keep the Frogs in the mix.

TCU was +5 through 7 holes and held on to shoot +3 as a team. They were in sixth starting the afternoon round but only 4 shots off the lead.

Scoring: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/239632/scoring/team

The Akina kid looked pretty sharp in the Western Intercollegiate.


and, yes, I'm still planning to go check Pastiempo out. May let them know they owe Wex a cut of the fee.

 

[JogginFrog]

The Akina kid looked pretty sharp in the Western Intercollegiate.


and, yes, I'm still planning to go check Pastiempo out. May let them know they owe Wex a cut of the fee.

The 1930 photos from their pages on the restoration are amazing.

 

[JogginFrog]

Sam Udovich shoots a second-round 66 -- despite a triple -- to move the Frogs up to fourth place at the halfway mark of the Big 12 Championship. He's in 8th place individually.

A bunch of teams dropped back in round 2, including top-10 Arizona State, whom the Frogs lead by 15 shots. Oklahoma State made the move of the day, shooting 64-65-68-70 to lead by 7.

 

[JogginFrog]

Another solid day for the TCU men, who posted four par-or-better scores to move up to 3rd place at -1. Oklahoma State has a comfortable lead at -19 (Arizona is second at -10). TCU will work tomorrow to hold off Tech and KU, which lurk within 4 shots.

Individually, Sam Udovich is 10th; Lewis Wright and Charlie Wylie are T15.

 

[JogginFrog]

TCU men with another strong trip around Prairie Dunes today. The Frogs shot -2 today and -1 for the tournament to easily hold onto third--and they very nearly closed a 9-shot gap to Arizona for second. They beat 6th-ranked Tech by 8 10 shots and 10th-ranked Arizona State by 22.

Individually, Sam Udovich finished T4 at -4. He had a final-round 68, as did Jack Beauchamp. Lewis Wright and Charlie Wylie both earned top-20 finishes, and all five Frogs finished in the top 40 of the 80-player field.

Frogs have good momentum as they head to the NCAAs; they probably rise from a 7 seed to a 6 based on this finish.

 

[JogginFrog]

TCU women earn a 7 seed--they'll be close to home in the Waco Regional, and it'll be an old SWC revival with A&M, SMU, and Baylor all playing at Ridgewood Country Club, May 11-13.

 

[Rose Bowl]

Give the boys credit, they played well and finished 3rd one stroke behind Arizona. Okie St won but our guys played very strong.

 

[JogginFrog]

It's been a good three weeks of golf for Sam Udovich. Two weeks ago he finished T3 at the Mountaineer Invitational. Today he finished T4 at the Big 12 Championship, and in between he was co-medalist of the Wichita Falls local qualifier for the U.S. Open. He's -18 over his last 7 competitive rounds, where the field average was +20 (and that's throwing out all the over-80 moonshot rounds at the qualifier). Congrats to Sam!

 

[JogginFrog]

Men's NCAA selection show is Wednesday at 1p Central on Golf Channel. Brentley Romine projects the Frogs as a 6 seed (teams ranked 31-36) and has them playing in Columbus.

The other projected 6s are: Wake, Clemson, Louisville, Utah, and UCLA. Wake is hosting, so they'll be at home. The other regional sites are Columbus, Athens, Bryan, Tucson (Marana) and Corvallis. Unless there's a conference-balance issue, I'd expect the committee to send Clemson to Athens, Louisville to Columbus, the Frogs to Bryan, and UCLA/Utah to Tucson/Corvallis.

Another reason to expect that the Frogs will go to Bryan: Baylor won't be in the field, and SMU is not in Romine's projections. That could be an oversight, but the Ponies may have gotten clipped by the .500 rule after finishing 13th in the ACC tournament. It would be kind of delicious to see them stay home.

 

[JogginFrog]

Frogs do earn the 6 seed in the Bryan Regional (but the other 6 seeds were scattered differently than I predicted). And SMU is indeed out based on the .500 rule; they will have 2 guys competing in Bryan as individuals.

Here's the lineup. Top 5 teams at Traditions Club will advance:

1. Texas
2. North Carolina
3. Tennessee
4. New Mexico
5. Texas A&M
6. TCU
7. UNCW
8. UNLV
9. Colorado
10. Cincinnati
11. Chattanooga
12. Miami (Ohio)
13. UTRGV
14. Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Those top 5 are pretty solid. Frogs have played all but Tennessee head to head and have gone a combined 0-4-1, the tie being with A&M. Of the lower-seeded teams, Cincinnati has had the Frogs' number this season, going 3-1 head to head.

But TCU has momentum and won't be far from home. Go Frogs!

 

[JogginFrog]

Stefano Mazzoli has had a challenging start to his first full season on the DP World Tour--he's only made 4 cuts in 11 starts with no top-20s...and shot 89 in the final round of the Hero Indian Open.

But this week, he's gone 66-67-69 to sit solo second at the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship in Barcelona. The leader has a five-shot cushion, but anything in the top 4 would more than double Stefano's largest payday in his 10-year pro career.

Mazzoli has so much talent--would love to see him play well tomorrow and win the Damm tournament!

Edit: Mazzoli with a final-round 76. Can't let opportunities like that go wasting.

 

[Mean Purple]

OT:
A look at Aronimink.

 

[JogginFrog]

TCU women not off to a great start at regionals. When you're looking up the leaderboard at Tarleton, gonna be tough to advance.

https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/243265/scoring/team

 

[Wexahu]

OT:
A look at Aronimink.

Looks like a great golf course but I suspect scores will be very low for a major. Don't see a lot of really high stress shots (for the pros of course) on that video, I hope the rough is really nasty.

 

[gohornedfrogs]

Looks like a great golf course but I suspect scores will be very low for a major. Don't see a lot of really high stress shots (for the pros of course) on that video, I hope the rough is really nasty.

They shot 20 under there in the BMW Championship in 2018, but that was in September. May in PA produces some pretty juicy, wet rough, but it hasn't been a wet spring in the Philly area. It all depends on how far the PGA of America wants to go. My guess is they would like a winning score of around 14 under. It's not a long course. A lot of 420-440 yard par 4s (and less). Those are wedges for those guys.

 

[Wexahu]

They shot 20 under there in the BMW Championship in 2018, but that was in September. May in PA produces some pretty juicy, wet rough, but it hasn't been a wet spring in the Philly area. It all depends on how far the PGA of America wants to go. My guess is they would like a winning score of around 14 under. It's not a long course. A lot of 420-440 yard par 4s (and less). Those are wedges for those guys.

That's what I was thinking. It would probably have to be pretty extreme for the winner to be around -14, although that's pretty damn low on a par 70. Roughly the equivalent of -20 or so on a par 72.

400-450 yard par 4's with relatively wide fairways and without much in the way of penalty shot potential probably means some very low scores. It'll be a parade of 90-120 yards wedge shots into greens with how far these guys hit it.

That's what is so maddening about Hanse, this fixation on wide driving areas. He does it to almost every one of his designs/restorations. If you look at an Aronimink google earth image from 10 years ago and compare it to today, almost every fairway is 5-10 yards wider. The one thing you can to do to kind of neutralize the changes in the equipment and the game in the past 20 years and he goes the opposite direction. I don't get it. It just makes for some uninteresting golf at the elite level.

 

[Mean Purple]

They shot 20 under there in the BMW Championship in 2018, but that was in September. May in PA produces some pretty juicy, wet rough, but it hasn't been a wet spring in the Philly area. It all depends on how far the PGA of America wants to go. My guess is they would like a winning score of around 14 under. It's not a long course. A lot of 420-440 yard par 4s (and less). Those are wedges for those guys.

It's been pretty cool to learn about how they set up a course for the pros. It can make it a totally different world.

For the PGA, supposedly those greens don't need much from fairway work to make them a rank ride. They have that bowl like depression in parts that can be a game changer.

oh, by the way, I recently got to do something where a learned a fewe things about how they set up a course for the pros.
it was really cool. towards the end a friend jokingly asked, "do you guys hire out for landscaping?"

The guy from the PGA reponded, 'You can't afford us."