{"id":687759,"date":"2026-05-23T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:42:09","slug":"angosta-surges-into-contention-at-ncaa-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687759\/","title":{"rendered":"Angosta Surges into Contention at NCAA National Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kirstin-angosta\/17700\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17700\" target=\"_blank\">Kirstin Angosta<\/a> carried her red-hot form to southern California and is poised to challenge for a national title.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe TCU junior fired a three-under 69 in the round one of the NCAA D1 Women&#8217;s Golf Championship on Friday at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAngosta carded six birdies \u2013 tied for the most of any competitor in the 156-player field \u2013 and is tied for third following the first day of play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Las Vegas native teed off with the early groups on the front nine. She began her day with a birdie on the first green and shaved another stroke off her scorecard on hole four. A trio of bogeys between holes nine through 12 brought Angosta back to even par.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFrom there, Angosta steadied and closed hard. She picked up a birdie on three of her final five holes, including back-to-back on 16 and 17. Angosta signed for a two-under 34 on the second nine.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe will start Saturday&#8217;s second round just one stroke back of co-leaders Megha Ganne (Stanford) and Ellie Bushnell (Oklahoma State).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAngosta, who played her final two years of prep golf at Coppell High School, was one of 21 players to finish under par. She tops the field in par-4 scoring (-4, 3.60).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAngosta is the first TCU player to shoot in the 60&#8217;s at Nationals. She broke TCU&#8217;s program records for low round and low-18 vs. par.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe notched her third consecutive sub-70 round and 11th\u00a0of her career with the performance. Angosta has now scored par or better in seven of her last 13 rounds played dating back to the Charles Schwab Women&#8217;s Collegiate Invitational in March.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe standout start has Angosta in solid shape to advance to the final round of the stroke play portion of the NCAA Championships. The nine highest-placing individuals on non-advancing teams play a final 18 holes on Monday to determine the NCAA Individual Champion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAngosta will begin round two on the back nine and tee off at 4:02 p.m. CT on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0Kirstin Angosta carried her red-hot form to southern California and is poised to challenge for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-687759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}