The Fin
Freestone Lake & Golf Club
Fairfield, Texas
Hosted By Mississippi State
Mon Oct 19 - Wed Oct 21, 2026

Press release:

- The Aggies tee off at 9:30 a.m. CST at the Freestone Lake & Golf Club Monday morning to begin the tournament.
- Texas A&M is the highest ranked team in the field.
- The Maroon & White have won three of its last four tournaments that it has competed in inside of the Lone Star State.

FAIRFIELD, Texas - The No. 7 women's golf team is set to compete at The Fin Oct. 19-21 at the Freestone Lake & Golf Club, beginning with a 9:30 a.m. CST shotgun start Monday.

The Aggies have finished top three in the tournament standings in both of their first two outings this season. The Maroon & White won three of its four tournaments in the Lone Star State last year and have not finished outside of the top two in Texas since the 2024-25 campaign.

The Fin features 54 holes of action over the course of three days. Each round will consist of an early morning shotgun start.

Head Coach Gerrod Chadwell is bringing a lineup with All-Americans Vanessa Borovilos and Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio along with Louise Reau, Emerie Schartz and Natalie Yen. Borovilos, Fernandez Garcia-Poggio, Reau and Schartz have all played in every tournament this season for the Aggies. Yen will be making her sophomore debut and Sky Sudberry is set to compete as an individual.

The Field (WGCA Ranking)

Texas A&M (7)
Arkansas (12)
Mississippi State (19)
Vanderbilt (21)
Oklahoma State (25)
Oklahoma (28)
LSU (29)
Houston
Texas Tech

[note: OU won team and individual titles at their first tournament of the year, second at the second tournament and first team and individual titles at a tournament in early October, setting school records in the process at the October tournament. They have done very well all season, in both match and stroke play.]

Aggies

Cata (Sr, Madrid, Spain)
Vanessa (Jr, Etobicoke, Ontario)
Louise (Sr, Beziers, France)
Emerie (Fr, Wichita, Kansas)
Natalie (So, West Linn, Oregon)
Sky (IND, Sr, The Woodlands, Texas)


Live scoring

https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/246485/scoring/team

Everyone played well, but the course appeared to play difficult yesterday. Lady Ags in first at +1 after the first round.

Currently just starting round 2 and already off ti a better start than yesterday.

Freshman Emerie Schartz is leading lady Ags team A at -3 for the tournament and currently in sole first as an individual!

Good 11 stroke win by the ladies against a quality field! Cayetana and Vanessa turned it on the last 2 days to finish 3rd and T4 respectively.

Why is a tournament in Texas hosted by Mississippi State? Just wondering.

Same reason football games are held in pro stadiums no where close to the team's campus. Recruiting.

South Texas and North Texas are 2 of the 4 most fertile golf recruiting grounds. They hold a junior golf Ryder Cup style event every year for that reason. I believe they (and Southern California and Florida) make up about 1/3 of all US ranked junior golfers if I remember together. If you can hold your own in Houston or Dallas as a junior golfer, you can pretty much hold your own against anyone.

I believe this tournament was formerly called The Carmel Cup at Pebble Beach and put on by Finley Ewing from Dallas.
He moved it to Freestone and renamed it The Fin. His son is the golf coach at Miss State.

I played in the benefit tournament for our ladies' golf program a few weeks ago.

One of the holes was sponsored by Fin Ewing. I assume the same person who established the tournament the Aggie women played in. And Fin Ewing also was a sponsor at the Texas Golf HoF tournament in San Antonio.

Is Fin Ewing an Aggie?

no. He went to TCU. He just does A LOT for women's golf, especially in Texas.