Corey Maggard promoted to Auburn associate head men’s golf coach
AUBURN, Ala. (auburntigers.com)– Corey Maggard has been promoted to Auburn associate head men’s golf coach, head coach Nick Clinard announced on Wednesday.
Maggard is entering his third season at Auburn as the Tigers had the fourth best NCAA Championship finish in school history by finishing 12th in 2015 in his first season.
Maggard was a semifinalist for the Jan Strickland Award for the National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2016 as selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
“Corey is an outstanding young coach that has done a tremendous job the past two years at Auburn,” said Clinard. “He continues to impress me with his professionalism, recruiting, player development and commitment to excellence on a daily basis. Auburn Golf has a bright future, and I’m sure glad he’s on my team.”
Auburn, which finished tied for 19th at the NCAA Championship, won four tournaments in 2015-16 including the Carpet Capital Collegiate, U.S. Collegiate Championship, Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate and the Seminole Intercollegiate while finishing as runner-up in four others.
The Tigers had five medalists with Michael Johnson winning three, the Primland Collegiate, Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate and the Schenkel Invitational. Freshman Graysen Huff won the ASU Fall Beach Classic while Will Long was co-medalist at the U.S. Collegiate Championship.
Michael Johnson, who was on the United States’ Palmer Cup team, was named first-team All-American and was a semifinalist for both the Jack Nicklaus Award and Ben Hogan Award and was on the Haskins Award Watch List. Jacob Solomon was a Freshman All-SEC selection in 2016. Johnson and Solomon were both named to the PING All-Southeast Region team.
Auburn won three consecutive tournaments with three straight medalists, all different, in the Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate, Tiger Invitational Presented by Jason Dufner and the Schenkel Invitational in 2014-15.
Ben Schlottman was named Golfweek honorable mention All-American, the first freshman in school history to receive All-America honors.
Five Tigers were named to the NCAA All-Southeast Region team as No. 1 Illinois and No. 2 Texas were the only three schools in the nation to have five players named NCAA All-Region.
Schlottman and Matt Gilchrest were both named first-team All-SEC while Johnson was a second-team selection. Schlottman also became the first Auburn freshman to be named All-SEC first-team in history while also being tabbed SEC Freshman of the Year.
Auburn destroyed the school’s team single-season stroke average record by averaging 283.23 strokes per round in 2015 with the previous mark being 285.30 set in 2011-12.
Schlottman recorded the fourth lowest single season stroke average in school history and set the Auburn freshman record averaging 70.96.
Auburn climbed to being ranked fourth nationally in 2014-15 after winning two consecutive tournaments in the Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate and the Tiger Invitational Presented by Jason Dufner by 28 shots, the largest margin of victory in school history. Auburn then won the Schenkel Invitational at 41-under, edging No. 5 Vanderbilt by a stroke, for its third-straight win.
Prior to coming to Auburn in 2014-15, Maggard won four-straight Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championships in his four years as head men’s golf coach at Div. III Guilford College.
Maggard, who led Guilford to 16 tournament wins in his four seasons, was named the Jack Jensen ODAC Coach of the Year three-straight seasons from 2011-13. Guilford spent time ranked No. 1 in the nation by Golf World and in the Golfstat.com rankings in 2011 and 2012 as the Quakers finished ninth at the 2011 NCAA Div. III Championship, 11th in 2012 and 17th in both 2013 and 2014.
