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Golf Coaches Association of America announces 2022 Hall of Fame Class

The coaches will be inducted Dec. 5 in Las Vegas.

The Golf Coaches Association of America announced Tuesday its selections for the 2022 Hall of Fame class.

Mark Crabtree, David Lynn, Bill Montigel and Chris Young will be inducted at the GCAA Hall of Fame Reception and Awards Dinner on Dec. 5 in Las Vegas.

Crabtree’s coaching career began at Colorado State, where he took it from a non-scholarship program into a top-25 team and NCAA Championship contender in his nine seasons. CSU qualified for four consecutive NCAA Regionals and qualified for its first NCAA Championship appearance in 1999. Crabtree then took the head job at Louisville until he retired in 2020. He was the first coach in school history to lead the program into postseason play, appearing in 11 NCAA Regionals and advancing to four NCAA Championships. He won 30 tournaments, including three Big East titles, and had 23 individual medalists. Crabtree was a 2006 Colorado Hall of Fame inductee.

Lynn started with the Oklahoma Christian golf program in 1998 as an assistant and took the head job the next year, a position he help until 2008. Lynn came back in 2011 and led OC to the NAIA national championship. In the fall of 2012, he guided OC to the National Christian College Athletic Association national title. OC strung together a run of 16 straight top-four finishes in national-tournament play (either the NAIA or NCCAA Championship), a streak that began in 2000 and lasted through the 2015-16 campaign. Since being eligible for NCAA Division II postseason play in 2016, the Eagles have advanced to five Super Regionals and two national championship appearances. Their runner-up finish in 2022 is the highest finish by an Oklahoma Christian team in any sport in NCAA competition.

Montigel is in his 36th season leading TCU. He spent eight years as the Horned Frogs’ top men’s basketball recruiter and assistant coach prior to leading the men’s golf program. Montigel has helped TCU finish in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships 13 times. TCU has made 31 straight NCAA Regionals. Montigel is the only coach in any sport to be named coach of the year in four different NCAA Division I conferences.

In his 23rd season, Young continues to raise the bar for the Hutchinson Community College. After winning the program’s first NJCAA team national championship in 2021, Young and the Blue Dragons repeated as national champions in 2022. Hutchinson has tallied 21 consecutive NJCAA Tournament appearances, 13 PING All-Americans, 10 Jayhawk Conference titles, 10 NJCAA Tournament top-10 finishes, nine Jayhawk Conference individual champions, and two Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award recognitions, among others.

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Report: Longtime TCU men’s golf coach Bill Montigel will be out at year’s end as part of major departmental upheaval

The decision was not made by Montigel, who had a streak of 31 straight NCAA Regionals appearances snapped last year.

As part of an upheaval in the Texas Christian University athletics department, longtime men’s golf coach Bill Montigel will leave his job after the 2022-23 season, according to a story written by Mac Engel of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Montigel is approaching his 36th season at the helm of the Horned Frogs’ program and has mentored golfers such as PGA Tour player Tom Hoge and others along the way.

According to the story, the decision was not made by Montigel, who had a streak of 31 consecutive appearances at the NCAA Regionals snapped last year:

TCU director of athletics Jeremiah Donati confirmed that the longtime TCU men’s golf coach is expected to step down after the 2022-23 season.

According to multiple sources, Montigel’s contract was not renewed. He has told friends that he is not retiring and he wants to continue coaching.

Montigel, 68, has led the storied program through multiple conferences, and the team’s success far exceeds all the school’s other programs. He has been at the current Big 12 member for 45 years overall.

Under Montigel, TCU has captured eight conference championships and appeared in the NCAA Championship 20 times. The school’s best finish was in 1997 when current Tour pro J.J. Henry helped the Horned Frogs to a seventh-place finish.

Montigel told Golfweek in 2009 that he stumbled upon Hoge, who hails from North Dakota and who won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this year, by chance.

“I saw Tom play at the U.S. Amateur while he was still in high school. I knew then he had great potential,” Montigel said.

Montigel, who originally came to TCU as a basketball coach, told the Star-Telegram that he is still under contract for this year but didn’t discuss his future.

“I’m still the men’s golf coach under contract. I am committed to the TCU men’s golf program and looking forward to the upcoming year,” Montigel told the newspaper via text. “We have a great group of talented golfers coming into the program as well as seasoned players returning, and I am looking forward to a successful year.

“I know we have the guys and talent for a big 2022-23 season. As you probably know, one of our guys (Filippo Celli) just won the European Am.”

The news was shocking to many, but the school has seen massive departmental changes in the last two years. According to Engel:

Since June 2021, baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle left for Texas A&M; football coach Gary Patterson “stepped down;” volleyball coach Jim Kramer’s contract was not renewed and track and field coach Daryl Anderson was recently fired after 18 seasons.

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