He also spear-headed the most successful season in USD history in 2009-10, leading the Toreros to a school-record five tournament victories and 10 top-five team finishe In addition to advancing to NCAAs the final three seasons, Mickelson guided the program to the NCAA Regionals five of his final six seasons, including the last four. The younger brother of Sun Devil and PGA Tour professional Phil Mickelson, Tim arrived at ASU following a remarkable eight-year run at USD where he steadily built the program into a national contender as it finished in the Top 20 each of his last three years (2009-11), including an eighth-place finish in 2010. Mickelson, a four-time West Coast Conference Coach of the Year honors, was the 13th coach in the history of the program which won national titles in 1990 (under Steve Loy) and 1996 (under Randy Lein). ASU posted 163 wins in 2014-15 and came back with 149 in Mickelson's final season, just five years removed a 62-win BEST HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDS Since head-to-head became an official statistic over a decade ago, ASU’s most wins prior to the 2014-15 season was in 2005-06 when it was 142-52-5. 21-23, 2014)Ĭullum Invitational (tied for team title but no playoff/September 17-18, 2011) 3-4, 2015)ĪSU Thunderbird Invitational (Mar. 16-18, 2015)ĪSU Thunderbird Invitational (Apr. NCAA Albuquerque Regional (May 16-18, 2016)Īrizona Intercollegiate (Jan. Both Rahm and Rottluff were selected for Team Europe in the 2016 Palmer Cup.ĪSU'S EIGHT TEAM TOURNAMENT VICTORIES UNDER TIM MICKELSON It won tournaments in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Oregon as the five team wins was the most since the 1995-96 team won six tournaments en route to ASU's second NCAA title. Mickelson led the team to five tournament victories in 2014-15, all of them happening in the spring. Rahm also won the 2016 Jack Nicklaus Award. He led ASU to eight team titles and recruited and mentored the only two-time Ben Hogan Award winner, Jon Rahm, who also won the 2016 Pac-12 Tournament and All-American Max Rottluff. It marked the first Pac-12 Coach of the Year for ASU in 15 seasons, as former Sun Devil coaches Randy Lein (2000, 1999, 1996, 1995, 1993), Steve Loy (1990, 1989) and George Boutell (1981, 1979) also earned the honor. Tim Mickelson, who had led the University of San Diego to the school's first three NCAA appearances in program history, was named Sun Devil head men's golf on July 10, 2011, and coached at ASU for five seasons through the 2015-16 season, including earning the 2014-15 Pac-12 Coach of the Year Award. Coach Tim Mickelson aims to bring ASU men's golf back to Phil-like glory (by Jeff Metcalfe, Arizona Republic/July 19, 2011) Coach Mickelson out to establish a golf dynasty (by Elijah Grasser, State Press/July 24, 2011) Coach Mickelson to build on brothers legacy (/April 4, 2012) Throughout the years: Tim and Phil (Photo Gallery done by asu.edu/photos provided by Mary Mickelson) Feature on Coach Mickelson from Arizona Golf Insider (Spring of 2012)
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