Elizabeth Davis has led the Amherst College women’s golf team since 2016 and became head coach of the men’s golf team in 2020. Her Mammoths won the NESCAC Women’s Golf Championship for the first time in program history in 2022, earning the Mammoths their third trip to the NCAA Division III Championships in Davis’ six-year tenure (no championship was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

Davis was honored as both the NESCAC Women’s Golf Coach of the Year and the WGCA Division III East Region Coach of the Year for the second time in 2022 after a season in which the Mammoths won three tournaments, including both the NESCAC Fall Qualifier and the NESCAC Championship. At the NCAA Championships, the Mammoths finished 12th in the nation as Jessica Huang ’25 carded a 68 in the final round to match the lowest round in tournament history. Amherst swept the NESCAC’s major awards as Huang was named Rookie of the Year and Gihoe Seo ’25 earned Golfer of the Year honors, while both Huang and Seo were also named All-Americans.

John Sjoberg was named Emory University’s head golf coach coach following the conclusion of the 2011 season. He took over for Mike Phillips who announced his retirement after 28 years as the head man of the Eagles’ program.

Through all of that upheaval and uncertainty of 2020-21, Emory men’s golf played in five tournaments and posted four top-five finishes.  In addition, the Eagles of Head Coach John Sjoberg made the program’s fifth straight appearance in the NCAA D-III Championships where it posted a sixth-place finish, the school’s 11th-ever top-10 ten finish. Sjoberg saw two of his players, Max Schwarz and Davis Hingtgen, both land PING All-America acclaim.  Schwarz earned a first-team berth, Emory’s first-such honoree since 2012 (Ryan Dagerman), after pacing the team in scoring average with a mark of 72.6 strokes over 14 rounds. Hingtgen garnered an honorable-mention spot on the All-America Team after logging 74.4 strokes over his 14 rounds.

Head Coach Dan Wesley returned to his alma mater in 2007 to take over the Yellowjacket golf program and recently completed his 15th season as head coach in 2021-22.
 
Wesley has guided the ‘Jackets to 22 tournament victories, 30 runner-ups, and 77 top three finishes in 130 events.

During 2021-22, Wesley’s Yellowjackets had a school record four All-Region honorees in Nishant Datta, Brendan Frain, Tom Liu and Lewis Raboy. UR captured tournament titles at the Nazareth Invitational and UR Fred Kravetz Invitational and placed seventh of 30 teams in a extremely tough field at the Jekyll Island Invitational, shooting a team-record 864 for a 54-hole event. Rochester also had two All-UAA and three All-Liberty League recipients.

In 2020-21, Declan Hickton was named a GCAA Honorable Mention All-American, the sixth (third player) under Wesley’s watch on the River Campus. He was selected as an individual to compete at the NCAA Division III Championships and placed in the top half of the field. Hickton, along with Tom Liu were named All-Region, All-UAA and All-Liberty League.

The Bulldogs had three runner-up finishes: ERAU Fall Invitational (Oct. 12), SCIAC Tournament No. 1 (Feb. 27), and the SCIAC Championships (Apr. 26). During the season the Bulldogs got as high as No. 18 in the national rankings. Kyle Sharp was named the SCIAC Golfer of the Week (Mar. 15) as was Joshua Fambro (Apr. 11).

Fambro and Sharp were named to the All-SCIAC First Team and Jared Stone was named to the second team.

Zantua brings nearly 12 years of working, teaching, and coaching in the golf industry. Currently a registered PGA Apprentice, he is on his way to becoming a PGA Member through additional education and training. He strives to become a certified PGA Professional while sharing his love for the game of golf.