In October 2005, Rich Parker was promoted to head coach of the Dartmouth men’s golf team after serving as interim coach during the 2005 fall season. Parker is a former tour pro. 

Parker’s players have earned a total of 15 All-Ivy honors during his stint — seven on the first team and eight more on the second team — including Peter Williamson ’12 who won three individual titles and made the first team all four years. Three times his squad has finished as high as second at the Ivy League Championship, and twice in the past four completed seasons.

While the 2020 spring was lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team finished tied for fourth at the Ivy League Championship with two golfers — Jason Liu ’21 and classmate Sam Ohno — make the all-conference second team by tying for seventh at the championship. In 2018, the Big Green posted a terrific final round with a 3-over 283 thanks to 22 birdies, vaulting past four teams to finish as the runner-up to Yale. Ian Kelsey ’18 capped his career by earning a spot on the All-Ivy League First Team for the second time by virtue of his tie for fifth in the individual standings.

Rich Mueller begins his 18th year as the head men’s golf coach and Director of Golf at Columbia University. He took the helm of Columbia’s golf program in August 2005 and has shaped the Columbia golf program into a perennial Ivy League power.

Mueller has directed the Lions to five Ivy League team championships (four on the men’s side, one in women’s), three individual Ivy League champions or Ivy League Player of the Year award-winners, five NCAA postseason team appearances and tutored 27 All-Ivy League golfers.