The Texas Longhorns men's golf team has a strong golf tradition, dating back to their first season in 1927. Since then they have won national titles back-to-back in 1971 and 1972, again in 2012 and the most recent in 2022, and finished runner-up six other times (1949, 1983, 1989, 1994, 2016, 2019). Individual national champions were Ed White (1935), Ben Crenshaw (1971, 1972, and 1973), Tom Kite (1972), and Justin Leonard (1994). Longhorns who have won the U.S. Amateur include Justin Leonard and

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. Two-time

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champion and three-time major winner Jordan Spieth played for the Longhorns golf team in 2011 and 2012. Besides

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-winners Kite, Crenshaw, Leonard, Brooks, Spieth, and Scheffler, a number of other former Longhorn players have gone on to win on the PGA Tour, including: Phil Blackmar, Mark Brooks, Jhonattan Vegas, Bob Estes, Wes Ellis,

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, Cody Gribble, Rik Massengale, Scottie Scheffler,

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, and Brandel Chamblee. In addition, Longhorns

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and

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have each achieved multiple wins on the European Tour. Legendary golf instructor Harvey Penick was a long-time coach at Texas. The team is currently coached by John Fields.

Yearly record

Source

Individual champions

NCAA

Texas has had 4 individuals claim the NCAA Individual Championship on 5 occasions, with a tie in 1972.

Conference

Texas has had 31 separate golfers win a conference title on 39 separate occasions, 3 of which were a shared title.

National honors

Source : US Amateur Champions :*1992 – Justin Leonard :*1999 –

: US Junior Amateur Champions :*2000 – Matt Rosenfeld :*2009 – Jordan Spieth :*2011 – Jordan Spieth : Western Amateur Champions :*1968 – Rik Massengale :*1973 – Ben Crenshaw :*1992 – Justin Leonard :*1993 – Justin Leonard :*2002 – John Klauk :*2018 – Cole Hammer : Walker Cup Selections :*

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

– Ed White :*

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

– Tom Kite :*

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

– Justin Leonard :*

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

–

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

–

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

– Jordan Spieth :*

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

– Beau Hossler :*

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

–

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, Scottie Scheffler : Palmer Cup Selections :*

–

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

– John Klauk :*

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

– Jason Hartwick :*

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

– Jason Hartwick :*

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

– Matt Rosenfeld :*

– Beau Hossler :*

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

–

– Doug Ghim :*

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

– Cole Hammer : Fred Haskins Award :*1971 – Ben Crenshaw :*1972 – Ben Crenshaw :*1973 – Ben Crenshaw :*1987 – Bob Estes :*1994 – Justin Leonard :*1997 –

:*2016 – Beau Hossler :Phil Mickelson Award :*2013 –

:*2015 – Scottie Scheffler :Byron Nelson Award :*2012 –

: Jack Nicklaus Award :*1988 – Bob Estes :*1994 – Justin Leonard :*1997 –

:*2015 – Beau Hossler : Ben Hogan Award :*1997 – Jeff Fahrenbruch :*2018 –

:Arnold Palmer Award :*1994 – Justin Leonard :COSIDA Academic All-American :*1996 – Jeff Fahrenbruch ''(1st Team)'') :*1997 – Jeff Fahrenbruch ''(2nd Team)'') :*2012 –

''(3rd Team)'')

References