Golf Digest: Which college football head coach is the best golfer? This poll has the answer (9. PJ Fleck, Minnesota, 10.8 handicap)

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Per Golf Digest:

he 2024 college football season is nearly upon us. This weekend, Week 0 begins in Dublin with a showdown of legendary Irish programs [cough, hack, wheeeeeze] Florida State and Georgia Tech. That means ball coaches all across this great football nation will soon be hanging up their sticks for their summer. It’s sure to be a bittersweet day for them, but which sideline czar will miss golf most as fall begins? Action Network’s Brett McMurphy may have the answer, polling dozens of college football head coaches to find out, once and for all, who is the nation’s best head coach golfer. The answer will absolutely surprise you.
Head Coach - Handicap Index
  1. Trent Dilfer, UAB - 0.1
  2. Hugh Freeze, Auburn - 4.6
  3. Jason Candle, Toledo - 5.6
  4. Rhett Lashlee, SMU - 8
  5. Shane Beamer, S. Carolina - 8.2
  6. Brian Kelly, LSU - 10
  7. Lincoln Riley, USC - 10.1
  8. Dave Doeren, NC State - 10.4
  9. P.J. Fleck, Minnesota - 10.8
  10. Joey McGuire, T. Tech - 11.7
  11. Ryan Day, Ohio State - 12.1
  12. Mack Brown, UNC - 12.3
  13. Eric Morris, North Texas - 12.5
  14. Thomas Hammock, NIU - 12.6
  15. Mike Houston, E. Carolina - 12.6
  16. Kirby Smart, Georgia - 12.6
  17. Ryan Walters, Purdue - 13.2
  18. Sonny Dykes, TCU - 13.9
  19. Kyle Whittingham, Utah - 14.2
  20. Gus Malzahn, UCF - 14.9
  21. Chuck Martin, Miami (OH) - 15
  22. Kevin Wilson, Tulsa - 15
  23. Tim Beck, C. Carolina - 16.3
  24. Dan Lanning, Oregon - 16.7
  25. Mark Stoops, Kentucky - 17
  26. Kalen DeBoer, Alabama - 17.9
  27. Josh Heupel, Tennessee - 18.6
  28. Jay Norvell, Colorado State - 20.5
  29. Bill O'Brien, Boston College - 20.7
  30. Trent Bray, Oregon State - 21
  31. Matt Rhule, Nebraska - 21.1
  32. Pat Narduzzi, Pitt - 24.6
www.golfdigest.com

Which college football head coach is the best golfer? This poll has the answer

This Action Network poll might be the most important ranking since the BCS.
www.golfdigest.com www.golfdigest.com

Go Gophers!!
 


Fun to see. I bet Rhule lies about his scores regularly.
 

Hammock’s body type is atypical for a mid 80s shooter but sometimes those dudes bomb and gouge, bomb and gouge.
 

Spaulding!No! said:
Hammock’s body type is atypical for a mid 80s shooter but sometimes those dudes bomb and gouge, bomb and gouge.
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Plenty of dudes look like that on the tour. Aphirbarnrat looks like the before in a weight loss commercial. Lumpy is literally called Lumpy
 



I'm impressed. Hell, I'm blown away.

With all the time demands on any head coach, how can they sneak away to play often enough to maintain a decent handicap?
 

You know these guys are competitive and talk about their handicap. One reason I say that is that during SEC media days they had this thing where they were asking the coach they were interviewing if they had a question to ask for the next coach coming up. In this case, Mark Stoops (Kent @ 17) was like hey Hugh (Freeze - Auburn), how low did you get that handicap this summer? Apparently, it's 4.6.
 
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I'm very surprised PJ has the patience to golf. Maybe he gets 5AM tee times with a souped up cart and he's done by 6 something.
 

BleedGopher said:
Per Golf Digest:

he 2024 college football season is nearly upon us. This weekend, Week 0 begins in Dublin with a showdown of legendary Irish programs [cough, hack, wheeeeeze] Florida State and Georgia Tech. That means ball coaches all across this great football nation will soon be hanging up their sticks for their summer. It’s sure to be a bittersweet day for them, but which sideline czar will miss golf most as fall begins? Action Network’s Brett McMurphy may have the answer, polling dozens of college football head coaches to find out, once and for all, who is the nation’s best head coach golfer. The answer will absolutely surprise you.
Head Coach - Handicap Index
  1. Trent Dilfer, UAB - 0.1
  2. Hugh Freeze, Auburn - 4.6
  3. Jason Candle, Toledo - 5.6
  4. Rhett Lashlee, SMU - 8
  5. Shane Beamer, S. Carolina - 8.2
  6. Brian Kelly, LSU - 10
  7. Lincoln Riley, USC - 10.1
  8. Dave Doeren, NC State - 10.4
  9. P.J. Fleck, Minnesota - 10.8
  10. Joey McGuire, T. Tech - 11.7
  11. Ryan Day, Ohio State - 12.1
  12. Mack Brown, UNC - 12.3
  13. Eric Morris, North Texas - 12.5
  14. Thomas Hammock, NIU - 12.6
  15. Mike Houston, E. Carolina - 12.6
  16. Kirby Smart, Georgia - 12.6
  17. Ryan Walters, Purdue - 13.2
  18. Sonny Dykes, TCU - 13.9
  19. Kyle Whittingham, Utah - 14.2
  20. Gus Malzahn, UCF - 14.9
  21. Chuck Martin, Miami (OH) - 15
  22. Kevin Wilson, Tulsa - 15
  23. Tim Beck, C. Carolina - 16.3
  24. Dan Lanning, Oregon - 16.7
  25. Mark Stoops, Kentucky - 17
  26. Kalen DeBoer, Alabama - 17.9
  27. Josh Heupel, Tennessee - 18.6
  28. Jay Norvell, Colorado State - 20.5
  29. Bill O'Brien, Boston College - 20.7
  30. Trent Bray, Oregon State - 21
  31. Matt Rhule, Nebraska - 21.1
  32. Pat Narduzzi, Pitt - 24.6
www.golfdigest.com

Which college football head coach is the best golfer? This poll has the answer

This Action Network poll might be the most important ranking since the BCS.
www.golfdigest.com www.golfdigest.com

Go Gophers!!
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This means that back in my prime, on my best day of golf, and a couple of my signature ‘ball bounces off the tree onto the fairway’, I’d have a chance to beat PJ.
 

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