Nick Clinard will be entering his 16th year year overall as a head coach and eighth season with the Auburn men's golf team in 2016-17. The Tigers were ranked No. 1 nationally for much of the 2015-16 fall season while senior Michael Johnson was ranked No. 1 nationally in the Golfweek individual rankings and second in the Palmer Cup rankings.
Michael Johnson was named Golfweek first-team All-American, PING second-team All-American, first-team All-SEC and was a semifinalist for both the Jack Nicklaus Award and Ben Hogan Award and was on the Haskins Award Watch List. Jacob Solomon was a Freshman All-SEC selection in 2016. Johnson and Solomon were both named to the PING All-Southeast Region team.
Auburn destroyed the school's team single-season stroke average record by averaging 283.23 strokes per round in 2015 with the previous mark being 285.30 set in 2011-12. In fact, Clinard-coached teams have the four lowest averages in Tiger history.
Under Clinard, the Tigers have reached five-straight NCAA Championships while earning 21 team and 26 individual titles and bringing in the strongest recruiting classes the Tigers have seen in years.
Auburn is one of seven teams in the nation ... Florida State, Georgia, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern California the others ... who have made at least five straight NCAA Championship appearances.
Since Clinard came to Auburn in 2009, Auburn has produced seven All-Americans, eight Academic All-Americans, 16 NCAA All-Southeast Region selections and 19 All-SEC selections, including five All-SEC first-team selections, six All-SEC second team picks, seven Freshman All-SEC selections and one SEC Freshman of the Year.
In his career, Clinard has 32 tournament victories including two conference championships, coached nine All-Americans, 12 Academic All-Americans, two conference players of the year, three individual conference champions and 27 all-conference selections.
Clinard played professional golf for five seasons from 1996-2001 on the NGA Hooters Tour as well as several Nike Tour and Canadian Tour events prior to becoming head coach of UCF. He was also the assistant tournament director of the Jim McLean Future Collegians World Tour from 1998-2001 and worked as an assistant golf professional at the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in McKinney, Texas, from 1997-2000.
The Gastonia, N.C., native graduated from Wake Forest University in 1995 with a Bachelor's degree in speech communication. He played one year of collegiate golf at SMU before playing his final three years at Wake Forest from 1992-95, where the Demon Deacons were ranked in the top 10 in the nation all three seasons. Clinard is married to the former Susan Roberts, and they have two daughters, Chloe and Peyton.
Corey Maggard
Associate Head Coach
Corey Maggard enters his third season at Auburn under head coach Nick Clinard as the Tigers had the fourth best NCAA Championship finish in school history by finishing 12th in 2015 in his first season.
Maggard was a semifinalist for the Jan Strickland Award for the National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2016 as selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
The Tigers were ranked No. 1 nationally for much of the 2015-16 fall season while senior Michael Johnson was ranked No. 1 nationally in the Golfweek individual rankings and second in the Palmer Cup rankings.
Michael Johnson was named Golfweek first-team All-American, PING second-team All-American, first-team All-SEC and was a semifinalist for both the Jack Nicklaus Award and Ben Hogan Award and was on the Haskins Award Watch List. Jacob Solomon was a Freshman All-SEC selection in 2016. Johnson and Solomon were both named to the PING All-Southeast Region team.
Prior to coming to Auburn in 2014-15, Maggard won four-straight Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championships in his four years as head men's golf coach at Div. III Guilford College.
Maggard, who led Guilford to 16 tournament wins in his four seasons, was named the Jack Jensen ODAC Coach of the Year three-straight seasons from 2011-13. Guilford spent time ranked No. 1 in the nation by Golf World and in the Golfstat.com rankings in 2011 and 2012 as the Quakers finished ninth at the 2011 NCAA Div. III Championship, 11th in 2012 and 17th in both 2013 and 2014.
Guilford's Noah Ratner was selected a three-time first-team PING All-American and ODAC Golfer of the Year from 2011-13 and received the 2012 Jack Nicklaus Award as the Div. III National Player of the Year.
Maggard coached three All-Americans and had 11 golfers earn 18 All-ODAC awards, including Tanner Gross, who was a second-team PING All-American in 2014 and won the Golf Coaches Association of America's Phil Mickelson Award as Div. III's top rookie.
Prior to Guilford, Maggard spent two seasons as the assistant golf coach at Transylvania under Brian Lane. He was a semifinalist for the GCAA's 2010 Jan Strickland Award, which is given annually to the assistant from all levels in college golf who excels in working with student-athletes on the course and in the classroom.
Transylvania won the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference title and earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Div. III Tournament in 2009 and 2010. The Pioneers featured the HCAC's top golfer both seasons and had nine all-conference selections during his coaching tenure.
Maggard was a four-year letterman at Transylvania from 2005-08, was a three-time All-HCAC selection and helped lead the Pioneers to the HCAC Championship and a pair of NCAA Championship appearances in 2007 and 2008. He was the runner-up at the 2006 HCAC Tournament while finishing third as both a junior and senior. Maggard won the 2007 Anderson Spring Invitational and the 2005 Transylvania Spring Invitational and served four years on the student-athlete advisory committee.
Maggard spent four years as an assistant golf professional at the Man O'War Golf Learning Center in Lexington, Ky., and is a Level Two Titleist Performance Institute Certified Golf Professional. He also worked as a golf operations assistant at the Gulf Stream Golf Club in Delray Beach, Fla.
Maggard earned his B.A. degree in business management from Transylvania in 2008. He is married to the former Katie Young of Lexington, Ky.
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