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GEORGE BOUTELL
1965-1967/INDUCTED 1981
Boutell was the first ASU player to make first-team All-America in golf, 1966. He was the Amateur Golfer of the Year in 1965 as selected by all four national golfing publications. He was also the Arizona Amateur Champion, 1962, and the Eastern Amateur Trans-Mississippi and Tucker Collegiate Invitational Champion, 1965. He became the ASU Golf Coach in 1975. He passed away in September of 2018.
ALEJANDRO CANIZARES
2002-06/INDUCTED 2017
Alejandro Canizares became the sixth freshman to win the NCAA Individual Golf Championship in June of 2003 with a 1-under 298 at the Karsten Creek Course in Stillwater, Okla. By the end of his Sun Devil career, Canizares had earned back-to-back Pac-10 Player of the Year honors (2005, co-2006) and four All-America selections (First-Team 2003, 2006; Third-Team 2004, 2005), the fourth Sun Devil to earn four All-America honors. He posted 22 top-10 finishes in his ASU career and won six tournaments. He set Palmer Cup career marks in victories (13) and singles record (8-0) and earned the Arnold Palmer Award in 2003. The Madrid, Spain, native played on the PGA TOUR and also won two European Tour titles. He earned back-to-back CoSIDA Academic All-America honors (2005-06) and finished his Sun Devil career by earning his interdisciplinary studies degree with concentration in sociology and landscaping in May 2006 with a 3.87 grade point average.
JIM CARTER
1981-1984/INDUCTED 1995
A 1995 ASU Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Carter became ASU's first NCAA men's golf champion in 1983. During that year he also captured medalist honors at the Southwest Amateur and was a first-team All-Pac-10 and first-team All-American selection. In 1984, he earned All-Pac-10 and All-American honors and also was medalist at the Arizona Intercollegiate and the Sun Devil-Phoenix Thunderbird Invitational.
PAUL CASEY
1997-2000/INDUCTED 2010
Casey was a three-time Pac-10 men's golf champion and three-time All-American during his time at Arizona State. He shot a 67 in the final round in the 2000 Pac-10 Men's Golf Championship to break Tiger Woods conference par-72 mark and win his third straight Pac-10 title. Casey also led ASU to its sixth-straight league title in 2000, as the Sun Devils shot 56-under 1,384 (339-351-342-352) to also set Pac-10 records for low score and best score under par. He finished at 23-under 265 (66-65-67-67) and broke Woods' 18-under 270 set in the 1996 Championships at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach, Calif. (61-65-73-71). Paul shot a 15-under 265 at the Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle on the par-70 course in 1999, including a NCAA record 60 in the final round. Casey ended his career with six championships, tied for third on the ASU wins list as he passed 1993 NCAA Champion Todd Demsey, who had five. The Gloucestershire England native currently has 11 wins since joining the PGA tour in 2000.
TODD DEMSEY
1992-1995/INDUCTED 2006
Todd Demsey was the 1993 NCAA Champion, a four-time All-American and a three-time first-team Pac-10 selection (1993-1995)
He participated at the 1994 United States World Amateur, the 1993 Walker Cup and won six collegiate tournaments. He earned the 1994 Pac-10 Player of the Year and won the 1993 Pacific Coast Amateur Champion and the 1993 Southern California Amateur Champion. In 1994, he recorded eight top-10 finishes in 14 appearances and compiled 71.90 stroke average. In 1993, he posted eight top-10 finishes in 11 appearances and a team-low 71.70 stroke average.
DAN FORSMAN
1978-1981/INDUCTED 1992
Dan Forsman followed a season in which he was a first-team All-Pac-10 and third-team All-American selection in 1980 by becoming the Pac-10 Co-Player of the year in 1981. He was named to the first-team Pac-10 Conference and second-team All-American squads and earned conference medalist honors in his final season. He was inducted into ASU's Hall of Fame in 1992.
BOB GILDER
1972-1974/INDUCTED 1979
The Western Athletic Conference golf champion in 1973, he was selected three times to the All-WAC teams and once to the All-America squad. He became a PGA professional in 1975 and went on to become only the fourth player in PGA history to earn more than $100,000 in his first season. His first tournament victory was in Arizona as he captured the 1976 Phoenix Open crown. Gilder was a runner-up for the PGA Rookie of the Year title in 1976. He has finished among the top 60 PGA money winners since turning professional, finishing 36th among 283 PGA golfers in 1978. He entered 31 tournaments in 1978, placed among the top ten in eight of them, earned money in 23, and had a 71.9 stroke average per round.
CHRIS HANELL
1993-1997/INDUCTED 2013
Hanell was a three-time All-American, including a first team honoree in 1996-97, and helped lead the Sun Devils to the 1996 NCAA Championship. He was a part of three Pac-10 Championship teams and two NCAA Regional Championships. A First-Team Pac-10 All-Academic selection in 1995-96 and 1996-97, Hanell also received the Golfstat Cup in 1997 recognizing the college player with the lowest stroke average. He finished in the top 10 nationally as an individual in each of his four years and finished his collegiate career at ASU in 1997 by receiving the Golfweek and Golfstat Collegiate Player of the Year Awards. Throughout his career, he played in 58 tournaments and had a 71.44 stroke average with 24 rounds in the 60s. His 179 career rounds played represents the second most in the past 20 seasons of Sun Devil golf. Hanell graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in 1997.
RANDY LEIN
HEAD COACH 1993-2011/INDUCTED 2015
Randy Lein, who coached with USC from 1984-92 and Arizona State from 1993-2011, was named the Pac-12 Men's Golf Coach of the Century. Lein guided the Sun Devils to 44 tournament victories, eight Pacific-10 Championships, five NCAA West Regional wins and 10 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including the title in 1996. ASU notched solid NCAA finishes with fifth-place showings in 1999, 1998, 1997 (tie) and 2009 (tie), a fourth-place finish in 1995, sixth-place finishes in 1993, 2001 and 2003 and a ninth-place finish in 1994. He won Pacific-10 Conference Coach of the Year honors five times at ASU and also twice while at USC. Lein is part of the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame and the Sun Devil Athletics Hall of Fame. His teams from 1995-2000 put together a steak of six straight Pac-10 titles, a streak that couldn't be matched until 2019, and that would be if current three-time defending champion Stanford wins the next three titles. How impressive is the six-peat? During ASU's domination for over half a decade of the course, Notah Begay, Tiger Woods, Joel Kribel, Ted Purdy, Rory Sabbatini, Ricky Barnes and Casey Martin were some of the standouts who never won a Pac-10 team title because of the likes of Paul Casey, Jeff Quinney, Chris Hannell and Scott Johnson, just to name a few. He passed away in December of 2019.
STEVE LOY
HEAD COACH 1987-1992/INDUCTED 2002
Steve Loy coached the Arizona State program for six seasons (1987-1992). Led men's program to its first national title in 1990 and also who won two Pac-10 titles (1989 and 1990) and tied for 1991 NCAA West regional title. Mentored Phil Michelson as he won 16 collegiate events, including three NCAA titles and coached 10 Sun Devils to 20 All-American honors. Won Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1989 and 1990 and led ASU to 26 team titles wins in his tenure and had 25 medalists. Loy's teams won four straight Thunderbird Invitational titles (1989-92) in his final four years. A 1991 inductee into the Athletic Hall of Honors at Eastern New Mexico, where he graduated from in 1974, and a 1992 inductee into the National Junior College Coaches Hall of Fame. Coached at Scottsdale Community College from 1975-83 and at Arkansas from 1983-87 before coming to Arizona State.
BILL MANN
HEAD COACH 1961-75 and 1987/INDUCTED 2000
Bill Mann built a legacy in his fifteen years as head coach. From 1961-1975 and 1987, Mann brought home 26 team titles, including conference championships in 1969 and 1971. He led ASU to seven top-10 finishes in the NCAAs, including a third-place finish in 1969. His squads earned fifth-place NCAA finishes in 1966, and 1972. He passed away in the spring of 2017.
BILLY MAYFAIR
1985-1988 /INDUCTED 1998
Mayfair was a four-time All Pac-10 First-Team Conference selection (1985-1988). He is the first golfer ever to win both U.S. Public Links (1986) and U.S. Amateur (1987). He is an ASU four-time All-American (1985-1988), earning First-Team accolades twice, Pac-10, NCAA and Golf Coaches Association of America's Player of the Year in 1987. He was the winner of the Haskins Award that same year. He placed in the top 10 in 12 tournaments, and secured the Amateur Title in the Pac-Northwest and Pac-Coast Tournaments in 1987-88.
PHIL MICKELSON
1988-1992/INDUCTED 2002
Mickelson is regarded as the best amateur golfer of all-time and won 16 collegiate tournaments including NCAA titles in 1989, 1990 and 1992 and was a four-time first-team All-American. He led ASU to its first NCAA crown in men's golf in 1990 and earned a degree in psychology in 1992. He also won the U.S. Amateur in 1990. He shot a collegiate career-low 63 in the first round of the 1992 NCAA Championships and also earned the 1990 Porter Cup title, the 1992 Dave Williams Award Winner and was Pac-10 Player of the Year three times (1990-92) including Pac-10 medalist in 1990. He won the Haskins Award (coaches' vote) winner three times (1990-92) and the Nicklaus Award Winner (tournament finishes) three times (1990-92). Became first player to win back-to-back NCAA men's golf titles since Scott Simpson of USC in 1976-77. Five others to accomplish the feat were: Ben Crenshaw of Texas (1971-72), Dick Crawford of Houston (1959-60), G.T. Dunlap of Princeton (1903-31), Fred Lampbrecht of Tulane (1925-26), Dexter Cummings of Yale (1923-24).
MIKE MORLEY
1964-1968/INDUCTED 1983
A first-team All-America in 1968, he set an NCAA Championship nine-hole record of 30 (6 under par) at Las Cruces, NM. In 1967, he won the Sun Devil Classic and reached the quarter-finals of the United States Amateur Championship - automatically winning a spot in the 1968 Masters. A two-time All-Western Athletic Conference selection, he joined the PGA Tour after completing his collegiate career.
TOM PURTZER
1970-1973/INDUCTED 1989
Tom Purtzer, who earned his PGA membership in 1975, won the 1971 and 1973 Arizona Collegiate. A member of Arizona State's golf teams from 1970-73, he was inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 1989 and was a second-team All-American in 1973.
JEFF QUINNEY
1997-200 /INDUCTED 2012
The 2000 U.S. Amateur Champion, Quinney played in the 2000 Masters, 2001 U.S. Open and 2001 British Open as an amateur at ASU. He was a second-team All-American in 1999 and 2001, and earned honorable mention All-America honors in his freshman season (1998) after tying for 11th at the 1998 NCAA Championships in Albuquerque. He earned first team All-Pac-10 recognition three times (1999-2001) and played on three Pac-10 championship teams (1998, 1999 and 2000). Quinney set an ASU Karsten Golf Course record with a 62 on April 18, 1999, in the final round of the ASU Thunderbird/SAVANE Invitational as he took home medalist honors. He became the first Sun Devil to win the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Amateur sinceTodd Kernaghan when he won the 1998 title and then he won it again in the summer of 2000. He also won the 2001 UNLV Rebel Classic and was a medalist at the 1999 NCAA West Regional in Tucson.
CHEZ REAVIE
2001-2004/INDUCTED 2015
Chez Reavie earned three All-American honors, including second-team honors in 2004 and honorable mentions in both 2001 and 2003, in his time in Tempe. He finished his career with 22 Top-10 finishes in 43 collegiate events and a 72.05 stroke average. In 2001, Reavie won the U.S. Public Links Championships, joining Billy Mayfair (1986) and John Jackson, Jr. (1969) as the only Sun Devils to win the title. Reavie, only 19 at the time, earned a trip to the 2002 Masters by way of his 2001 Public Links title. During his senior season in 2004, Reavie earned four top-5 finishes, one of which was second at the Pac-10 Championships. In his career at ASU he had two NCAA Championship Top-10 finishes, finishing fourth as a freshman in 2001 and ninth as a junior in 2003.
HOWARD TWITTY
1970-1972/INDUCTED 1978
Twitty was an All-American first team in 1970 and 1972, and second team in 1971. He was a runner-up in the 1972 NCAA Championship Tournament. He was rated the number three amateur in the country in 1970. He was All-Western Athletic Conference for three years. Twitty was the Porter Cup Champion in 1970, and finished second in the Tucson Open in 1976 as well. He was the winner of the Thailand Open in 1975.