The Golf Coaches Association of America announced Tuesday its selections for the 2022 Hall of Fame class.
Mark Crabtree, David Lynn, Bill Montigel and Chris Young will be inducted at the GCAA Hall of Fame Reception and Awards Dinner on Dec. 5 in Las Vegas.
Crabtree’s coaching career began at Colorado State, where he took it from a non-scholarship program into a top-25 team and NCAA Championship contender in his nine seasons. CSU qualified for four consecutive NCAA Regionals and qualified for its first NCAA Championship appearance in 1999. Crabtree then took the head job at Louisville until he retired in 2020. He was the first coach in school history to lead the program into postseason play, appearing in 11 NCAA Regionals and advancing to four NCAA Championships. He won 30 tournaments, including three Big East titles, and had 23 individual medalists. Crabtree was a 2006 Colorado Hall of Fame inductee.
Lynn started with the Oklahoma Christian golf program in 1998 as an assistant and took the head job the next year, a position he help until 2008. Lynn came back in 2011 and led OC to the NAIA national championship. In the fall of 2012, he guided OC to the National Christian College Athletic Association national title. OC strung together a run of 16 straight top-four finishes in national-tournament play (either the NAIA or NCCAA Championship), a streak that began in 2000 and lasted through the 2015-16 campaign. Since being eligible for NCAA Division II postseason play in 2016, the Eagles have advanced to five Super Regionals and two national championship appearances. Their runner-up finish in 2022 is the highest finish by an Oklahoma Christian team in any sport in NCAA competition.
Montigel is in his 36th season leading TCU. He spent eight years as the Horned Frogs’ top men’s basketball recruiter and assistant coach prior to leading the men’s golf program. Montigel has helped TCU finish in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships 13 times. TCU has made 31 straight NCAA Regionals. Montigel is the only coach in any sport to be named coach of the year in four different NCAA Division I conferences.
In his 23rd season, Young continues to raise the bar for the Hutchinson Community College. After winning the program’s first NJCAA team national championship in 2021, Young and the Blue Dragons repeated as national champions in 2022. Hutchinson has tallied 21 consecutive NJCAA Tournament appearances, 13 PING All-Americans, 10 Jayhawk Conference titles, 10 NJCAA Tournament top-10 finishes, nine Jayhawk Conference individual champions, and two Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award recognitions, among others.
