E-mail Coach Baughan (jmb72@cornell.edu)
Matt Baughan enters his sixth year as the head men's golf coach at Cornell and the head golf professional at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course. Under his direction, the Big Red has slowly climbed up the Ivy League as one of the most consistent teams on the East Coast.
In 2004-05, Baughan helped lead the Big Red to a second-place finish at the Ivy championship, its highest finish ever. Freshman Robbie Fritz was named first-team All-Ivy, the second straight year a Big Red golfer made the team after going 16 years without one. The team finished in the top 10 in all eight tournaments it competed in, including runner-up finishes at the Colgate Invitational, the Bucknell Invitational and the Ivy League championship. In all, Cornell has finished in the top 10 in 25 tournaments in Baughan's first five years as head coach.
As head golf pro at Cornell, Baughan is responsible for all of the day-to-day operations of the Robert Trent Jones Course, overseeing the physical education program for golf and running the varsity team.
Baughan served as the interim head professional and interim head golf coach from April of 2000 until November of 2000. Prior to that, Baughan served as the first assistant golf pro at Cornell beginning in 1997. As the assistant, he instructed physical education classes and supervised scheduled golf course personnel.
Prior to his arrival in Ithaca, Baughan was the assistant golf professional at Persimmon Hill Golf Course in Tampa, Fla., from 1996 to 1997. He directed all inventory of merchandise and provided individual and group lessons. He also served as assistant golf pro at Laurel View Country Club in Hamden, Conn., in 1994. At Laurel View, Baughan was responsible for directing all pro shop sales and buying, as well as scheduling staff and the planning and execution of tournaments.
A 1993 graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in business administration and marketing, Baughan was a professional tournament player from 1994 to 1997 on the Moonlight Golf Tour, winning the Pine Barons at the World Woods tournaments in both April and December of 1995.
