Sam Carmichael (2015) - Indiana University Athletics Hall of Fame

Sam Carmichael

Induction:
2015

Sam Carmichael served as men’s golf coach from 1990-98 and women’s golf coach from 1981-2004. As men’s coach, he won Big Ten titles in 1991 and 1998 and was Big Ten Coach of the Year in both of those years. As women’s coach, Carmichael led IU to seven Big Ten championships and earned NCAA Tournament berths nine times, where he had a pair of top 10 finishes and finished inside the top 20 each time. He mentored 14 All-Americans and seven Big Ten Players of the Year during his tenure. Carmichael earned seven Big Ten Coach of the Year honors, four NCAA Regional Coach of the Year accolades and the 1987 NCAA National Coach of the Year award. In his career at IU, he coached two Big Ten men’s medalists and six Big Ten women’s medalists. As a professional, he played full-time on the PGA Tour from 1962 through 1969 and competed in seven U.S. Open Championships and the 1962 Masters Tournament. He would go on to be named Indiana PGA Player of the Year in 1972 and was inducted into the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame the following year. He was also a 1998 inductee into the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame and received the Bill Orwig Award in 1999 for outstanding contributions made by a non-alumnus to the IU Department of Athletics. Carmichael has owned the Martinsville Golf Club since 1969.