Tyler Schmutz - Men's Golf Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Tyler Schmutz

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
tschmutz@iu.edu
Phone:
(812) 856-4317

Tyler Schmutz was named the assistant men's golf coach on July 1, 2022. The 2024-25 season will be his third with the Hoosiers.

In the 2023-24 season, his second with the program, the Hoosiers earned two tournament victories and five top-3 finishes. IU placed sixth at the Big Ten Championship and advanced to the NCAA West Lafayette Regional, the fourth-straight season with an NCAA appearance. For the second-consecutive campaign, the Hoosiers we led by senior Drew Salyers, an All-Big Ten Second Team selection. He posted a team-low stroke average of 71.76, the fifth-lowest single-season mark in program history. Freshman Cole Starnes compiled a stroke average of 73.05, the third-lowest single-season mark by a freshman in program history.

In his debut season with Indiana, Junior Drew Salyers provided the 2022-23 season with many highlights, including a PING All-American Honorable Mention nod from the Golf Coaches Association of America. Salyers qualified as an individual for the NCAA Championship and was named to both the All-Big Ten First Team and an NCAA Division I PING All-Midwest honoree. Salyers posted a memorable season with two individual victories and a stroke average of 71.82, the sixth lowest in program history. Fifth-year senior Mitch Davis was also tabbed an All-Midwest honoree and claimed All-Big Ten Second Team Distinctions. Schmutz helped lead Indiana to a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships, the program’s highest finish in a decade. The Hoosiers were selected for the NCAA Auburn Regional, earning postseason play for the third-straight season. IU finished seventh in Auburn.

Schmutz joined the Indiana program after spending the 2021-22 season with the Maryland Terrapins. The Terps finished third at the Big Ten Championships, just two strokes out of the title spot.

Prior to his stint with Maryland, Schmutz served as the head coach of the Wabash Little Giants for two seasons. During his time in Crawfordsville the squad broke the team scoring average record in 2019-20, broke the single-round team scoring record in 2021, finished fourth in the North Coast Athletic Conference in 2021 (best finish for a Wabash team since 2009), and had two players named to All-Conference honors.

Before Wabash, Schmutz was the assistant coach at Regis University (Division II) in Denver from 2017-19. In that position, he organized and conducted practices, worked with individual players, and oversaw the team’s strength and conditioning program, among other duties.

Prior to working at Regis, he was the Director of Client Management for GSE Worldwide, where he managed logistics for players on the PGA and Korn Ferry tours.

Schmutz graduated from Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. in 2014. He earned a Master of Science degree in organizational leadership from Regis in May 2019. In 2013, he earned Cleveland Golf Srixon Scholar All-America honors and attended Parkland College in Champaign, Ill. prior to attending Huntingdon, where he was a PING All-Central Region selection.