Ryan Hybl – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Ryan Hybl, whose 51 tournament victories in 17 seasons at Oklahoma – including the 2017 NCAA Championship – are the sixth-most among active Division I men’s golf coaches, has been named head coach at Georgia Tech.

Hybl, a Colbert, Ga. native, is only the fifth head coach in Georgia Tech golf’s illustrious 107-year history, joining a legendary list that includes only H.E. Dennison (1931-55), Tommy Plaxico (1956-82), Puggy Blackmon (1982-95) and Bruce Heppler (1995-2026).* Hybl takes the torch from Heppler, a Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Famer who led the Yellow Jackets to 28-straight NCAA regionals, 22 NCAA finals and four national runner-up finishes in his 31 seasons at the helm.

Like Heppler, Hybl is a member of the GCAA Hall of Fame, thanks to leading Oklahoma to unprecedented success in his 17 seasons leading the Sooners (2009-26). OU’s achievements under Hybl include:

• winning the 2017 national championship;
• 51 tournament victories, including this week’s NCAA regional in Corvallis, Ore.;
• 15-consecutive NCAA finals berths – the fifth-longest streak in NCAA Division I history and the second-longest active streak in the nation;
• seven NCAA finals match play appearances from 2016-25, which were the most in the nation during that nine-year span**;
• three conference championships (Big 12 – 2018, 2022 and 2023);
• having at least one player named all-America in 14 of his first 16 seasons at the helm.

Hybl is the first head coach in Georgia Tech athletics history that won a national title as a head coach at the highest level of NCAA competition before his/her arrival on The Flats.

Making Oklahoma’s success under Hybl even more impressive is the fact that he inherited a team that finished 10^th at the 2009 Big 12 Championship and quickly transformed it into one of the nation’s top programs.

The Sooners’ feats under Hybl have led to a multitude of individual honors for the 45-year-old head coach. In addition to being inducted into the GCAA Hall of Fame in 2024, his accolades include:

• being named 2022 Dave Williams National Coach of the Year;
• earning two Big 12 Coach of the Year awards (2018 and 2021);
• serving as head coach of the United States’ 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup team.

The success started right out of the gate for Hybl at OU, as in 2009-10, he led the Sooners to a tournament victory at the Kansas Invitational, one of only 33 coaches in NCAA Division I history to win a tournament in his first season at the helm.

A year later,…