National Champion Hybl Named Georgia Tech Golf Head Coach – Men’s Golf — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – 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.

“We’re ecstatic to welcome Ryan, Rebecca, Ady and Harper to the Georgia Tech family,” Georgia Tech vice president and director of athletics Ryan Alpert said. “It’s a significant statement for Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech golf and the legacy that Coach Bruce Heppler built in his 31 seasons on The Flats that a coach of Coach Hybl’s caliber and experience has accepted the opportunity to lead this program. We couldn’t be more grateful to Coach Heppler and all of his student-athletes that have made Georgia Tech golf one of the nation’s premier programs and we couldn’t be more excited for Coach Hybl to lead it into its next era.”

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…